Obscurorant 2.0

What am I loving right now? Our slow cooker, for one thing. Saturday afternoon I spent an hour or so chop chop chopping away at a stack o’ vegetables. Some went into the pot immediately as chili, which simmered away while I was out for the evening. The rest went into the cooker on Sunday [...]

I still have not seen The Sound of Music and I doubt I will anytime soon. But I did uncover a much more interesting (to me anyway) part of the von Trapp family saga. I’m not referring to their return to Austria, but to an older part of the story. George Ritter von Trapp served [...]

My sister states that during a recent visit to our apartment, she deposited this clown in the shower to surprise us in the morning. I believe this to be a true statement, although it could be part of an elaborate scheme because… ..neither The Intended nor I came across said clown in the shower. Or [...]

The Gelaskin I mentioned buying several months ago for my laptop. I really like this one, probably because of the the kind of retro, steam-punk look to the robot. I was less-pleased with the skin I got for my iPod, but it is servicable.

Which it’s some more links for you, this time library-related. UCSD has some very cool digital collections. My favorites: a collection of posters from the Spanish Civil War, a photojournalism exhibit – again from the Spanish Civil War, and The Advertising Artwork of Dr. Seuss. Awesome. The British Library has an online gallery, allowing you [...]

Some book-related linkage for you: I think this is a library, but I can’t read Dutch so I’m not sure.  Damned impressive picture though. The 47th Annual Pequot Library Book Sale, self-described as “the biggest and best book sale in New England,” coming soon to Southport, Connecticut. With over 120,000 books on offer, you can [...]

I finally got around to emptying out the camera, with pictures from the summer so far and a few plain random ones. Enjoy.

From the archives of Columbia records, photos of Johnny Cash at the age of 27, in 1959.

A post card view of Hough’s Neck circa… well, I don’t know when.  A long time ago, that’s obvious. I’m not sure where ‘The Square’ is located either, though I have some ideas.

Currently wondering: should I upgrade this site from WordPress 2.0.6 to WordPress 2.6 (or 2.5)? How much havoc would such a change wreak here?

I don’t have cable, although now that I live with the Intended I should say we don’t have cable. Anyway, that’s not to say I don’t watch any television shows, because I do – on DVD. Not paying for cable was an austerity measure a dozen years go, but now it functions as a filter [...]

I’m going to be right up front about this thing here. I never had any Jordan Marsh blueberry muffins. I was a Pewter Pot guy; Nana went there and thus did I. Both Jordan Marsh and the Pewter Pot have vanished, all part of the increasing homogenization of Boston and New England.  The blueberry muffins [...]

If you follow my del.icio.us links at all (which seem to have momentarily vanished from the sidebar), you may have noticed a sudden surge of recipes involving andouille, owing to the fact that this past Saturday I brought some home from Savenor’s, aka The House of Temptation. I plan on cooking them this weekend ,and [...]

Am I the only one who thinks that last nights’ starter for the Red Sox, Jon Lester, somehow looks like Chilly Willy? I mean, as much a six foot lefty and a penguin can resemble one another.

A group called the Western Writers of America came up with a list of what they call the greatest western movies of all time. They list 100 – here are their top ten: 1. Shane 2. High Noon 3. The Searchers 4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 5. Dances with Wolves 6. The Wild [...]