Peregrinations

Random musings, photographs, sounds, moving pictures and updates from Whit Richardson, multimedia journalist

Nov 11
theatlantic: inothernews: The story of In Flanders Fields, one of history’s most memorable wartime poems. (h/t brnttecnfessns) One of our favorites here at The Atlantic

theatlantic:

inothernews:

The story of In Flanders Fields, one of history’s most memorable wartime poems.

(h/t brnttecnfessns)

One of our favorites here at The Atlantic
Posted at 12:12 PM 322 notes
Source: inothernews

Sep 7
Lapham’s Quarterly tumbles my essay on the history of aquaculture laphamsquarterly: Aquaculture is the fastest growing form of food production in the world, and in Ancient Rome, keeping fish was always preferred to catching it. Here are some examples of what agriculture writer Columella suggests feeding your ancient Roman fish, from our latest Roundtable blog:  1. “green fruit of the apple-kind” 2. “new cheese or curds out of the milk-pail” 3. “rotten sardines”  4. “all the garbage of salted fish, which are swept out of fishmongers shops” Fish love apples! And other fish! “The Mastery of Fish” (LQ Roundtable)

Lapham’s Quarterly tumbles my essay on the history of aquaculture

laphamsquarterly:

Aquaculture is the fastest growing form of food production in the world, and in Ancient Rome, keeping fish was always preferred to catching it. Here are some examples of what agriculture writer Columella suggests feeding your ancient Roman fish, from our latest Roundtable blog: 

1. “green fruit of the apple-kind”

2. “new cheese or curds out of the milk-pail”

3. “rotten sardines” 

4. “all the garbage of salted fish, which are swept out of fishmongers shops”

Fish love apples! And other fish!

“The Mastery of Fish” (LQ Roundtable)
Posted at 2:37 PM 41 notes
Source: laphamsquarterly

Dig the cover of the new LQ. Can’t wait for it to arrive. laphamsquarterly: Open the seventh seal! The Future issue of Lapham’s Quarterly is upon us! Yes, that’s right, for the first time LQ will zoom forward with over eighty thousand centuries of texts when our Fall issue hits newsstands in less than a month. We’ve got prophecies, oracles, new technologies, and plenty of forward-looking individuals including Ada Lovelace, Ray Bradbury, Thomas Paine, Filippo Marinetti, Yevgeny Zamyatin, and many, many more.  Soothsayers would tell you to subscribe now in order to have The Future waiting for you when it comes out on September 15. Heed our words or be doomed! 

Dig the cover of the new LQ. Can’t wait for it to arrive.

laphamsquarterly:

Open the seventh seal! The Future issue of Lapham’s Quarterly is upon us! Yes, that’s right, for the first time LQ will zoom forward with over eighty thousand centuries of texts when our Fall issue hits newsstands in less than a month.

We’ve got prophecies, oracles, new technologies, and plenty of forward-looking individuals including Ada Lovelace, Ray Bradbury, Thomas Paine, Filippo Marinetti, Yevgeny Zamyatin, and many, many more. 

Soothsayers would tell you to subscribe now in order to have The Future waiting for you when it comes out on September 15. Heed our words or be doomed! 
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Source: laphamsquarterly

Jun 21
A new batch of Tintin adventures would be unbelievable if done right. fuzzytypewriter: docshaner: A Tintin I drew on a sketch card. If you look hard enough and know your Adventures of Tintin well enough you should be able to pick out all the locations. There is no question. If I could resurrect any classic comic, it’d be Tintin with @docshaner at the helm. 

A new batch of Tintin adventures would be unbelievable if done right.

fuzzytypewriter:

docshaner:

A Tintin I drew on a sketch card. If you look hard enough and know your Adventures of Tintin well enough you should be able to pick out all the locations.

There is no question. If I could resurrect any classic comic, it’d be Tintin with @docshaner at the helm. 
Posted at 3:58 PM 47 notes
Source: docshaner

Jun 14
I like imagining I live in a sci-fi universe, but I’m sure the future will scare the heck out of some people. laughingsquid: Airbus Reveals What Air Travel Will Look Like in 2050; The Cabin Will Offer Panoramic Views

I like imagining I live in a sci-fi universe, but I’m sure the future will scare the heck out of some people.

laughingsquid:

Airbus Reveals What Air Travel Will Look Like in 2050; The Cabin Will Offer Panoramic Views
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Source: abcworldnews

Are those camels on Catan? Why yes, yes they are.

Are those camels on Catan? Why yes, yes they are.
Posted at 5:23 PM

“The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.” Steven Pressfield, from his book Do the Work
Posted at 5:17 PM

Nov 23
laughingsquid: The Adventures of Tintin In The World of H.P. Lovecraft

laughingsquid:

The Adventures of Tintin In The World of H.P. Lovecraft
Posted at 2:18 PM 99 notes
Source: Laughing Squid

Nov 15
“It may sound like I’ve got some sort of formula by which I write. Hell, no! You’re out there completely on your own—all you’ve got to do is write. OK, it’s nine in the morning. All I’ve got to do is write. But I go hours before I’m able to write a word. I make tea. I mean, I used to make tea all day long. And exercise, I do that every other day. I sharpened pencils in the old days when pencils were sharpened. I just ran pencils down. Ten, eleven, twelve, one, two, three, four—this is every day. This is damn near every day. It’s four-thirty and I’m beginning to panic. It’s like a coiling spring. I’m really unhappy. I mean, you’re going to lose the day if you keep this up long enough. Five: I start to write. Seven: I go home. That happens over and over and over again. So why don’t I work at a bank and then come in at five and start writing? Because I need those seven hours of gonging around. I’m just not that disciplined. I don’t write in the morning—I just try to write.” John McPhee on his writing process. From an interview in The Paris Review (No. 192 Spring 2010)
Posted at 11:28 AM

Nov 1
Did you know Maine was the first dry state? It enacted anti-liquor laws 70 years before federal Prohibition. Have you heard of the Portland Rum Riot? Militia fired on a mob in what is now Monument Square, killing one man and ruining the political career of Portland’s zealous anti-liquor mayor, Neal Dow. If you are interested in learning more, read my current article in Down East magazine about the little-known Prohibition history of Portland, Maine: The Great Rum Riot.

Did you know Maine was the first dry state? It enacted anti-liquor laws 70 years before federal Prohibition.

Have you heard of the Portland Rum Riot? Militia fired on a mob in what is now Monument Square, killing one man and ruining the political career of Portland’s zealous anti-liquor mayor, Neal Dow.

If you are interested in learning more, read my current article in Down East magazine about the little-known Prohibition history of Portland, Maine: The Great Rum Riot.
Posted at 10:17 AM

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