Manhattan's Last Arcadia: lovely watercolour aerial views that depict the semi-rural terrain of northern Manhattan before it began to urbanize in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. (images above) via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese
Did you know this? I didn't. The Addams Family's Living Room Was Actually Pink!
Dying Out Loud A former "Jesus Movement" evangelical, Dave Warnock speaks about his exit from evangelicalism, his recent ALS diagnosis, and his "seize the day" philosophy for the short time he has left. (via FB pal Hal)
A master palindromist spells out his 40-year ‘love affair with reversibility’ (aeon videos)
Signs That The Hotel You're Staying In Is Trashy (Although if you're already there it might be too late to do anything about it.)
Eat like a revolutionary: On the last morning of his life, in a little adobe schoolhouse in the Bolivian high-mountain village La Higuera, Che Guevara ate a bowl of sopa de maní. Here's a vegan recipe for the Bolivian soup from The New York Times
If you're trapped in your bathroom and surrounded by flames which would you do: breathe sewer gas or the choking fumes of a fire?
It wouldn't be Easter without a Peeps post: A Visit to the Peeps Factory (NYTimes)
Castaway Depots were once safe havens for shipwrecked sailors.
Shit did happen: A letter to your hundred year old self (via Tacky Raccoons)
The lost haciendas of the Yucatan They once symbolized the wealth of the region but many have been reclaimed by the jungle.
Charm oozed from him like grease from a sizzling sausage. Everyone called him Steve. When the Klan Ruled Indiana (book excerpt)
The Tenant From Hell... Not your usual landlord-tenant dispute.
A retirement village for senior cats has adorable tiny cottages for the residents.
The voice of the mummy: Have you ever wondered what an ancient human voice sounded like? Listen to a recreation of the voice of a 3000-year-old Egyptian mummy named Nesyamun. (via Memo Of The Air)
The story of The Abertillery and Ebbw Valleys Dynamic, Wales' most distinctive local newspaper
14 Tunnels Made for Walking The only one I'm familiar with is Toronto's Rainbow Tunnel. I've never walked through it but I've seen it a zillion times while driving on the Don Valley Parkway.
If you’re going to breath that that sewer gas it may not permanently harm you but inhaling through that tube in your mouth it would be best to exhale through your mouth also. Exhaling through your nose you’d smell it.
ReplyDeleteAfter checking the attic, I certainly would have tracked down Mrs Browne.
Amazing the mummy voice box hasn’t changed shape and size in 3000 years.
That Kennerdell tunnel is the only one feasible for me and it’s probably closer to you than to me.
xoxoxoBruce
Now I know how to exhale sewer gas. I'm sure this advice will come in handy.
ReplyDeleteFire wouldn't dare come to Mr NAG's house.
ReplyDeletexoxoxoBruce
Thanx for the linky. Been following NOTL on and off for decades. - Bunk / www.TackyRaccoons.com
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