A friend just asked for help with sourdough pizza crust. Here are a few prior posts on sourdough pizza: Sourdough pizza crust doesn't take much work This post is a… Read the rest of the article: Sourdough pizza recipes and technique

Here are two lists of e-books being made freely available on-line. Please add more in the comments! PublicBooks.org's Public Books Database This is a list of academic presses making their… Read the rest of the article: Resources for free e-books and entertainment stuffs

If you enjoyed Rysa Walker's Chronos Files, you'll love Now, Then and Everywhen. Walker digs into deep into the backstory of her fantastic time travel series, expands greatly on the… Read the rest of the article: Rysa Walker's 'Now, Then, and Everywhen' kicks off her 'Chronos Origins' series

Lovely Tattoine style Star Wars tech, this LEGO Pod racer memorializes one of Star Wars most scorned movies, The Phantom Menace. …but this is podracing. The kit comes with a… Read the rest of the article: LEGO Anakin's Podracer

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View this post on Instagram The pleasure is mine. Tomorrow, 9pm PST, Right here on InstagramLive. Thank YOU! #almightyopp A post shared by jeffrey's human persona (@almightyopp) on Apr 3,… Read the rest of the article: almighty Opp Instagram Livestream at 9pm PST tonight

Even tho they are only updated once a day (at most) I check, check and re-check 91-divoc and the IHME COVID-19 Projections. The linear scale graphs on 91-divoc have given… Read the rest of the article: These are the two COVID-19 data sites I incessantly check

Fans have pined away for the Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Collin Trevorrow was set to direct. This animated version show just how much better it would have been…

I enjoyed this period of Paul and sort of fondly remember the movie Give My Regards to Broad Street but it was completely unmemorable. Woke up with this stuck in… Read the rest of the article: Paul McCartney's 'No More Lonely Nights' (1984)

Google has a whole set of graphs showing us the decline in folks moving around. Glad to know they're keeping an eye out for us! Google's COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports

It started with the 'Yub Nub Mug' at Oga's Cantina, and now I am collecting Sci-fi themed tiki mugs (I got mine at Disneyland for a whole lot less than… Read the rest of the article: Baby Yoda tiki mug

I have, several times, heard the reasonable-sounding theory that America's at work pooping minimized the need for THAT MUCH retail toilet paper. Purportedly there are tons and tons of business-grade… Read the rest of the article: The retail TP shortage may be real and due to the shift in where we poop

Reddit: Chandra Oppenheim’s story is one of the most innocent but interesting stories to come out of post-punk NYC. After glam moved into punk and punk moved into post-punk/new wave/no… Read the rest of the article: 1980's 12-year-old post-punk sensation Chandra sings "Concentration"

Revenger, a fast-paced space opera by Alastair Reynolds with strong women as protagonists and few surprises certainly took my mind off things for a bit. Worldbuilding galore takes place in… Read the rest of the article: Alastair Reynolds' "Revenger"

The Brass-A-Holics offer this fantastic rendition of "I'll Fly Away" to help comfort those who can not give their loved ones a proper jazz funeral. I have been in love… Read the rest of the article: Jazz funerals in the time of do-not-gather

Haters gotta hate right? SPLC: Michael Hill has no intention of letting a global pandemic cancel plans for the League of the South’s annual conference. The 68-year-old Hill, president of… Read the rest of the article: Despite CDC recommendations to the contrary, hate group intends to hold rally

San Francisco is jamming on the wine deliveries. Unsurprisingly alcohol isn't the greatest thing for your immune system. SFist: You’d be forgiven for blacking out around sundown and not having… Read the rest of the article: San Francisco drinks its way thru the pandemic

'…and the horns kicked in…"

Read the first post in our series on making your own sourdough starter and bread. The third loaf of bread with my new-to-the-pandemic sourdough starter was a pleasure to bake.… Read the rest of the article: Pandemic sourdough: baking this loaf of bread made me so happy

A good friend of mine is restoring a Scout now. He compares it to my Vanagon and I do not understand why. Looks like this one wants to be driven!… Read the rest of the article: A positively beautiful 1979 International Harvester Scout II SE