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“Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) issued a call for Christians to meet the “shocking and historic” election with a “historic” response: an hour-long fast on December 15 at the Capitol.”
Seriously? A whole hour? Self-sacrifice knows no limits.
@ai6yr Surprised you have not yet linked to this https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw8dzn8n1q65o
New episode: Black Pudding in Ireland
No matter what you think of black pudding, surely it is only reasonable to expect that it is made from actual blood. Most of it isn’t, a casualty of the push for big meat-processing plants whose main purpose it to put cheap muscle meat on supermarket shelves.
Kate Ryan, author of Blood, Guts and Black Pudding: Ireland’s Dying Art of Blood as Food, explains.
Intrigued by newsletter subscribers coming from mailwal.com. At first sight, they seem as if they might be AI agents (numerical username) but having looked at the site, maybe they’re not. Maybe the site is ingesting them for AI. No idea.
Anyone know more?
A long way round for a very costly coffee. Coffeeneuring ride No. 7
I have taken to sharing the more interesting longer pieces I have read each week. Today, two takes on urban life, animal and human, and an exciting disappointment.
How not to feed the world
“someday I hope to write an anthropological account of ecomodernism as a doomed millenarian religious-political movement of the West, where people abandoned rationality to pursue the mysteries and passions of their neo-religious commitment to getting food out of thin air, limitless energy, perpetual progress and other such cargo above the humdrum reality of embodied and locally-emplaced work.”
I’d read it, for sure.
Follow the Money on MAHA. It Doesn’t Lead to Our Kids
“measure progress the way an analyst would. Not by speeches, but by final rules, share prices and who profits.”
Sage advice.
Monthly roundup for October, including a new approach to quantifying one aspect of my self.
@jon where does Naples Berlin direct in 2027 score on the bullshit meter?
A total bust for Coffeeneuring Challenge No. 6.
But wait! This just in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTybe1wQtxY&list=RDLTybe1wQtxY&start_radio=1
Thanks to https://thebobdylanfanclub.com/season-one-episodes/#halloween
This will have to do, because I cannot for the life of me find the version that Bob Dylan shared on his Theme Time Radio Hour, many, many hours ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVBz13CWwvM&list=RDNVBz13CWwvM&start_radio=1
Olives successfully harvested. A good haul, 750 g, but individually quite small. Better give the tree a good feed next spring. Now to cure them and wait.
An unbuilt monument, testing twins, and a contentful book. This week’s collection of things I enjoyed reading.
€7 for a cappuccino! Worth it in one way, an absolute scandal in another.
Sincere thanks to everyone, not least because you all agree with one another! I am going to send her the information and hope we do not have to unravel.
Down in the centro, there are two bars of great note, and everyone has a strong preference for one or the other. No clear winner. Me, I prefer Sant Eustachio
New episode: Mapping What Really Matters
What do you do when you open Google Maps to get directions to a restaurant that you know is good and quite nearby, and it simply isn't there? If you're Lauren Leek, you scrape details of every single restaurant in London and build your own unbiassed version of London's food map.
Today, in the annals of spam blog comments, on a post about whole-wheat bread:
"This product works quite well. It romantically improves my golf by a lot.”
Which brings to mind the famous Johnny Carson (IIRC) exchange about “keeping his putter straight”.
Towards wygiwym is a valuable reminder of why wysiwyg was always a trap for the unwary. Hard to believe that this still needs saying in 2026. Some of us have been railing against people who ought to know better tinkering with layout since the dawn of time, but there it is.
Another errand-run enlivened by a coffee in service of coffeeneuring.
Eat This Newsletter 318: Hindsight
Looking back, at gourds and pumpkins as anomalies, at invented gastronationalism, at a rice bowl, at the ur-parents of citrus, and at the potato as social signifier.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-318-hindsight/
Just put the finishing touches to tomorrow’s Eat This Newsletter, and sharing it early here because it involves mastodons and anachronistic fruit.
What are you waiting for? Sign up at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas
I got kinda sorta nerd-sniped into joining the weeknote throng. So here goes.
Today in rolling my eyes while reading:
🙄 “He had a PhD in corporate courage development”
It being a perfect autumnal morning, with warm sunshine, blue skies, and just a touch of freshness in the air, we took ourselves off to the Terme di Caracalla for a Cultural Quickie®. The primary purpose was an exhibit of photos by Frank Horvat but the ruins of the baths are themselves always worth a visit.
https://jeremycherfas.net/blog/frank-horvat-at-the-terme-di-caracalla