
I do not want to attract new madness, the old madness does well enough. Here, a summary of various items of fun fact* where *I use the term…
H/t Wulf Hund
I’ve not yet lit the Stalin candle. #trinketization
The news cycle forgets too often, but this https://m.economictimes.com/news/india/mawsynram-and-cherrapunjee-together-get-more-rainfall-in-a-day-than-entire-countrys-average-in-june/articleshow/9…
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h/t Matt Borondy
Too good. It’s one of those lists where you get a point for each one you’ve done. I’m winning. Full dance card. Bring it on. H/t Niel
From one of my shelves, the forever young left guardian of books, and more, forever. Miss you heaps, still. Imogen Bunting
With posts like this postdoc below (at the admirable Claremont network, Pamona Liberal Arts), knowing of course that such jobs are too few and far between, I wonder…
Shopping is civil war. From No Orient – https://norient.com/video/shopping-is-civil-war Discussion of videos from: James Tuovinen 2013 Olimpia Splendid – Jukka Pekka Eric Wareheim 2014 Ham Vla…
A ten-minute walkthrough of the conference programme for the Dec 17-18 ISSH2021, the international conference Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanites, at Ton Duc Thang Univeristy, Vietnam.…
A lockdown post. Looking forward to continuing to explore the city one great meal at a time. Here are some of my notes on La Manufacture d’Opium, at…
The great Pachyderms (obsolete taxonomic category of old) – I’ve written about Ganda the rhino who circumnavigates Africa, from Gujurat to Marseilles in 1515, a gift from Sultan…
Grey rainy day walk with the kids in the Arboretum of Nottingham, the city’s first park set out mid 19th Century. The park contains a monument to the…
Some notes from 2012… Gunnersbury Bagh. (Kill your darlings 10) 26/04/2017 ~ JOHN HUTNYK ~ [A set of cuts that jettison the last underworked section of the book – residue of…
By Theodor Anthony Apollo Hutnyk
Reading Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins’ 2013 book A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism (Global Asias), Oxford: Oxford University Press, and seeing after Robinson, D…
Early coinage – for numismatists: I am reading about Dampier and Jeoly (possible model for the fiction of Friday in Defoe’s Robbo book) and digging into texts about…