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Taper, an online literary magazine published twice yearly, is now in its 12th issue. An independent editorial collective (Kyle Booten, Angela Chang, Kavi Duvvoori, Leonardo Flores, Helen Shewolfe Tseng, and Andy Wallace, for this issue) makes all the decisions about selections, themes for forthcoming issues, and so on, and also handles all communication with authors. They do all the work! Editors are allowed to submit works, in which case they …

Our hearts are full of gratitude tonight to the hard working men and women of the Marin County Sheriff’s Office, the San Francisco Police Department, and the other law enforcement agencies of the Bay Area who worked together to safely recover our child, Mint, from the streets of San Francisco this evening. We want to thank family, friends, volunteers, and strangers who called in tips and made this recovery possible. …

Last time, I talked about what I called the poor man's saddle sander. I promised we'd look at the other end of the spectrum this time around. I want to talk about some really bloody expensive nut files. My nut files were getting old. I have a bundle of different styles but generally preferred the double-edged nut files that cut a V-shaped slot. I prefer these over the straight-edged files …

Note: this post requires a basic familiarity with the songs discussed. If you’re not familiar with them, I’d recommend you listen to at least a portion of the following three songs: Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd (YouTube) Cat’s in the Cradle by Harry Chapin (YouTube) Killing In The Name by Rage Against The Machine (YouTube) There are many musical genres I like, and what I listen to usually depends on …

As a young man Collins probably had his romantic experiences those "intimacies" to which the Dictionary of National Biography rather ambiguously refers. But when he was thirty-five and seemingly a confirmed bachelor, he formed an attachment with a married woman ten years his junior, which greatly influenced his life and about which he remained steadfastly and discreetly silent to all but his closest friends. It began with a queerly dramatic …

A few years ago, I thought it would be funny to have sudo cd work to cd into nonexistent directories, and so I manifested: # in .zshrc function sudo() { if [[ "$1" == "cd" ]]; then shift mkdir -p "$@" cd "$@" else /usr/bin/sudo "$@" fi } Used the following way: 🦒 potch@floyd : ~ » cd notreal cd: no such file or directory: notreal 🦒 potch@floyd : ~ …

This is just a quick short & sweet ‘Shoes’ blog that I hadn’t initially planned to publish, as I had already given the subject matter a ‘light touch’ within the content of a recently published blog article (ie Mason’s Yard). However – because the subject matter in question sat nicely within the existing ‘Shoes’ category of “London’s Lost Music Venues”, I felt the topic deserved a blog in its own …

Palmarina Tapas, Cocktail & Wine bar opened circa 2018. Photo credit above: Leicester Mercury. Photo credit above: Palmarina Facebook Page. Music, coffee, café bar. As of writing, Palmarina is very much still open for business.

On Sunday, April 14, 2024, the literary community lost one of its guiding lights when Janet Reid passed away. A New York literary agent for more than twenty years, Janet was possibly even better known for her writings about the publishing industry, especially her advice columns for aspiring authors. Janet Reid was born in Seattle, Washington, the oldest of four sisters. Her sister Cynthia described her as a constant source …

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This is not a ghost story, at least not in any normal sense of that term. Nor is it much of a history. It answers no important questions. Nor does it make a satisfying progress from A to C, stopping smartly upon arrival, with B folded neatly into the middle. Instead, what follows is an attempt to know something about a woman who bore the name Martha Moore. She was …

Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Manby Peter K. AnderssonPrinceton University Press, 2023 The posthumous image of him has been entangled with the real individual, and no one has really fully tried to disentangle them. But achieving that would provide us with a unique window into both the life of the court and fundamental conceptions of humour, humanity, and deviance in the Reneissance. … Fool: In Search of Henry …