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Tuesday Bookmark Funeral Pyre

Well, it’s Tuesday. Time to clean out the bookmarks I’ve been meaning to read. I’ll post them here, to avoid reading them properly. It’s the only way I can delete them without feeling foolish. The most beautiful bridges in the world Not hardly. Most of the included examples

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Kitchen Sink Squeeze

Squeeze from 1979, from the Cool for Cats album. Cool for cats, indeed. That’s only their second album, and they look it. They’re as fresh-faced as high-schoolers in that video. I’m always impressed when musicians are that young and that sophisticated about the songs they write. Mostly the

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The Sheet Metal Ship of Theseus

Everyone’s talking about Homer’s The Odyssey these days. Now, don’t get me wrong, Homer’s OK. If you want to get hopped up on hoplites, The Iliad‘s a great read. It’s got Achilles hectoring Hector until they go mano a mano in front of the trailer park of Troy.

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I Read All These Books and Boy Are My Lips Tired

It occurs to me now that the books I read when I was young affected me deeply, although it didn’t seem that way at the time. They weren’t presented to me in some sort of Skull & Bones ceremony as sacred texts or anything. It’s just what we

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I Make a New One

I’ve told you people a million times that I’m prone to hyperbole. So you’re sort of forewarned. Here goes: This Swiss dude is The King of all the anal-retentive restoration project YouTube video generators, and there are legions of them. There can be only one, and he’s it.

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Greatest Hits

fixing the basement

Our $25,000 House

Here she be, just as we found her: Our $25,000 house hov·el noun ˈhə-vəl, ˈhä- a small, wretched, and often dirty house OK, OK, we

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gardening

Fie On Thee, Horseflies!

If you’re new around here, I live in a swamp. I know I’m supposed to call it a “pristine wetland,” but if you don’t mind,

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Sagas and Compilations