"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

#Spooktober 28: Bread of the Dead

I’m sure you know the Mexican pan de muerto, but we have something similar in Northern Italy and I thought I’d give you the recipe today. Since I’m not much of a cook, it’s free to read to minimize my responsibility in any collateral damage.
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Comunicazione 101

Cara Trenitalia, Quando ero ragazza, ogni tanto mi capitava di prendere il treno da Milano a Tirano, per raggiungere i miei genitori in vacanza sul lago. È un viaggio verso nord, attraverso la Brianza Felix, che molto presto trasforma la campagna in una collina boscosa

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March 13, 2026 12:27 pm
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The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red + Artificial Condition

We’ve been watching Murderbot, a tv series on AppleTv starring Alexander Skarsgård (the guy who thought this picture would be the best way to officially represent him on IMDB), David Dastmalchian (he was Piter De Vries in the latest Dune, some of you might remember

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March 13, 2026 9:00 am
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Werewolves Wednesday: George MacDonald’s The Gray Wolf

ONE evening — twilight in spring, a young English student, who had wandered northwards as far as the outlying fragments of Scotland called the Orkney and Shetland Islands, found himself on a small island of the latter group, caught in a storm of wind and

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March 12, 2026 9:00 am
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March 13, 2026

Cara Trenitalia, Quando ero ragazza, ogni tanto mi capitava di prendere il treno da Milano a Tirano, per raggiungere i miei genitori in vacanza sul lago. È un viaggio verso nord, attraverso la Brianza Felix, che molto presto trasforma la campagna in una collina boscosa

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