During my recent trip to Scotland, one of the many things I fell in love with was the famed smell of Edinburgh. Though it isn’t a 24-hour redolence, it is persistent and delicious, a subtle organic smokey odor. Hops, I’m told, from all the breweries — or the ones that are left, anyway. I initially [...]
Blu is an Italian (?) animator whose work includes several excellent stop-motion pieces done with a room and moving camera (“wall animation”). The drawing/erasing reminds me of the whiteboard animation we posted a few months ago, but his use of the wall apparently shows some of his grafitti background (think painting on buildings). He’s also [...]
Please tell me this is a joke. Alas, it is not, as is clear from the pleasure the author is getting from the “major uproar throughout the confederation of the left” his propoganda has caused. Accordion Guy has a longer commentary on the piece, as well as other Campbell pieces. Myself, I have to stop [...]
Whisky Galore is a mediocre movie from 1949 wherein a small Scottish island’s inhabitants have to contend with a horrible tragedy: they run out of whisky. The film begins strange and aimless, and only earns whatever small number of stars might be awarded it in the last twenty minutes, when they finally find some whisky. [...]
The Science News reported last week that the solution to an ancient desert mystery has been solved. “Booming dunes,” as they are called, are desert areas that sometimes make a low moaning sound which is loud enough to be heard for miles. What? Booming dunes? Moaning sand? What? This is all news to me. During [...]
Johnny Society is a band. They are headed by the astoundingly talented Kenny Siegal and have many fine recordings, which I will not detail here. Instead, I will provide a free MP3 of an old song of theirs from the mid-90s. As far as I can tell, it is not available anywhere else. I digitized [...]
The New York Times has done away with its pay-for-some-content policy, which they called “Times Select”. Good for them. It was hard to read the phrase Times Select without hearing an upper-class accent in your head. So now more people will read their “paper”, and it’s especially gratifying that we’ll have access to the op-ed [...]
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The Vegetarian Dim Sum House is one of my all time favorite New York City cheap eats. Though it’s not everyone’s can of beans, I find items such as the steamed glutinous rice ball wrapped in lotus leaf and the mock ham in rice flour roll to be absolutely delicious. So it was with immense [...]