This was from yesterday. That’s one block from the Mellow Mushroom, so I know where they were headed. 

It's a fine Friday. We'll sing some good songs.  

A Federal judge knows some lyrics . People have heard about the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas. They have heard about Sand...

VDH has a discussion of Oliver Anthony , the artist Douglas introduced us to just before he became a sensation. After Anthony rails against ...

The State Department today issued a worldwide alert for Americans traveling abroad. It's an Orange Alert worldwide; in the Middle East ...

Grim sent me scrambling off to learn what eremetic means, and I ran into this drawing of St. Seraphim of Sarov , which just seemed appropria...

An incredible photo from the mountains above Waynesville shows snow on the autumn color . 

Two shots from the same location today. 

For a long time it's been clear that Darwinian Natural Selection and random mutation-based Evolution couldn't be the whole story. Fo...

Yesterday AVI had a post called " Mountains and Nature " that was, I think, allied with his series of posts about naturalism, vege...

In an article AVI linked from the New Criterion , there is an aside that happens to align with something I was thinking about myself recentl...

Speaking of drinks and history, here is an article on a Scottish oat-milk-whiskey concoction with a folk tale background. Along the way you...

A British writer notes a long, appalling trend. 

My associate in France — Cannes— sent this picture this morning: They’ve deployed 7,000 soldiers to their streets following a stabbing atta...

Tasting History is a worthwhile YouTube channel on historical cooking. He presents historical recipes with some background and then tries th...

 A band to keep an eye on?

  Mirabile dictu : nobody in Western North Carolina has mentioned it to me either. I'm fielding a lot of questions about it from friends...

It’s made of honey. Since I’m doing Beorn’s Hall this week, I decided to brew a batch of mead. I do this in five-gallon batches. This is ten...

Beorning Honey Cakes. Recipe first, then I'll talk about it after the jump. 1 cup warm water 2 1/4 teaspoons yeast 1 stick plus 2 tables...