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Pumpkin Seeds

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:08:25 GMT

quote [Some spare ephemera about Halloween, at exactly the time you need it: A couple days after the fact. We got cryptids, celebs, and even an original tune.] Entry Comment: I'll bring the pumpkin seeds

A Night Living in Penn Station

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:16:27 GMT

quote [For the outreach workers trying to place homeless New Yorkers in shelters, each evening presents familiar faces and fresh challenges.] Entry Comment: In Penn station tonight

If you love a website, back it up

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 07:01:44 GMT

quote [I work in web archiving, by the way. Which is to say that I should have known the site would go offline someday, and that I have the tools to have done something about it. I could have archived that site while it was still around, but I didn’t. This post is here to beg you to do what I didn’t think to, and to teach you how.] Entry Comment: I should post more, considering this site has become something of a second brain. See also, thumb via Royal Danish Library

The Long Ago Death of Samuel Oddy, Yeoman of Horsforth

Mon, 02 Nov 2026 10:44:01 GMT

quote [What remains of the life of an ordinary man, in an ordinary place, from two and a half centuries ago?] Entry Comment: You a yeoman in a wasteland

The Mysterious Rzepin Train Disaster

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:35:01 GMT

quote [In July 1952, reports of a railway disaster in Poland began circulating in the Western media. According to these reports, a Soviet military train derailed near the Polish town of Rzepin on 9 July 1952, killing around 160 Red Army soldiers who were returning to the Soviet Union.] Entry Comment: Sing it like a train disaster song

The Lucrative World of Literary Scams

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 08:27:00 GMT

quote [Why writers are the perfect target.] Entry Comment: I wrote a book on how to scam,

Traveling Route 66 in the Age of Data Centers

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:01:15 GMT

quote [Driving through America’s back roads, the emptiness of the information superhighways comes into sharp relief.] Entry Comment: Cruising down Route 66

Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ Captain and ‘X-Men’ Superhero, Dies at 86

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:55:20 GMT

quote [He’s forever known for playing Jean-Luc Picard and Charles Xavier, whom he “admired for their morality, for their kindness, for their sensitivity, for their compassion.” ] Entry Comment: On the one and only Patrick Stewart

Wonderful Weather: Floods and Foreboding in 17th-Century Britain

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 05:00:20 GMT

quote [When the Bristol Channel flooded in 1607, it was not just one of the worst natural disasters in British history, it was also a sign, for many, that they had strayed from the path of God. Erik Crnkovich examines the overlap of miraculous weather and the early modern printing industry, which cultivated a thirst for all things occult, exotic, and odd.] Entry Comment: As the British channel floods

The Castle in Silves Is Built From a 230-Million-Year-Old World

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:54:12 GMT

quote [This October, the same red stone is giving up what appear to be sea reptiles, and you can follow the dig as it happens.] Entry Comment: Walkin' with you through a field of red stones