Dusty Mantle

A List of 1,065 Medieval Dog Names: Nosewise, Garlik, Havegoodday & More The Rovers, Fidos, and Spots of the world have been regarded since time immemorial as man's best friends. But they haven't always been named Rover, Fido, and Spot: early fifteenth-century English dog ...

A List of 1,065 Medieval Dog Names: Nosewise, Garlik, Havegoodday & More

In English, if something is suspicious or amiss you could say either “I smell a rat” or “something’s rotten in the state of Denmark.” In Denmark, however, you could say der er ugler i mosen. It means “there are owls in the bog.”

"Decedent" is a word I have written a lot at employment recently. Relatedly, I learned the word "diener", which will take some time to stop looking like a typo, but apparently is American for a mortuary assistant.

The Hills Have Eye

They were going to be in it too! It would have been a more blessed timeline.

werner: does it tell you you're here at San Vincente, close to Sunset Boulevard: interviewer: yeah, it's basically like a Google map werner: but what does pokemon do at this corner here? interviewer: you might be able to catch some. It's all completely virtual. It's very simple, but it's also an overlay of physically based information that now exists on top of the real world. Werner: when two persons in search of a Pokemon clash at the corner of Sunset in San Vicente is there violence? Is there murder? interviewer: they do fight, virtually werner: physically, do they fight? interviewer: the people or the.... werner: yes, there must be real people if it's a real encounter with someone else

Werner Herzog considering Pokemon Go from an interview in 2016

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The almost three-er has discovered the pleasures of pasta adulterated with spicy tomato sauce, but must take a long draught of water between each farfalle. This increased water intake has had an unfortunate effect on ongoing toilet training, most directly upon the carpets of the in-laws.

MAGMAFEST 2025 Brought to you by Hollow Earth Radio KHUH LP Seattle 104.9 FM Friday 8/22 at the Black Lodge Gender Envy Bazaar Kapslok BNH Deluxe Saturday August 23 at Cal Anderson Park Cyra Wirth Astral Trap Tono Deja Moo Sunday August 24 at the Black Lodge Medic! Catica The Rat Utopia Experiment

Hollow Earth Radio presents MagmaFest25, a three day all-ages celebration of music and community. Friday August 22nd through Sunday August 24th at Black Lodge and Cal Anderson Park.

Flyer by @tysynlyn.bsky.social
Sound at Cal Anderson Park provided by bugsandsons

Carved figure with bulgy eyes & protruding tongue on a pew in St Margaret’s church, Cley

Strange little guy from the church in Cley, Norfolk

Today the almost 3-er and I were discussing flowers (a bush that she recently spent some time kissing each bud goodnight). I asked her, what if Linder was a flower on a plant? Would that look strange? "It would be bootiful" she said, with fervency. I can't disagree.

When the moon hits the sky
From his coffin he'll rise
Abaloné

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There's no greater genre of photo than "Leonard Cohen at the computer"

The X-Files (Knees Up Remix), by Max Tundra from the album Before The Tone (Ancient Answerphone Antics)

RIP Mark Snow. Here’s my Cockney “knees up” version of the X-Files theme. maxtundra.bandcamp.com/track/the-x-...

Also, saw this at the supermarket today and thought you might (posthumously) appreciate it:

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Here’s that kids’ ball pit design boss, real fuckin’ ominous 1970s sci-fi, just like you asked

Post a pic of you that's not actually you.

Today at work I learned about ear acupuncture. This evening, after squeezing cooked leeks out using two tea towels, I inadvertently threw the warm, soggy towels into the washing machine. The room was quickly filled with a pervasive, decidedly boggy aroma. In the end I had to put them outside.

Timothy Spall in Mr. Turner voice: "DADDY".

Worms team up to form tentacles when they want to go places Thousands of tiny nematode worms can join up to form tentacle-like towers that can straddle large gaps or hitch rides on larger animals

When tiny worms 🪱 want to go places, they come together in their thousands to form a tentacle-like superorganism 🧪

www.newscientist.com/article/2482...

Bon voyage and bonne chance!

The other Master System games are long gone but inordinate numbers of Monsters In My Pocket still remain, also available to said children.

I am informed that in my absence Myrtle achieved one of her life ambitions and caught and ate a small frog. Linder also took a great interest in this apparently desirable commodity and chased her around the garden trying to get her share. Not sure how Mathilde reacted, probably just with longing.

Woman finds 'one in a billion' spherical egg

Stories like this Rare round egg sells at auction for £420 Published 18 March A picture of a round egg in someone's hand. 'One-in-a-billion' round egg discovered in Devon Published 17 January Alison Greene pictured in the processing unit with a conveyer belt running next to her. She is wearing a green jumper with a black woolly gilet and a blue woolly hat. She has red hair and is holding the brown egg in front of her. Spherical egg sells at auction for £200 Published 16 December 2024 Spherical egg displayed on a green cloth. Man shells out on rare spherical egg in auction Published 17 August 2024

You might be intrigued by the BBC's coverage of a 'one-in-a-billion' find of a spherical hen's egg but I bring you news that the BBC has brought you news of 2 other separate spherical egg finds in the last 9 months alone

Briefly back in rural Norfolk. Went for a walk just now and bore witness to the perky yet mournful strains of steam engine whistles wafting across the fields as the sun lowered; it's not exactly hauntological but it's definitely a niche genre of some sort. Also saw a stray duck on Post Office Road.

IN CONCERT–Alvin Lucier of Brandeis' Slosberg Music Center makes electronic music. Electronic Concert Not Very Amusing By GEORGE GELLES Globe Critic

"Electronic Concert Not Very Amusing" -Boston Globe, February 27 1966

Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer, 2014

Museum display recreating a Saxon burial, with a notice reading: For your safety, please do not touch the items in the Saxon burial or attempt to climb into the grave. (Red House Museum, Christchurch)

If M.R. James wrote safety signage