Showing posts with label Blue Plate Specials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blue Plate Specials. Show all posts
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Postblogging Technology, December 1953, I: The Louche Years Begin

›
  R_., C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Thank you for the tickets, which we received on Monday. I have no idea how you found...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

The Bishops' Sea: Marine Ecology, Industry Fundamentals, and Ethnogenesis

›
  So here is, I think, a pretty basic question suited for a footnote as I gallop through the way that the politics of Sixteenth Century Euro...
Sunday, August 28, 2022

Summer Trip and a Book: Reza Aslan's Zealot In Ranch Country

›
 Sometime during his Christmas, 2013 visit to his sister, just as his mental decline was getting in the way of his packrat intellectual curi...
Thursday, December 9, 2021

The Bishop's Sea: Fine Corinthian Leather

›
  There's something a little unfair about remembering a great actor and a great guy like Ricardo Montalban for a tagline from a commerci...
3 comments:
Saturday, September 4, 2021

The Bishop's Sea: Floating Proletariats and the Development of Underdevelopment

›
  Sao Tome and Principe is an island state off the equatorial coast of Africa with an area of 1000 square kilometers, a population of 211,00...
Friday, April 2, 2021

The Early Iron Age Rise of the State: From the Sublime to the Perishable?

›
 You know the pattern by now. We have two weeks of drilling into the peak of the last, decaying maxima of the past-present wave as it moves ...
1 comment:
Friday, January 29, 2021

A Techno-Pastoral Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1950: The Chestnut Plague

›
I am writing in late January about October of 1950, well after North America's Christmastime "chestnuts roasting over an open fire ...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

The Bishop's Sea: Fishing and "The Feudal Anarchy of the Year 1000:" Or 2020, Even

›
  From January through October of this year, and most especially through the Canadian lockdown, I helped operate a "corner store" ...
4 comments:
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

The Plantation of the Atlantic: An African Reconnaissance

›
A boat launching in the Banc d'Arguin National Park At the risk of repeating myself, it's worth restating where this investigation h...
4 comments:
Saturday, August 24, 2019

Pyramids and Migrating Genes: A Holiday Diversion

›
In a spirit of pure academic inquiry, I am going to note here that I rode up Anarchist Summit Thursday morning with my bike badly out of wh...
Saturday, October 6, 2018

A Technological Preface to Postblogging Technology, August 1948, I: Certain Grand Schemes of Improvement

›
For reasons having to do with layout and marketing, customers have difficulty finding the "breakfast aisle" at the store at ...
6 comments:
Saturday, September 1, 2018

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, Sweet Sixteen: Four Key Innovations And a Key Social Context

›
This building, if erected, on Cornell University's New York City campus, will be the largest passive building in the world . It's...
Saturday, July 7, 2018

Postblogging Technology, May 1948, I: Jigging For Subtext

›
She just wants to be alone! R_. C_., The Waldorf, New York, New York, Canada Dear Father: Here I am back in California, and y...
Sunday, April 1, 2018

Postblogging Technology, February 1948, I: The Great Soul

›
R_. C_., Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: It has been a wearing week, and not just because I am a working girl, now. I've...
2 comments:
Sunday, December 31, 2017

Postblogging Technology, November 1947, I: Warmongering

›
R_.C_., Vancouver, Canada. Dear Sir: You'll pardon me if I'm not my usual, chatty self, as I've just had the news that...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

A Techno-Cultural Appendix to July, 1947: Attack of the Mutants

›
Sweetbreads poaching for Fried Sweetbreads with Peas and Broad Beans , a recommended recipe for beginners. Google Ads also put Comixology ...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

God Speed the Plough! Recapping Two Collapses of Complex Society in Light of Planting and Hoarding

›
Lotus bread; Or, actually, a raw bread made with oat flour, sunflower meal, hemp and chia seeds as well as lotus root.  Recipe at Shokuik...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

Recapping the Fall of Rome: Game of Thrones

›
Lots of caption here, because credit where credit is due. This is Abdelratif Reda's fresh goat cheese, served with apricot jam on a ba...
Friday, January 27, 2017

The Fall of Rome, VII: Bread, Circusses

›
Those are some happy elephants, because Tirupati deluxe bran is the best bran.  iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli / uendimus,...
Monday, January 2, 2017

An Agro-Technical Appendix, IV: It's Always And Will Forever Be 1846

›
Have you, dear reader, ever read a history of the Thirty Years War? Remember the breathless excitement as  Thomas, Chevalier of Savoy , j...