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I don’t know how long she’s been there when I spot her. A pointed muzzle. Massive, soft ears swiveling in the dusk. Slender legs perched on the rock wall. She’s close to the orchard, but leaving the shelter of the trees. The comet of her dark-tipped tail follows her to the lawn. We’re close, maybe twenty feet from each other. The dogs don’t like it one bit, growling and barking …

The Duke of Bridgewater, Longport, Staffordshire A three-storey Georgian redbrick pub situated close to a bridge over the Trent & Mersey Canal. It has been closed for over a decade and was damaged by fire earlier this year.

For this week’s post, and for the next couple of weeks, I am visiting an area of London that I have not touched before in the blog. This is the area covered by Silvertown and North Woolwich, along with the Royal Docks – the Royal Victoria, Royal Albert and King George V Docks, the largest and last docks built in London (although at the time in the County of Essex), …

https://www.bram.us/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ssstwitter.com_1728373297963.mp4Recording of Paul’s demo Dissecting and reworking a very nice demo by Paul Noble. ~ Card Stack Demo Paul Noble created an AMAZING scroll-driven animations demo in which you can drag cards from a card stack. As he describes it: Card stack using scroll-driven animation w/ snapping. Just a few lines of JS, zero dependencies. Try it out (in Chrome) right here: See the Pen Scroll-driven animated card stack with …

Be careful what you wish for they say, and there’s no better illustration of that than in Gaetano Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. This autumn, Scottish Opera revive Renaud Doucet and André Barbe’s colourful and characterful 2014 production of the comic masterpiece. Corpulent cat lover Don Pasquale (David Stout) runs his crumbling pensione with only his chain-smoking chambermaid (Frances Morrison-Allen), greasy cook (Steven Faughey) and decrepit porter (Jonathan Sedgwick) for company. With …

2024 Ok I’m still playing catch up. Many of these I read some months ago. I’m unsure in which order but I start off as usual with a re-reading of: Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald Which I enjoyed more than ever and indeed am now convinced that this is his greatest novel. I loved the opening prose so much that I picked it up a few weeks later …

About those New York Times headlines Historians: He’s a fascist. Political scientists: He’s a fascist. His own aides: He’s a fascist. The NYT: He shows a wistful longing for a bygone era of global politics. That, in essence, is the issue with these headlines. Breaking my rule about linking to Substack because the NYT coverage of the election has been abysmal. In a just world it would mean the end …

One of my all-time favourite games is stardew valley. I don’t actually play a lot of games, partially because they trigger migraines and motion sickness for me, and partially because a combination of adhd and terrible motor-skills make me bad at playing them. However stardew valley was relatively simple as a 2D pixel art game with simple controls. It had a lot of depth, so it kept me occupied for …

Charlie MartelRecently, I’ve argued for a federal constitutional right to vote for president. No court has yet held that citizens have an independent federal constitutional right to vote for president. In fact, the Supreme Court has twice held that under the Constitution, states have such “plenary power” to choose presidential electors that they can exclude citizens from voting for president. The Supreme Court cases rejecting the citizens’ right to vote …

Rebecca Clarren’s The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance is perhaps the single best articulation of a puzzle so many Americans and Canadians are now trying Read more The post David S. Koffman on Rebecca Clarren’s *The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance* first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.

At the ultimate point Where extinguishing flips A cold switch, chilling dip And the lights go out One by one, one by one: Each a picture, each an image Of people, person, place; The furnishing awareness Dusted with half-remembering, Dissolves into people, person, place: The milliseconds of the only movie I ever made But never could publish Subsists for me alone: mon oeuvre Unique et solitaire: ma vie. The loves …

I have been very busy with some other matters--nothing to worry about--and I am also most of the way through Nate Silver's book, On the Edge, which is entertaining and stimulating. I will be blogging about it before long. In the meantime I may get to something else here, or I may not.The election remains, and probably will remain, a toss-up.History Unfolding

Starship’s fifth flight test launched on Sunday, October 13. The fifth flight test of Starship took another step towards full and rapid reusability. The primary objectives of the test flight were met: the first ever return to launch site and catch of the Super Heavy booster; another Starship reentry and landing burn, and an on-target, […]

On a Monday morning, the pharmacist injects my deltoid muscle with 1,000mcg of B12. It’s the biggest needle I’ve ever had. Thick syrup, metal lingering, the nails digging into my leg aren’t enough to distract me from the pain and a small noise comes out of my mouth just as the injection finally comes to an end. It has been four years of chronic fatigue, chronic pain, and chronic suspicions …

Today is a day of reflection for me. I am mourning every single life that has been lost or shattered because of the senseless, cruel violence of the past year, and I am reflecting on our part in it. I am thinking about the great frustration and helplessness that so many of us feel who have protested government policies, not just now, but going back thirty years and more. These …