Widely Ranging Interests

Holiday edition:  ebullience.  Battle of the Santas.  Inadequate Christmas in Iceland.  Terrifying fishermen.  Graffiti.  Brown Jesus.

 

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Wikipedia: tool for good or ill?  Lady pirates and armed Irishmen.  The pleasure of terror.  Etymology of the balaclava.

 

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Richard Burton and the Lake Region.  Armchair travel.  Definite articles and the initial “I.”  The Dark Continent redux.  Royal Dutch Shell.  Meditation on quality.

 

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The Alsace.  European politics, the Turk, and royalty.  Tale of an ice cream maker.  Meat; sports logos.  Noisomeness of attacking oil companies.

 

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A long beginning: cheese.  Steelhead trout.  Ethnicity of panhandlers.  Life cycle of the mosquito.  Unsatisfactory aspects of Boston.  Rock gods.

 

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