Autumn Ways is the most recent series of line and ink drawings by noted California artist Caedryn Pierce. Now showing at the Meadows Institute through the end of 2020.
Monthly Archives: November 2020
Solution
Robert may have come up with a solution that solves one of humanity’s most vexing problems.
Consider the bathroom towel rack, and its propensity to work itself loose. Often because of its customary use of a tiny set screw used to attach it to the wall.
Now consider blue locktite.
I think you see where Robert went with this.
He will spend the rest of his day on the Nobel application for dispatch to Stockholm this weekend.
Trouble
This is what it looks like when Robert gets into trouble.
Food Videos
Well, this YouTube Channel Looks good. Lots of good looking Mexican food. Is it Mexican?
https://www.youtube.com/c/lacapitalcocina/videos
For example:
Rory’s Reads
Rory recently finished these. Ask him how he liked them!
In the Garden of Beasts
Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
Set in Berlin in 1933-1934, the book tells the story of America’s first ambassador to Nazi Germany, William E. Dodd, and his daughter Martha, as they experience the rising terror of Hitler’s rule. At first Martha is enthralled by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich, with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the “New Germany,” she has one affair after another, including with the surprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. Her father resolves not to prejudge the new government, but soon the shadows deepen. Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance—and ultimately horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder unmasks Hitler’s true character and ruthless ambition.
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Published on January 3, 2017
A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world’s densest jungle.
Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God–but then committed suicide without revealing its location.
Salt
An unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World
In his fifth work of nonfiction, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of humankind. A substance so valuable it served as currency, salt has influenced the establishment of trade routes and cities, provoked and financed wars, secured empires, and inspired revolutions. Populated by colorful characters and filled with an unending series of fascinating details, Salt is a supremely entertaining, multi-layered masterpiece.
