MUSIC TO SLIT YOUR WRISTS BY?
cindyphillips It’s the anniversary of the death of Mahler. I’ve been ferreting out bits about his miserable messy life this week, because of Gropius, but I mustn’t digress to architecture here.…
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Friday Book Review. DOG HOTEL
(Children’s Fiction) The other day I visited a real-life Dog Hotel built alongside the beautifully hidden ancient ruins of a Settler farmhouse in my village. I often stop there in…
What’s the oldest things you’re wearing today? My earrings. They’re fat silver hearts that dangle from my sagging lobes. They’re too big for my life now, but I wear them.…
The absence of dread.
What does freedom mean to you?
DON’T FEED THE ALGI
Categories: Stream of consciousness about all sorts of shit. (This is not a poem.) Sometimes it’s all a person can do to just go with the flow, but when –…
A PRESCRIPTION FOR MESHUGGE MEDICINE
It’s just as well we can’t foretell the future, because if anyone had told me twenty years ago that I would be given strict medical orders to blog every day…
COFFEE WITH A SOBER BUTCHER
The invaluable Schott’s Food & Drink Miscellany references booze on almost every page, but – astonishingly – has only a handful of mentions of coffee! More surprising for a gourmet’s…
DO WE REALLY NEED A COMPREHENSIVE LEXICON OF GENTLER INSULTS TO RECOUNT OUR APPALLING HISTORY?
A WEEKLY DOSE OF FAITH Faith Grey is the pseudonym of an incorrigible flaneuse, freelance researcher, writer, and editor. I fled to the internet earlier
SCREENSHOTS AND OUR SLOWLY ERODING PRIVATE SPHERE
For a glossary of terms used in this post, and a list of references for further reading, please see the footnotes to this post. Character assassination, this dangerous new weapon…
IF YOU SHINE YOUR LIGHT, MOTHS WILL COME
Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over…