Cookit, The History Cookbook This is a very nice little site with historical English recipes. Some look very tasty, others less so but it is a nice view on how food has changed over the centuries, at least in England. One obvious difference is the bits we throw away, other than in hot dogs there [...]
Emily Carroll’s new comic, The Prince and Sea is a short tragic story and well worth reading. I enjoyed her His Face All Red strip and was very pleased to see this one as well. As ever check her web site for some great illustrations as well.
In the late 90s I was at a Holiday Inn in Nottingham England that had no air conditioning during the summer. It was pretty mild, mid-80s during the day and it cooled down nicely at night. I came down to the front desk and got to see a classic melt down, an American tourist going [...]
Cthulhu makes an excellent come back in this brilliant comic Your Glory Days Are Over Mr. Cthulhu.
A photo of a very large squirrel.
This is actually a pretty sad story, but the headline is pretty Summer of Feary so I can’t pass it up: Flying bear kills two Canadians in freak accident. Now we have to watch the skies for bears as well. Great, just great.