The Annunciation (2025)
“Monstra te esse matrem” is a Latin phrase, meaning “Show yourself to be our Mother,” and is a prayer addressed to Mary, the mother of Jesus, taken from the ancient Continue Reading →
Author Archives: Winston Smith
New Home (…every form of refuge has its price)
After a brief content hiatus LIMESTONEROOF is back! It’s the same content with hopefully better site stability and speed.
Weekend 634.0
Watched Flowers of War on TUBI. It’s very brutal, but usually a theater in WWII you never see in movies.
Playmobil365
The tribute site has moved to a new hosting provider. It was a 2014 project commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Playmobil. Can you believe that Playmobil celebrated their 50th Anniversary Continue Reading →
Weekend 633.0
Any suggestions for alleviating writer’s block? (1) Imagine you are driving by Julian Opie (Tate) (2) Kevin Mitnick, formerly the world’s ‘most-wanted’ hacker, has passed away (engadget)
Weekend 632.0
We were canaries in a coal mine. We stopped going to the parks pre-COVID because Disney broke the value-quality-price equation. (1) Disney theme parks ‘addicted to price hikes’ as visits Continue Reading →
Weekend 631.0
(1) Miniatua’s tiny handcrafted replicas of vintage computers (WAXY)
Weekend 630.0 (He’s an adult human male, and he should do as he pleases.)
(1) My December/January playlist via YouTube. (a) July Tree by Nina Simone. Movies from Hollywood in the WOKE / DEI / ME TOO era are absolute dreck, but Licorice Pizza Continue Reading →
Weekend 629.0
I was scanning old hard drives to find an image and realized I could post one image every day from those archives and have enough content for years. Digital footprint Continue Reading →
Weekend 628.0
A veritable hodgepodge of quality articles and excerpts from my weekend wanderings. (1) Excerpt from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage by Lord Byron: The Niobe of nations! there she stands,Childless and crownless, Continue Reading →