Posted Thu 2nd Aug 2007 at 11:38 am by sooty
Evidently, for many years, there’s been a lot of great music being made by a songwriter/vocalist/fiddler/mandolinist, named, Tim O’Brien, without my knowledge. I stumbled upon a portion of his remarkable output, relatively recently, whilst (and at the same time) watching a PBS broadcast of a Missouri gig featuring songs from his Howdy Skies Records releases, Cornbread Nation and Fiddler’s Green. I would highly recommend these to fans of string band, old-time, and bluegrass musics, but that would be a waste of time for it is an absolute metaphysical certainty they’re already well-acquainted with the brilliant artist. I expect the unique appeal of his work could easily reach well beyond the hardcore fan base if there were greater exposure. Although, this blog is likely to do little to that end, I thought I’d mention it, just the same. Tim O’Brien has a website located here. Book a room at the Dew Drop Inn, say howdy to Tim, and help yourselves to some Cornbread Nation and other tasty morsels!
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Posted Wed 30th May 2007 at 1:07 pm by sooty
Still another item from the Saga of Hog Island added to Anti-War Propaganda, to wit:
A bit of hair-raising exposition by the late James J. Martin on how things aren’t as they seem or are portrayed in officially sanctioned historical narratives.
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Posted Thu 24th May 2007 at 12:25 am by sooty
Yet another article from the Saga of Hog Island added to Anti-War Propaganda, to wit:
This eye-opening piece is not the usual fare one expects in English language wartime cuisine.
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Posted Mon 21st May 2007 at 11:29 pm by sooty
One new article added to Anti-War Propaganda, viz.,
This originally appeared in his second collection of essays in inconvenient history, The Saga of Hog Island, published in 1977. This has been on the to-do list for years, but remains more timely than ever, I’m afraid.
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Posted Tue 27th Mar 2007 at 10:48 am by sooty
A new item to be filed under Anti-War Propaganda at The Memory Hole.
- German White Paper, full text of the Polish documents issued by the Berlin Foreign Office, with a foreword by C. Hartley Grattan
A very important insight into the developments preceding the onset of formal hostilities in 1939.
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Posted Sat 10th Feb 2007 at 12:39 pm by sooty
These are the latest articles to be added to the site. The links will eventually end up in the Anti-War Propaganda section.
More to come in the same section. War is, after all, being exploited anew in these most unpleasant of times.
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Posted Tue 4th Oct 2005 at 9:14 am by sooty
This blog and its domain are dedicated to Ignatia Wildsmith, a character from the wizarding world of J.K. Rowling’s remarkable series of Harry Potter books. According to the HP-Lexicon, she invented floo powder in the 1200s:
This silvery powder…when thrown in the fire, allows magical travel and magical communication between fireplaces connected to the Floo Network. The powder is thrown into the flames, which burst up emerald green. To travel, a witch or wizard steps into the flames and states her or his destination (another fireplace on the network). To communicate, the witch or wizard throws the powder into the flames and inserts only her or his head, again stating ther fireplace to which a connection is desired.
It is managed by the Dept. of Magical Transportation in the Ministry of Magic.
Floo networking is a rather hair-raising method of travel and communication, not to mention the possibilities it holds for getting singed, but it is a proven system that has been adopted here for purposes of travel on the Internetsâ„¢.
Although there is little known about the inventor and she only figures as one of the wizard cards that comes with each chocolate frog, her singular contribution to modes of travel has been enormous. We raise our glasses of Madam Rosmerta’s butterbeer in her honor: To Ignatia Wildsmith, who gave us an alternative way to travel great distances in the shortest amount of time without risk of falling from a great height or being splinched. Cheers!
Incidentally, the likeness of Ignatia was lifted from Jo Rowling’s own website and modified without permission.
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Posted at 8:12 am by sooty
Right, about a year ago, The Memory Hole moved from blancmange.net to a subdomain of floonet.net. We set up an .htaccess file to redirect all links to the former domain to the new one. Which meant keeping the blancmange.net domain for a while, at least. May use it for something more interesting, down the road a short piece.
Most everything was transferred to the new domain, but there remain odd bits of little importance to the site yet to be uploaded or revised.
There are numerous new articles and books in the queue eventually to be added to the site. But things move more slowly these days than in the past. We would list them here, but that would then force us to do something about them. So, we’ll just leave it at that.
Consideration was given to redesign of the site, but that impulse quickly passed. It shall remain in its current state for the foreseeable future.
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