WHATS GOIN ON AT ST MARYS WALK? OR WATERSTONES? OR VONS?
JENNY GROSS WRITES IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 10, 2024, “An English Town Drops Apostrophes From Street Signs. Some Aren’t Happy.” “Malcolm Wood, an English teacher in North Yorkshire, … Continue reading
DISSIN’ FOR FUN
BACK IN OCTOBER 2022, MY BOOK REVIEW of Colin Jarman’s Barbed Quotes: Mudslinging, Backstabbing, and Celebrity Dishing offered only one quote concerning politicians. I guess I thought Trump would just … Continue reading
THE SANTOS=DUMONT DEMOISELLE PART 2
BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS OF ALBERTO SANTOS=DUMONT were offered in Part 1 yesterday. Today we focus on the 1908 Demoiselle, his last aeroplane design and my latest GMax project. An Ur-Ultralight. Quite … Continue reading
THE SANTOS=DUMONT DEMOISELLE PART 1
BRAZILIAN ALBERTO SANTOS=DUMONT (the “=,” his stylized choice) was a Deutsch-Prize-winning balloonist (1901) who went on to demonstrate his 14 bis aeroplane on October 23, 1906 before a large crowd … Continue reading
R&T SORTA CARPS ABOUT THE MUSCLE CAR ERA PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, R&T WAXED ELOQUENT about muscle cars countering a U.S. automaker racing ban and swiping car names from good, honest foreigners. Today it continues in its road … Continue reading
R&T SORTA CARPS ABOUT THE MUSCLE CAR ERA PART 1
R&T GOT ALL NUTSY in 1964 about the Pontiac GTO’s name, but they were also recognizing the category of “muscle car.” Wikipedia cites Merriam-Webster defining the category as “a group … Continue reading
SHILLING FOR PROFESSOR EAGLETON
NOT THAT TERRY EAGLETON, English literary theorist and public intellectual, needs the like of me to encourage folks to his lectures. But his “Where Does Culture Come From?,” London Review … Continue reading
GREAT (AND NEAT-O) LAKES
THE INTERESTING FACTS website offered a tidbit that the Great Lakes hold more that 20 percent of the world’s fresh water, six quadrillion gallons of it: “That’s so much water,” … Continue reading
QUITE AN EVENTFUL YEAR—1994
“WHAT WITH FIRESTORMS, EARTHQUAKES, MUD SLIDES and, as I begin this report, torrential rains, flooding, even a tornado, Southern California had hardly been a boring place of late.” So wrote … Continue reading
HOW’S NORWAY DOING WITH EVS? PART 2
YESTERDAY, TWO FASCINATING ARTICLES yielded tidbits about Norway and its dramatic rise of electric vehicle sales from 1 percent in 2014 to 83 percent last year as consumers responded to … Continue reading
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