Weekend 316.0 (…an abundance of caution)
“You gonna have to wear some pants, man, ’cause you freaking’ me out with that.” ― Black Jesus (1) Inflated Hopes: Early airship experimenters found that insurance companies refused to Continue Reading →
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Weekend 315.0 (79.45%)
“In Him we live and move and exist.” ― St. Paul How many of your conversations this year started with, “it just seems like yesterday?” Projects that mark the passage Continue Reading →
Weekend 305.1
“St. Francis de Sales one day was looking at a rose, and he put his hands to his ears and he said to the rose, ‘Stop shouting.’ There is a Continue Reading →
Weekend 305.0 (Redoubts 9 & 10)
I use email drafts like a notepad for interesting links and quotes. It also begins to accumulate other bits of data that eventually become uninterpretable (see below), as well as Continue Reading →
Weekend 304.0 (1958)
Gardening with vines? Show off, effortlessly, by intertwining two types http://t.co/GsxCluetcV pic.twitter.com/KX2utRInz6 — WSJ Life & Culture (@WSJLife) June 21, 2014
Weekend 303.0 “Lars Porsena of Clusium”
(1) When a Monarch Calls It Quits: A history of royal abdication, from Tarquin the Proud in 509 B.C. to Juan Carlos of Spain (WSJ – Registration Required) (2) Artists’ Long Continue Reading →
Weekend 302.0 (And sunday always comes too late)
I think it’s like a nervous tick or something, but sometimes I get a song stuck in my head and then it takes days to get dislodged. This time it’s Continue Reading →
Weekend 301.0 (Memorial Day Weekend)
My sister always lends me great books and she found a real gem with In Unfamiliar England by Thos D. Murphy. Only forty pages invested, and there’s already been references Continue Reading →
Unfamilar Shrines
(1) From secret doorways to hidden messages, captivating illustrations reveal the stories behind New York’s mosaic Subway signs (Daily Mail) Credit: Stephen L (2) The Narcissistic Creed: When preening replaces Continue Reading →
Weekend 300.0 (Rare 3 Day Weekend)
…and great timing because my Space Mountain Graphic Novel just arrived! Weekend 279.0 (Post Con/Abridged) (1) A quote from Hayao Miyazaki in The Art of the Wind Rises: “I don’t Continue Reading →