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Storied Colors - "Storied Colors is a catalogue of named colors — pigments, dyes, lakes, glazes, and a small number of digital hues — each accompanied by the documentary evidence required to call it by its name." Fascinating site cataloging over 250 colors, with a new one dropped every Sunday. Robust search feature that lets you filter by era, hue, status, source, lightfastness, year first documented and tags.
A look at search engines with their own indexes - Not sure how I came across this one but it's a blog post about search engines. The author says these are all the ones they were able to find and they intend for this to be a living document. It was originally written in 2021 and updated in 2025.
SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide - I heard about this when ICT News interviewed the author. This part graphic novel/part art work is part of a larger collective of work in various media that "...seeks to reimagine Indigenous life and culture in a postcolonial world where space exploration has reduced and reconfigured the earth’s population." What I appreciate about this particular work is it's a 1970s military survival guide that has been redacted and edited with artwork. I find that deliciously subversive.

8 days before surgery. At 10 days out I had to stop taking my Diclofenac, which is an NSAID. They make you stop NSAIDs prior to surgery to minimize bleeding risks. I do not want that however, I am currently hating life. I wasn't even moving very well when on it but it was keeping me going and really knocked down the pain. Now I'm hardly going at all and I hurt so much. I can still take Tylenol but it's not doing much. I was hoping to prep the house, precook some meals, etc. but ... fuck. That might not be happening.

I have been online shopping like crazy, trying to think of what I might need to help me post-surgery. My quest for items has been somewhat hampered by my refusal to shop via Amazon, Target or Walmart but not only did I manage to find supplies through a company not on my personal Do Not Buy list, they were lightning quick getting here. I think I have everything I'll need. I've quizzed a friend who had a different type of hip surgery and have also been reading the TotalHipReplacement subreddit which has had a lot of useful information.

Listening

Some podcasts (and YouTube videos) I've been listening to:

The YouTube algorithm coughed up a band I'd never heard of before, the Middle Aged Dad Jam Band. The particular song was Heartbreaker with Tia Carrere singing. It was so awesome! (And Tia looks *fantastic*.) I listened to some more of their covers after that one and really enjoyed it.

Speaking of covers, Best Son brought this version of Tell Me Something Good by Yvonne Fair to my attention and wow! So funky! I love it. There are some CDs available on Discogs and I'm thinking about adding one to my collection.

Best Son also shared with me a clip from the Jimmy Fallon Show which was the cast of Broadway's Rocky Horror Picture Show singing Sweet Transvestite. I think Rocky Horror is so fun. I remember going to the movie theater to see it when I was a teen and having the "props" (newspaper, rice, can't remember what else) to use along with the movie and the live cast. And a couple of years ago Best Son and I went to see a theater production of it in Phoenix, which was great.

Reading

So last week was an intense reading section - there was lots going on! And wouldn't you know that on top of all of that, once I got the blog posted, I received a notice from the library that I was first in line for There is No Antimemetics Division, which Best Son highly recommended to me. It is clearly a popular book because at one point the wait was so long Libby didn't even give me a time frame. I haven't started it yet because I'm still finishing up 2 books.

I'm pretty sure I will be finishing up both books tonight because I'm so close to the end on both of them: The Alchemist's Cat by Robin Jarvis and The Memory of the Ogisi by Moses Ose Utomi. Absolutely loving everything about the latter book. Probably won't be reading the rest of series the former is in. The book just isn't really grabbing me PLUS heinous things happen to some cats. Had I known about that, I wouldn't even have started the book.

Watching

I've got some series lined up and saved for post-surgery recovery - season 2 of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Starfleet Academy and the last season of Only Murders in the Building. Other than that, I've just been watching the YouTube channels I follow.

Link Lagniappe

Print Gallery of an Artist: A brief exploration of recursive spaces - fun little platformer game! I had to stop before finishing because it was making me dizzy but the graphics are cool.
An "art car" parade (Houston, 2025) - This is a post from one of the blogs I follow, TYWKIWDBI. He shows off some screencaps from a 2 hour long YouTube video of The 38th Annual Houston Art Car Parade (and links to the video). For video viewing, he recommends, "best approached for casual viewing by clicking along the scrubber bar at the bottom." I haven't looked through the whole video yet but some of the art cars are just awesome!
Pipe Dreams - a shrine to Yahoo Pipes, which "...was a web application from Yahoo! that provided a graphical user interface for building data mashups that aggregate web feeds, web pages, and other services; creating Web-based apps from various sources; and publishing those apps." - Wikipedia
Pictureofhotdog.com - this reminds me of the weird stuff you could find back in the glory days of the old web
Kittenwar! - click to vote on which is the cutest kitten pic. *You* always win, because you get to see cute kitten pics!
Pinball Map - "Founded in 2008, Pinball Map is an open source, crowdsourced worldwide map of public pinball machines." You never know where you might be when the urge to play some pinball hits!
I Want My MTV - Rewind - 67 channels, a chance to interact with other users, play MTV Music Jeopardy, submit your own playlist and get into the rotation.
1912 Eighth Grade Examination for Bullitt County Schools - Interesting look at what children were expected to know at one time. Could you pass this test? (via Nag on the Lake)
Meet ‘Snuffleupagus,’ a newfound fish sporting shaggy camouflage
Culcitology (QUILTS) with Luke Haynes, Olivia Joseph, and Joe Cunningham - almost 2 hour long podcast episode that I have not listened to yet but it looks so interesting! "Scrap quilts. Sewing bees. Secret codes. Political activism. Controversies. Three of your new favorite Culcitologists – Olivia Joseph, Luke Haynes, and Joe Cunningham – are stitched together for one mega episode on one of the most underappreciated and widely practiced arts in the world: quilting. We cover donated quilts, galleries vs. linen closets, incarcerated quilters, the ONE person you do not want to enter a fair with, quilting and covid, the Gee’s Bend Alabama quilters who turned modern art criticism on its head, and the icons you need to know about. Also: washing, preserving, appraising, repairing, and enjoying quilts. It’ll change the way you interact with your aunt, your local thrift store, art shows, and your very bed itself."

OK, that's about it for this week!

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