DOES BLOG-COMMENTING COUNT? Active social life may create cognitive buffer against Alzheimer’s, study suggests
Kate Bush fans sprint up a hill as the hit song "Running Up That Hill" is played on July 30, in Sydney.
The Most Wuthering Heights Day is when people all around the world come together to recreate Kate Bush's 1978 Wuthering Heights music video, inspired by Emily Bronte's 1847 novel.
Kate Bush fans go running up that hill in Sydney
Visiting Norway? The Hills Are Alive …
Great vistas, a rail journey like no other, a traditional music festival – this country has it all. And who knows, you might meet a sprite or two.
The High Tatra style song 🎶 is about Huldra. She seduces young men in forests and on mountain farms, then kills them …
Little quiverings of things
Quick among twigs;
Two deer, their eyes listening,
Flow into nowhere in a single blink. . . .
Swans stretching north
Swimming the open sky –
The silence so huge
I hear their wings.
How to Drink Wine Like an Italian
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Earth Has An Unexplainable, 27.5-Million-Year Cycle of Mass Extinctions.
Who’s It For? — ‘Craft in the Real World’
Salesses’s foremost concern is the way that the behavioral and artistic norms of writing workshops suppress or distort the voices of writers of color, but his deeper purpose is to suggest that the question “What makes a story ‘good writing’?” can’t be answered until you know who the story is for.
Maybe they’re thinking about it too much. I’ve been earning my living from my pen for nearly 60 years. I have never attended a writer’s workshop. It was on-the-job training right from the start.
Middle Class Sour Dough parody:
'80 Books Every Man Should Read' ?
Esquire has (another) list of 80 Books Every Man Should Read.
These kinds of lists don't seem particularly useful, but, hey, it's a list ..... (And it is kind of fun, in its all-over-the-place-ness .....)
New US Poet Laureate
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has announced the appointment of Ada Limón as the 24th 'Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry', succeeding Joy Harjo, who served for three terms.
How to Insert a Hyperlink in Google Docs - MakeUseOf: “If you’ve worked with files on Google Docs, you’ve probably come across texts that are hyperlinked. Hyperlinks are very useful when you want to connect other resources to your document. You can subtly link a URL into your document by using anchor text. That way, you can avoid explicitly pasting the URL. This will allow your document to flow smoothly while making other pages discoverable to whoever is viewing your document…”
Waste and Want
A collection of various things / paintings by Alex Lowery/ Buzz Aldrin, American Icon, a sale at Sotheby’s / A compilation of boomboxes with built-in keyboards at Synth History / related, The Lost Keys of China, a documentary on a ‘$15 Analog Keyboard That Never Left the Country’ (via Musictech) / the music of composer Ben Juodvalkis / a deep data dive into pornographic preferences and political affiliations / don’t want to pay for your heated seats? Inevitably, there’s a hack for that / Princess Mononoke: The masterpiece that flummoxed the US / some flying saucer backstory / Chuckie Egg!
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A Virtual Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Lost Japanese Masterpiece, the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, via Open Culture. Still an inexplicable loss, the hotel was demolished in 1967 when it was just 44 years old (akin to demolishing Sydney Opera House in 2017) / a gothic mansion to restore / ‘Space Eraser‘, a ‘reset button for the home’ that uses AR to allow you to visualise blissfully empty rooms / the labyrinthine Espai Xavier Corberó has been acquired by the local town / more empty space: Mandarin Street in East London.
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Inside the Mind-Boggling World of the Antiquities Theft Task Force / Haile Sands Fort and Bull Sands Fort, up for sale recently. The latter via Savills, who note that it is ‘in need of refurbishment’ (via Cal Flyn) / a history of the crawl / we come in praise of Sonic Youth / The Haves and the Have-Yachts, a New Yorker story on the history and histrionics of big boat ownership / related, the great Fabergé egg hunt and the sound of guillotines being sharpened / who does Nick Cave want to win Love Island? A very lovely thing.
