DON’T FORGET THE WATERCRESS SANDWICHES
IN COZY ENGLISH WHO-DONE-ITS, watercress sandwiches at teatime seem to coincide with reveal of the rascal. Now according to Korin Miller writing in Food & Wine, September 12, 2024, “The … Continue reading
ALVIS SPEED 20—A GENTLEMAN’S SPORTING MACHINE PART 2
YESTERDAY, R&T JANUARY 1959 INTRODUCED US to the 1932 Alvis Speed 20. Today in Part 2 we review this luxurious Brit four-seat tourer with tidbits gleaned from R&T’s Classic Road … Continue reading
ALVIS SPEED 20—A GENTLEMAN’S SPORTING MACHINE PART 1
IMAGINE YOU’RE AN (EVIDENTLY WELL-HEELED) auto enthusiast in 1932. You have enjoyed the likes of Amicar and Bugatti two-seaters, but now there’s the wife and little Artemis calling for suitable … Continue reading
A LOT MORE THAN A ROOF OVER ONE’S HEAD
AN AVOWED ENTHUSIAST OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (see for example “FLW at the MOMA,” particularly its Part 2 “You Can Own an American Home”), I’m surprised I’ve never cited Ennis … Continue reading
GUS’S WORLD FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN IS BEST!
I REPEAT, GUS’S WORLD FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN IS BEST!! Well, I concede that you may have a fav fried chicken place too, so let’s praise the concept as well as … Continue reading
A.I. CAN REDUCE CONSPIRACY BELIEFS
“EVEN THE DEEPEST OF RABBIT HOLES may have an exit” says a news release, September 12, 2024 from American University. Indeed, appearing the same day AAAS Science’s Editor-in-Chief H. Holden … Continue reading
WITH A SONG IN MY HEAD
MAYBE IT’S A BYPRODUCT of whacko Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s brain worm, but Melinda Wenner Moyer writes in The New York Times, September 10, 2024, “Why Can’t I Get This … Continue reading
THREE SISTERS VS THE PESTS—THEORY AND PRACTICE PART 2
YESTERDAY’S PART 1 OFFERED the theory of interplanting corn, beans, and squash for mutual benefit of these vegetables, not to say their cultivators as well. Today we have Sylvia Klyz’s … Continue reading
THREE SISTERS VS THE PESTS—THEORY AND PRACTICE PART 1
THIS SOUNDS LIKE ONE OF THOSE “Grrls Get Even” flicks, but in fact it’s about the science of interplanting corn, beans, and squash—the Three Sisters—with mutual benefits for all three … Continue reading
ANGRY DAN’S ICONS OF LONDON
BRIT STREET ARTIST/LIMERIST EXTRAORDINAIRE ANGRY DAN is anything but angry. As recounted by Georgie Mortimer at *Secret London, February 22, 2019, “Someone’s Been Leaving Limericks Around London (And They Really Make … Continue reading
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