Zombiepirate

A song about the Granite/Speculator Mine disaster.

I went to a cooking club meetup where we wanted to practice cooking on flame & coals for camping, and I brought this to make. It tasted better than it looks.

As it's a pretty simple dish, I wanted to get a few types of mushrooms to add some flavor variety, and used some oyster, trumpet, lion's mane, and miyatake. Sauteed them till most of the water came off, then added the coined leeks and chopped cabbage. Added a little broth, salt & pepper, and let it cook till the leeks were done.

I mentioned that I wanted to find a recipe that could accommodate vegetarians, and someone replied "this ain't no accommodation, it's good enough to be the main dish!"

High praise from a carnivore!

I've never tried my hand at 3D stuff before, and this looked fun. Carved out of basswood.

Here's the tutorial I used if anyone else wants to get started.

It's a rare example of English being simpler than other languages, so I'm curious if it's hard for a new speaker to keep the nouns straight without the extra clues.

Pope Paul III and His Grandsons is an oil on canvas painting by Titian, housed in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples. It was commissioned by the Farnese family and painted during Titian's visit to Rome between autumn 1545 and June 1546. It depicts the scabrous relationship between Pope Paul III and his grandsons, Ottavio and Alessandro Farnese. Ottavio is shown in the act of kneeling, to his left; Alessandro, wearing a cardinal's dress, stands behind him to his right. The painting explores the effects of ageing and the manoeuvring behind succession; Paul was at the time in his late seventies and ruling in an uncertain political climate as Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor came into ascendancy.

Paul III was the last of the popes appointed by the ruling Medici family of Florence. He was socially ambitious, a careerist and not particularly pious. He kept a concubine, fathered four children out of wedlock and viewed the throne as an opportunity to fill his coffers while he placed his relatives in high positions. A talented and cunning political operator, Paul was precisely the sort of man the Florentines needed to assist them in their defence against French and Spanish threats.

A sackbut is an early form of the trombone used during the Renaissance and Baroque eras. A sackbut has the characteristic telescopic slide of a trombone, used to vary the length of the tube to change pitch, but is distinct from later trombones by its smaller, more cylindrically-proportioned bore, and its less-flared bell. Unlike the earlier slide trumpet from which it evolved, the sackbut possesses a U-shaped slide with two parallel sliding tubes, rather than just one.