Scholars knew the work about Guillaume d’Orange and the bloody siege of his city existed, but until now believed it had been lost completely https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/18/fragment-of-lost-12th-century-epic-poem-found-in-another-books-binding
Shelby Foote said, “A writer’s like anybody else except when he’s writing.” https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/931/the-art-of-fiction-no-158-shelby-foote
>>Everything I have to say about the writing of history was summoned up by John Keats in ten words in a letter, more or less like a telegram put on the wire nearly two hundred years ago. He said, “A fact is not a truth until you love it.” You have to become attached to the thing you’re writing about—in other words, “love it”—for it to have any real meaning.
The world's hardest cheese? https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20211005-chhurpi-the-worlds-hardest-cheese
No modern musical can approach the absolute spectacle of the royal costume parties that played out on stage during the English Renaissance. https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/10/21/there-was-no-business-like-show-business-in-ye-olde-english-royal-court/
Icey what they did there: Vermont school students participated in the state's Name a Plow contest. Among the names that will appear on snowplows this year: Captain Snowpants; Yo Bro, No Snow; and Jennifer Snowpez.
https://apnews.com/article/oddities-education-vermont-04ad486b6fde64ff46b6b01de3199990
There's a link between being kind to others and happiness, UBC researcher says
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/world-kindness-day-1.6245696
Julian Fellowes: Think Downton, but in New...
HBO: Do it.
Fellowes: My budget is pretty hi...
HBO: Here's the credit card
Me: I'm IN
Epidemiologists analyze the health risks in all the James Bond films. As one does. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/you-only-live-once-epidemiologists-analyze-health-risks-in-all-the-james-bond-films/
This is a great story. Worth your time. https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/qwgut4/the_case_of_the_missing_server/
TV and movies are finally celebrating older women. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/us/tv-movies-hollywood-women.html
Manufacturers sold almost 204 billion cigarettes in the United States last year, a 0.4% increase on 2019, marking the first year that cigarette sales have grown in almost 20 years. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/10/27/1049638567/cigarette-sales-increase-smoking-pandemic
Munchy, a search engine to discover recipes... a work in progress, but interesting https://joinmunchy.com
Your wayback machine to 1994, and the Microsoft new employee orientation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmW4JjR2-_8
My wife yelled from the bedroom asking, "Do you ever get a shooting pain across your body like someone's got a voodoo doll of you and they're stabbing it?"
I replied, "No."
She yelled back, "How about now?" #jokes
"Penguin Random House has taken on a truly ambitious project to re-record all 40 audiobooks from Sir Terry Pratchett’s bestselling Discworld series, featuring a cast of leading names from British stage and screen, with the first subseries publishing in April 2022." Starring Bill Nighy.
https://discworld.com/bill-night-stars-as-the-voice-of-terry-pratchett-new-recording-entire-discworld/
Fact check: Editors do not, in fact, do this. https://twitter.com/TheAdamSass/status/1460869236264296448
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.