Sunday, July 30, 2017

Postblogging Technology, June 1947, II: See? No Bathing Suit!

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R_.C_. The Flamingo, Las Vegas, Nevada. Dear Dad: In spite of best intentions, I'm dashing this one off before ha...
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Saturday, July 22, 2017

Postblogging Technology, June 1947, I: Coffee-Coloured

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Reginald C_., Royal York, Toronto, Canada. Dear Dad: I'm going to dash this one off and send it via Auntie Grace, instead of p...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

God Speed the Plough: "About the ordering of ritual vessels, I have some knowledge; but warfare I have never studied."

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Not really  a review, so much as a meditation .  We don't really do literary histories of Anglo-Saxon England, any more. The text...
Thursday, July 6, 2017

A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, May 1947: Silicone Sally, Or, Was It Getting Hot In Here?

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Silicone. It's hot.   (Where's my eyeroll emoji?) Kingpro non-stick utility frying pan, because Teflon. Now that we've got...
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Saturday, July 1, 2017

Postblogging Technology, May 1947, II: Unfit to Lead

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Wing Commander R. Cook (ret.), OBE, Oriental Institute, London, U.K. Dear Father: Well, I promised Aunt G. that I'd contin...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Postblogging Technology, May 1947, I: Chilled and Silly Springs

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It was always colder when we were young. In 1947, Britons couldn't heat their homes from May to October. R_. C_., Orien...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

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

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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...