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Monthly Archives: June 2024
I know what you did last summer
Happy Solstice to all. Stay chill . And please ditch the socks and sandals look.
Eating your way through NYC
57 Sandwiches That Define New York City. I challenge you to read this New York Times article all the way through and not crave one of these amazing sandwiches. NYC is home to ~23,000 restaurants, so choosing where to eat … Continue reading
Rules for Writing
Kurt Vonnegut’s eight rules of writing: Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root … Continue reading
An Alternate Alice Versery
I am continually amazed by the seemingly endless variations and spinoffs of Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland. But even I was surprised to discover that beginning in the 1930s, Guinness beer began using Alice in Wonderland and the cast … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Writing
Tagged Advertising, Alice in Wonderland, Guinness, Lewis Carroll
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“To walk alone in London is the greatest rest.”
It’s surprising to learn that London wasn’t well mapped until the 1500s, but the cartographers, topographers, and historians of the Historical Towns Trust have the decided to remedy the problem by looking back in time to create period maps.. Their … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Europe, History, Maps, Tourism
Tagged Cartography, Great Britain, London
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Everything is like something else
NO LONGER VERY CLEAR John Ashbery It is true that I can no longer remember very well the time when we first began to know each other. However, I do remember very well the time we first met. You walked … Continue reading
Anthropodermic bibliopegy is not cool
Harvard University Library has reported that it has removed a volume bound in human skin from its collection. A copy of the 19th-century book Des Destinées de l’Ame — or Destinies of the Soul, a meditation on life after death … Continue reading
Lucifer’s Big Book
The Codex Gigas (or Devil’s Bible) is a large 13th-century manuscript from Bohemia, one of the historical Czech lands. Renowned for its size and its striking full-page rendition of the devil (found on page 577), it contains a number of … Continue reading
Ban This Book book actually banned
Who could have imagined that an award winning children’s book titled Ban This Book would actually be banned and in the state of Florida of all places. The Indian River County School Board voted to remove “Ban This Book” by Alan Gratz from … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Freedom of Speech, Libraries, USA, Writing
Tagged book bans, censorship, Florida
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Data Poetry
Traditional rooftops slope like the backs of resting camels. Forests play fortresses; secrets held in whistling pine needles. Serene valleys echo a painter’s lost blues and greens. Mountains order the sky, no less, wearing casts of gray ruggedness. Although I am a frequent critic of … Continue reading
Posted in apps, Photography, Tech, Writing
Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, Poetry
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