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September bathes the garden in golden light. September sun is often the most benign of the year, the mornings and evenings chilly enough to need a jersey but the days bright and shirt-sleeve warm. Some of this is due to the changing climate but September has always been one of the best months and always with a marked seasonal shift, with a new term, new season, new feel in the …

Nate Piekos took the bull by the horns and wrote The Book on comic book lettering. He did not disappoint. The post The Ultimate Guide to Lettering Comics appeared first on PIPELINE COMICS.

“You see, it was the wedding of my grandparents. To the Shaws was born a boy, James, and to the Stephensons, a daughter, Esther. James and Esther were sweethearts from childhood and like their parents before them, they too were married on a beach at midnight amid blazing torches. Is it any wonder I should have become a torch singer?” –Wini Shaw Wini Shaw was born Winifred Lei Momi on …

When is the best time to land fish using the fly rod? August stands out as the least productive month, particularly for warm-water species. Bass and Bluegill tend to retreat to deeper waters during the hottest times of the year, typically July and August when surface temperatures can reach a scorching 87/88 degrees. However, as the water begins to cool in late September and October, the fish become more active, …

Lillian Gish is, unquestionably, one of the most significant stars of the silent film era. But one of her greatest performances from the era was in the last silent film she appeared in: The Wind, released in 1928. The Wind was an adaptation of Dorothy Scarborough’s novel by the same name, first published in 1925. This is very much a book that was meant to be turned into a silent …

I’m traveling for the long weekend. Either I’m having bad luck with the epic heat waves or there have been a lot of epic heat waves, because again the short road trip threatens to be tyrannized by the hot air. It did at least touch 100°F this time, so at least it is a proper respectable heat wave. We are in a place called Hocking Hills, whose AirBnB has these …

Hi, everyone. I alluded to this in my last Krondor post, but I thought I'd make it explicit: September is the busiest month of my year, so I need to concentrate on other things for a while. I'm in better shape this year than in previous years, however, so I expect you'll see my return around the middle of the month rather than after 4-5 weeks like last year.

I recently went on on a trip from Cape Town to Washington, D.C., Seattle, North Cascades National Park, Seattle again, Denver, D.C. again, and then back home to Cape Town, all in three weeks. It was wonderful, but it was too much: too many airports, too many suitcases, too many weird bathroom setups. (Well, two, but that was two too many.) I kept saying to myself, “I’ll be so happy …

After 18 months, I finally took the hint that my walking partner has moved on (I’m not bitter) and replaced him. With somebody reliable, who will walk with me whenever I want and enjoy it too. Demmy loves walking and is already in my house! She’s perfect. A visit from my Dad, who looks down on almost everything I enjoy doing except walking, seemed like a good time to resume …

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My ambition this summer was to read extensively in Arabic literature. Eh, I did all right, but I will have to save Ibn Battuta’s Travels and the second half of Leg over Leg for some other time. FICTION The Arabian Nights (14th c.), many hands – In the great Hassan Haddawy translation. I and My Chimney (1856), Herman Melville – Because I saw the actual chimney last month. I thought …

This model was built board by board and placed on a card stock base for scenery. The wood had a reddish color and I added weathering chalk.The photo above shows a ladder, a dog, a man sitting on a chair and a fenced are on the right.Above is a photo of the right side. Above shows some of the details in the fenced area. Above shows some more details in …

The electronic version of the latest issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin is now available on our website. Before you look on the inside front cover to see what the cover image represents, what patterns do you make out in it? In this issue, we present the first installment of an interview with Boston University Professor of Mathematics Jennifer Balakrishnan. In this first part, we Jennifer traces her history from …

Reading: Deerskin by Robin McKinley, recommended in an online course about dark fairy tales that I just took Art: I’m deep in thoughts about Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare. Join my Morbid Anatomy session on this cult classic painting! Audio: Spotify’s “day lists” are pretty funny. Mine are mostly reacting to the large amount of Beatles I played all summer while my workplace was hosting a show of Paul McCartney’s photos. …