Lila Prime

I have no particular, publicly-declarable goals to commemorate the incrementing of our calendar year, except that --- as always --- I want t...

The curtain closes on 2015 and my furious, year-end sprint to clear my blog queue, or at least slow its rate of growth. I am trying to tag a...

Another couple months, another set of life experiences and retrospective thoughts about them, posted to the internet for all of noisy poster...

The fire brigades and construction squads just could not  catch a break with Osaka Castle. "The center of the castle is called Homm...

Shaun le mouton  is a clever little lamb,the clear bellwether of his flock and a clever manipulator of human and canine mental states. He mo...

Once again I have spent my month sporadically picking over my giant pile of drafted posts. The retroblogging continues! ( Previously .) Here...

The ciiiiiiiiiii-iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-iiiiiiiiii-iiiiiiiiiiircle of life! It turns! The stars wheel around (as do we), and another year has pass...

Phew and egads! I finished rereading Infinite Jest . Relief is accompanied by psychic emptiness, a hollow longing to experience the entire ...

Happy π day!* Adapting to my locale, I used mirabelles (illegal to import to the US!) and a toaster oven to celebrate. The severe limitat...

An instance in which the precision and clarity of the writing (and sad continued state of the English language) means that the word "mo...

Ann Leckie 's Ancillary Sword  is the sequel to Ancillary Justice , her knockout first scifi novel. All the excellent elements are there...

I encounter Australians when I do my laundry. Every. Single. Time. They peer at the machines (labelled in French) and the posters of ins...

Even Parisian natives tell me that the view from my apartment is picturesque. This cloud came down to visit, and blocked my view of the t...

This window display looks like a strange, associative word puzzle. Disembodied legs and acorns?  I don't get it. Ankle scales? Acorn ...

I swear, I was on my way to see the jarl when I got distracted by these window-boxes of that one herb I'm collecting for a side-quest. ...

Yep. This warning infographic is completely clear: Possible interpretation: "do not use front crawl to race powered watercraft!...

The framing suggests one direction of gravity; the framed, another. Dark silhouettes in the foreground give no additional hints. Overhead...

Skyrim or Switzerland? Ok, the child with glasses is a giveaway. Yes, that's right: Skyrim*! (*modded) What you can't feel in t...

It seems that cookies do grow on trees! At least, macarons  do: Yet another fantastic Parisian window-display. It seems a shame to waste ...

Quaint and picturesque, with vines growing over the trellised arch above the entrance. Yes, that's right: It's the sapeuprs-pompi...