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Game night and Detroit pizza at Al's. Great friends, great food and Claire's incredible cherry pie for dessert!

Came across this over the weekend. Sumo wrestlers in 1885. Slight dietary change.

I did not realise that he was born in the same county as me - Co Durham in the North East of England. He was from here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horden He seems to have learnt a lot from HP Lovecraft's style, including tales about Cthulu. Still 86 is not too shabby an innings. RIP Brian Lumley

I have done a lot of listening in the last week, but here is what I am listening to - now Band On The Run by Paul McCartney (1973 (2024)) https://album.link/i/1717135189 Example: Underdubbed? - Yep. This is pretty much the original version and mix of the album - without the overdubbing and orchestration and extras added. -- Much more of a rock album. I really have to try to listen to it with new ears. Forget what I know and hear what is there, not what isn't. The example is such a Jam.. I know this album so well, I am not sure I would have liked this album better than the original on release (first listen of both), but I know I sure like it now.

Why Is Music Journalism Collapsing? This is a bigger problem that you can fix with a Pitchfork https://www.honest-broker.com/p/why-is-music-journalism-collapsing

Milled more handrails. Same design but these are out of Redwood for the exterior stairs.

All the Sumo stuff is giving me flashbacks to our time in Jakarta. The TV was limited...this was 97-98. So the wife loves sports and really got into watching Japanese Sumo which was on frequently. She even had her favorite...short but powerful and a champ. Aging myself yet once again...LOL. HS

In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisco https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/rebecca-solnit/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley

Drinking or eating... I'm not proud regardless....LOL. HS

Love my niche zero. There's something about it...the design is simple. It weighs enough that it's substantial which for whatever reason one often correlates to quality. It's uber low maintenance. The wife hasn't said much so apparently it's not a big eye sore. Great purchase IMHO. I bought a bunch of Intelligentsia coffees. The Celebration has been really good....so much so I gifted a bag to our neighbors. Definitely better value for money than Onyx Coffee, but I keep going back to them now and again... HS

...so here we are again and this time it is much, much worse. It started just before 8am here and this was taken just as day was breaking, around 10:15am. This is right next to the town and a second fissure has opened up inside the town so yeah... this is not good. Now the town was evacuated quickly but the first houses have already been consumed by the lava and it can go only one way, through the town and into the sea. There was a serious accident this week in the town where a man was buried alive when he was trying to stabilize some of the fractures in the earth. They searched for two days but couldn't find him so it was decided to abandon the town yesterday.