Father Knows Best: Eclectic Late July Edition

Farm in rural Hamilton Township; Northumberland County, Ontario.

Wintery Knight: Friday night movie: Cyrano de Bergerac (1950); Friday night movie: Midway (1976)

Oz Conservative: John Dickson Batten; Another Grimshaw

Borepatch: I am so doing this; Tastes like chicken

Social Extinction: An apparition on the Red Line train this morning and the dawn of a coming doom…

Hans Fiene: The Dirty Practice of Infant Baptism

Erik Flowers:  No one said they wanted faster horses, they wanted less horseshit

Linda Besner: More Awkward Than Ever

Calum Marsh: The Uniquely Repetitive World of Jim Jarmusch

John Michael McGrath: Is Competent Authoritarianism Too Much to Ask For?

Jacob Shamsian: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis’ friendship will be the subject of a new film

Thomas Frank: Veiled Pensioners of the Mystic Sofa

Nicole Cliffe: Every Canadian Novel Ever

God and the Machine: 5 Minutes, 17 British Accents; Piercing the Unicorn

Literate Comments: Steely Dan Live in Kansas City – A Small Taste

Old Life Theological Society: It’s Like A Film Festival On Your Laptop and Everyone’s Invited

The Heidelblog: Graphic Calvin

Cody C. Delistraty: Commercializing the Counterculture: How the Summer Music Festival Went Mainstream

Mark Byrnes: Saving Sam the Record Man’s Giant Spinning Discs

Blowhard, Esq.: NYC Notes, Part 3: The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park

Gideon Lewis-Kraus: The Fasinatng … Frustrating … Fascinating History of Autocorrect

Ann Sterzinger: Liberty Island Media, Part II: The Long Slog of Roy Griffis

Taki: Deutschland, Deutschland!; My Kind of Dragon; Cruising the Med

Andy Nowicki: So Rude

Bill Kauffman: Still America First

Noah Millman: All Bad Poetry Is Sincere: Man of La Mancha at the Stratford Festival

Jonathan Coppage: Welcome

Christopher Kemp: On the (Very Smelly) Trail of the Skunk Takeover

Jason Peters: Something’s Fishy–But Not Very–At Dinnertime

R.J. Snell: Rollin Coal and the Empire of Desire

Dan Piepenbring: Bayou Medicine

Eugene Girin:  Italy Travelogue: Milan, Part I; Milan, Part II; Venice; Bergamo; Florence; Rome

Ray Olson: Why you should see the silents, part I

Jeff Minick: Ready, Aim, Fire: Men, Marksmanship, and Public Urinals

Matt Forney: People with Real Lives Don’t Need Landscapes by John Dolan

Edward Morrissey: What I learned from totally unplugging and shutting up for three days

Sarah Eberspacher: Your next summer getaway: An East German bunker

Jenny McGruther: In praise of lard (and how to render your own)

Taylor Schwartz: How to pack a jar salad

Kristen Miglore: The secret to Gabrielle Hamilton’s amazing grilled cheese sandwiches

Scott Meslow: What if The Purge was real?

Steve Sailer: A Better MacGuffin for “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”; Is “Planet of the Apes” Anti-bonoboist?; Johnny Winter, RIP; A Little Over the Top, But Still …; What It’s Like to be a Teacher: “Differentiated Instruction” by TeachBad

Shattered Light: Karitane, winter, low tide; Mist studies and slowing down a d800

Tau Zero: Utah Morning Scene; Wyoming Rainbow 2

Rural Revolution: Prepping for Portland;  First day of sales

A Curious Gal: Duluth or Duloot

Shouting Thomas: Why Use YouTube Backing Tracks?

Masculine Style: Summer 2014; What to Pack for a Business Trip

“Weird Al” Yankovic – Word Crimes

Trenton, Ontario.