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Park Güell Centenary

Posted on June 19, 2026 by Brian D. Butler

Like most visitors to Barcelona, I was charmed by Park Güell, the UNESCO-listed municipal park originally designed by the beloved Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí as a private housing estate on the outskirts of Barcelona. Inaugurated in 1926 as a municipal garden … Continue reading →

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Judge Me By My Bookshelves

Posted on June 18, 2026 by Brian D. Butler
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Counterculture

Posted on June 17, 2026 by Brian D. Butler

Far Out Company is a curated archive of 1960s–70s counterculture visual art — concert posters, TV shows, underground newspapers, commune newsletters, comix, hippie business advertisements, and album art. The website focuses heavily on the DIY design aesthetic of this era: … Continue reading →

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Parallel to what ?

Posted on June 16, 2026 by Brian D. Butler

Finally. You’ve always wanted to know which cities are on the same parallel  (latitude) as yours across the globe. Now you can find out.

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Oh the Horror

Posted on June 14, 2026 by Brian D. Butler

Subcutanean is a coming-of-age horror novel that Aaron Reed published in 2020, which tells of a college senior who discovered a secret basement beneath his house. The wild thing is that every copy of the novel is slightly different. Reed wrote … Continue reading →

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TL;DR etc. etc.

Posted on June 13, 2026 by Brian D. Butler

Long sentences can digress, meander, sing; the effect is a headlong immersion. Books with never-ending sentences are difficult to put down: Since there is no natural place to pause, halting anywhere feels like an interruption. The winners of the 2025 Bram … Continue reading →

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The magic is only in what books say

Posted on June 12, 2026 by Brian D. Butler

It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that were once in books. The same things could be in the ‘parlour families’ today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios and televisors, but … Continue reading →

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Art from pain

Posted on June 10, 2026 by Brian D. Butler

I have to admit that I have a bit of the old PTSD from my hospital experiences, but I was intrigued by this multi-artist project. At Colossal: In Los Angeles, 70 artists transform a vacant hospital into a sprawling art experience. … Continue reading →

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Exonym Atlas

Posted on June 9, 2026 by Brian D. Butler

An exonym is a place name used by outsiders—for example, English speakers using Germany for Deutschland. The Exonym Atlas explores how other languages name countries and groups those names by usage. Fascinating to see the derivations of names, which don’t always follow language families: for … Continue reading →

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Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop

Posted on June 7, 2026 by Brian D. Butler

Statue of a Danish author Hans Christian Andersen Artist: Jens Galschiøt Location: Submerged in the harbor of Odense, the author’s birthplace. Odense harbor, Denmark. “Never stop reading.” It is part of an art installation that uses the rising and falling … Continue reading →

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