Sky River Dolls
By Vega.
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Selfie
The shortest one asks the tallest one to take a photo. Prompted by a DoA games thread!
a man and his hoe
every chick deservers a mother.
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The Meaning of Life
This was a good spring for cherry blossoms. We had many sunny days when the trees were in bloom in April. On a day like that it’s easy to think the meaning of life is …
Keep Your Powder Dry
English Civil War wargaming, British Civil Wars, Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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Houses of Interest: Lincolnshire
The #ECWtravelogue has dipped its toe into Lincolnshire, gateway to the heartlands of the Eastern Association, and the important ports connecting England to the Low Countries. Make yourself a cup of tea and settle back …
Notes from a Room
By Peter Holm Jensen.
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Some of Simone Weil’s metaphors
We must rediscover the idea of the metaphor which is real. — First and Last Notebooks Gravity and Grace (tr. Crawford): – Any attempt to gain this deliverance by means of my own energy would …
By notesfromaroom, 875 words
the urban prehistorian
the contemporary archaeology of prehistory.
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Lot 172
Me, tracing my fingers in and out of the coarse surface of cupmarks on a stone in the sun, with red paint marks on the rock beside me. Again. Not in Faifley, but Oslo. To …
Pike Blog
And barbel and chub and perch and carp and….
By Brian.
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Pike: Run!
I've said it before; the most exciting thing in fishing for me is a pike run. Sometimes you've been watching the float all day when suddenly it comes to life - then sails away - …
Denerstein Unleashed
Rocky Mountain Movies & Denver Movie Review.
By Robert Denerstein.
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John and Yoko go daytime
In 1972, I was living in New York City. I had a job and a family, and I didn’t have much time for daytime TV. If I ever knew, I’d forgotten that in February of …
By Robert Denerstein, 241 words
Dan Leo
Dan Leo's goddam blog...
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"Five Spot"
They followed John Henry through the barroom, past a crowded bar and towards the sounds of loud crashing music.Mr. Whitman took Milford's arm again and spoke into his ear."Hey, Mel, you got another five in …
cultural snow
Author of books about Radiohead, Leonard Cohen and The Noughties, plus odds and sods for The Guardian, Mojo, Time Out, Prospect, BBC, CNN and more.
By Tim Footman.
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About apostrophes (apostrophe’s?)
Over to Germany, where – in a cute inversion of the tiresome refrain, “if it weren’t for Churchill/America/Wonder Woman you’d all be speaking German” – language purists complain that allowing possessive apostrophes represents acquiescence to …
Whatever
FURIOUSLY REASONABLE.
By John Scalzi.
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The Big Idea: Alex Kingsley
Debut author Alex Kingsley is here today to talk to us about crabs, monsters, being an outsider, and how all these things are inexorably connected. Follow along through their Big Idea for their new novel, …
By Athena Scalzi, 1,068 words
Reclaiming Paradise
Tales from an organic gardener.
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October harvest
I’ve been growing my own veg for 30 years and most years I grow the same things because I know they work, or usually work, or I like them: runner beans, broad beans, tomatoes, lots …
By Reclaiming Paradise, 518 words
Critic After Dark
Filipino films, Hollywood, science fiction, fantasy, action, horror, comedy, French, Korean, Chinese, silent, DVD, streaming, other bizarre creatures.
By Noel Vera.
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Joker: Folie a Deux (Todd Philips, 2024)
That's entertainmentSaw Joker: Folie a Deux and-- well I liked the ending. Todd Philips can't direct traffic to save his life and the movie still looks like a recycle bin of older better films, among …
Reading all the Books
I write about curriculum, pedagogy, theory, English and books.
By Jo.
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Top Reads of 2023
Non-fiction Viviane Robinson Reduce Change to Increase Improvement: My brilliant colleague at the National Institute of Teaching, Paula, recommended this. It has been hugely influential in developing leadership approaches that are clear and simple, and …
The Pub Man
There is only pubs.
By Cooking Lager.
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Small is Beautiful The End
By far the largest part of Schumachers book is in regard to the third world and this section really hasn’t aged well at all. The world is different place 50 years on, but it exposes …
By Cooking Lager, 1,432 words
MixedMath: Blog
I study mathematics. My research falls mostly inside number theory, arithmetic geometry, cryptography, and computation.
By David Lowry-Duda.
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Fourier expansions at different cusps
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By David Lowry-Duda, 38 words