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In October 2004, Rodney Frank Williams's daughters reported hearing what they described as "a combination of a whale and a dinosaur" coming from the state forestland near their home in Joyce, Washington. Upon further investigation, Williams discovered a footprint "much like a large wide human print dressed in a moccasin." Additional incidents, including a mysteriously moved pumpkin, led

By Evlyn MoreauSelf PublishedBasicLevel ... 4? The oasis is filled with cactus sprouting large yellow flowers. The water flows between a cave mouth and a sandstone crevasse. This 42 page adventure describes about twenty locations in and around desert oasis With Shit Going Down. Creature creativity abounds with an occasional turn of a phrase that is wonderful, but it can’t sustain that and doesn’t support the situation it wants to …

Problems with broken escalators at Cutty Sark DLR station has seen an MP demand answers from TfL as all four remain out of service. Issues have been ongoing for years with the station’s passengers now forced to use small lifts or numerous steps to reach street level. Station pictured with logo of PPP organisation CGL. Now removed Transport for London had blamed years of disruption due to poor quality assets …

Lots of good bits in this feature on Caryl Phillips. Phillips, 66, knew the loose ends demanded a novel “because the engine room for fiction, for me, is character. If I hear a character’s voice or if I can imagine what anxieties a character might have, then I figure I’m dealing with fiction. A piece of non-fiction can take a walk around a subject. But as soon as you start …

Community is a word you hear a lot in Lambeth. Easy to say, but a lot of hard work to create and continue. Alan Slingsby met three people who have put in that hard work and explain how they got help and support that are available to anyone in the borough who is or who wants to […]

Welcome to 2025's first edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts! We're catching up on some of our favorite artists adding albums to stream and download, plus country soul and remixes aplenty - as well as a list of resources to […]

Why are UK infrastructure projects so expensive, and what can be done about this? To what extent is the rise of the far-right the result of economic stagnation? How can we raise economic growth given that we're close to full employment and so ordinary deficit financing would be inflationary? How do we divert labour towards construction, social care and public services without accelerating pub closures and high street decline, both …

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I find knowing I’ll revisit my posts to be a positive and mellowing influence on my social media activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends …

A great piece by Riccardo Mori on the walls slowly closing in on bootable backups on macOS. When I started using Linux full-time for my personal computing last year, one of the things I’ve missed most was the ability to easily backup my system. Time Machine is such an incredible feature and there really isn’t anything like it on other operating systems. But just as important to me as Time …

I have a feeling that 2025 is going to be a year of reflection for me. It’s such a nice round number, 25. One quarter of a century. That’s also how long myself and Jessica have been married. Our wedding anniversary was last week. Top tip: if you get married in year ending with 00, you’ll always know how long ago it was. Just lop off the first 2000 years …

I thought I’d drop in quickly to wish you a Happy New Year before it’s not new anymore and it gets too weird. I’ve been focused on working on Unhinged over the last couple of weeks, but new posts will be coming shortly.

Thanks to everyone who made all those kind remarks in various places last month after my mother died. I've not responded individually (I did not have the strength) but I did read them all and they were deeply appreciated. Yesterday would’ve been mum‘s 93rd birthday. A little side-note occurred to me the other day: Since she left us a month ago, she was just short of having seen two perfect …

Last April, I posted about my favorite restaurant, Salar, and covered one of their monthly wine dinners. As much as I love their monthly wine dinners, I wasn’t able to make it to any others in 2024. Thankfully I managed to kick 2025 off with their January wine dinner. If you didn’t catch my previous post, Salar is an elevated Peruvian restaurant in the Oregon district of Dayton. It offers …

The theatre in the hills, Pitlochry Festival has announced a vibrant season of theatrical highlights. Beginning with a new play: 9-17 May STUDIO Presented by Byre Theatre and Pitlochry Festival Theatre WATER COLOUR by Milly Sweeney Winner of the St Andrews Playwriting Award Esme is at an all-time low, struggling with her studies and her art. She finds herself standing on the railing of one of the bridges that crosses …

In sports such as athletics and football there is need for a high degree of physical fitness. This fitness is very important, for it affects not only strength and stamina, but the athlete's skill and ability also.Angling, though seemingly less demanding, still requires a reasonable degree of fitness, and although, at first glance, it gives the impression that 'know-how' is the only factor controlling success, this is not so. To …