Happy Birthday P G:
#^Paris Review – P. G. Wodehouse Was Born Today in 1881, Dan Piepenbring http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/10/15/love-among-the-chickens/



Read an excerpt from “Love Among the Chickens, one of his earlier novels and strangest.

#ticketyboo

What time zone are you in?

I hope he’s OK.

Quote from The Return of Sherlock Holmes – You mentioned your name, as if I should recognize it, but I assure you that, beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.”

Oui.

Rain helps my mood in general.

Still battling my sinuses, but buoyed by the weather forecast for the next several days: rain with a chance of more rain. #pluviophile

This is out of control:
#^‘Massacre’ threat forces Anita Sarkeesian to cancel university talk

Anita Sarkeesian, creator of the popular Tropes vs. Women video series, is at the center of yet another death threat. The Standard Examiner reports that the director of Utah State University’s…

The pugnacious cover http://vox.a2c3.co/attachment/369

Rereading Sherlock Holmes:
Found this at a library sale for $.50 #thriftprivateer

I love this “action” cover from Penguin Books 1981



Ronald Adair was fond of cards—playing continually, but never for such stakes as would hurt him. He was a member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the Bagatelle card clubs. It was shown that, after dinner on the day of his death, he had played a rubber of whist at the latter club. He had also played there in the afternoon. The evidence of those who had played with him—Mr. Murray, Sir John Hardy, and Colonel Moran—showed that the game was whist, and that there was a fairly equal fall of the cards. Adair might have lost five pounds, but not more. His fortune was a considerable one, and such a loss could not in any way affect him.
—The Empty House in The Return of Sherlock Holmes http://ur1.ca/idfny by Arthur Conan Doyle

Cold War artifact:
#^David Greenglass, Spy who Helped Seal the Rosenbergs Doom Dies at 92 http://vox.a2c3.co/url/366

Jim: Becker sometimes you sound like a cop
Becker: I am a cop
Jim: That must be it
#RockfordFiles

Sounds delicious!

Happy birthday Evan P! Thanks for all your work on the Fediverse.

Also oranges steamed with lavender sugar…they become like a pudding. http://vox.a2c3.co/attachment/364

#Congee with plenty of ginger is just the ticket. #undertheweather

So how did MSG get its bad reputation?:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate

hmmm…

#^Cyan agrees to ‘Myst’ TV deal – The Spokesman-Review http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/oct/14/cyan-agrees-to-myst-tv-deal/

“Myst,” the popular Spokane-made video game that became a cultural icon, will be turned into a live-action TV series. Cyan Worlds, the maker of “Myst” and several later versions of the game, announced it has signed a deal with Burbank, California-based Legendary Pictures to make a video version of the time-traveling story on which the game is based.

It’s time:
#^Teen activist files lawsuit challenging FDA ban on gay blood donors http://vox.a2c3.co/url/355

WASHINGTON – A young gay rights activist has filed what is believed to be the first federal lawsuit challenging the U. S. Food and Drug Administration’s ban on gay and bisexual men from donating blood. Virginia resident Caleb Laieski, 19, filed his suit Thursday in U.S. District Court, and alleges that the FDA ban is discriminatory and unconstitutional…

“Gold, sugar, slaves, this Caribbean trinity represented an enormous accession of wealth and power. Not surprisingly, Spain’s imperialist rivals insisted on their share. The Caribbean islands began their association with modern society as the pawn of European power politics, the cockpit of Europe, the arena of Europe’s wars hot and cold.”
—from From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969 by Eric Williams