$16.49 in Brooklyn yesterday

Quick shout out to oceanofpdf

Sounds like they’re not offering a warranty for new purchases and will only be honoring the warranty for purchases before the cut off date for one year.

Just in case you didn’t know, AeroGarden is closing down on New Years.

The promised consort!

Entirely concur

You bet he knows how to use them!

Praise the sun

Recently completed HFM Prescott’s The Man on a Donkey, a wonderful piece of historic fiction about the main actors (and a few fictional ones) of the 1536 Pilgrimage of Grace—a rebellion against the religious changes of Henry VIII. Despite being a scholar of 16th century England I’m not at all interested in historical fiction, but this was quite a beautiful work set as a chronicle and tracing half a dozen characters from their youth until the final suppression of the Pilgrimage in summer 1537. Prescott does get straight to business so I can imagine it would be a bit difficult to place oneself without preexisting knowledge of late medieval/early modern England, but that thrown-in-the-deep-end attitude worked for me.

Edit: word is that Hilary Mantel was deeply influenced by Prescott, as was the playwright of A Man for All Seasons.

I’m pretty sure if I brought him to the NYSE they’d have to suspend trading.