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Dear friends and comrades in loitering With a heavy heart and much regret I’m cancelling today’s in person meet-up. I’m heeding travel warnings and also looking out of the window with some alarm and I …

By C. D. Rose. Zsuzanna Gahse, Mountainish, tr. Katy Derbyshire (Prototype, 2024) Zsuzsanna Gahse’s Mountainish is a slim book with short, numbered sections rather than chapters, and whose blurb promises the reader ‘a multi-layered typology …

SEGURA, Alain. Une saison avec Marianne: la dernière surréaliste. Bassac: Plein chant (coll. « La font secrète »), 2022 SEGURA, Alain. A Season with Marianne: The Last Surrealist. Trans. Bill Brown. Brooklyn: Common Notions, Dec. …

Hakobune‘s guitar is processed like one hundred Guthries, ringing with reverb abandon as chords stretch into warm, elongated vibrations. The 2019 album Rain Studies is a full-spectrum affair; it alternately plays and washes away intruding …

Over the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with painting in watercolours using my AxiDraw plotter. Watercolour is a medium I enjoy painting in (by hand) as a personal hobby, kind of separate from my …

I’ve had this idea on my mind for a while, and finally got around to bashing out a first go at the lyrics the other day, along with a demo. When an idea won’t go …

In 1856, a curious volume appeared for sale in the bookshop of Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Overend on Cincinnati’s Fourth Street. The title of the book was “Green Peas Picked from The Patch of Invisible …

I recently took a trip to the Yukon (and two days in Alaska) with my partner Elaine. The trip was mostly hiking focused and generally enjoying the nature. We took almost two weeks which was …

And now their watch has ended. Sleep soundly, Silvia and Rocky 🫡 🔗 ∙ Tagged in Gear, Notes.

About a year or so ago, Manuel Moreale wrote a post called I’ll read it. In it, he made a simple offer to anybody who was on the fence about starting their own blog because …

All-in-all 2024 has not been a very productive year in terms of artwork - mainly because of too much time and headspace spent in moving to a new home in Hastings, on top of my …

Solstice greetings to all! Here’s a sampling of my recently published writing: * Names of the year for 2024 (Moo Deng, Shohei Ohtani, Piper, and more) Words of the year for 2024 (BlueAnon, snoafer, X-odus, …

Some of the most impressive churches and historical sites are found along the Camino de Santiago routes that twist through the length of Europe. While tourists and pilgrims alike will be drawn to the grand …

Chapter 5 of The Staff Engineer’s Path is going to be about leading big projects, the kind that involve a lot of teams, or where the stakes are high, or the path forward is ambiguous–or …

I've a written a new book. It's a children's book and it's called A Riddle for a King. It's suitable for those aged between about eight and twelve, although it has been rigorously tested on …