# dog day (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover dog day. Page: Feed: --- ## [A Getaway to Virginia’s Historic Triangle](https://fewerandbetter.substack.com/p/a-getaway-to-virginias-historic-triangle) _2026-08-21 · Sarah | Fewer & Better · Fewer & Better: The Staple_ 48 hours in Yorktown and Williamsburg ## [GTB's Definitive Review of the 2026-27 EPL Kits](http://gheorghe77.blogspot.com/2026/08/gtbs-definitive-review-of-2026-27-epl.html) _2026-08-20 · noreply@blogger.com (rob) · Gheorghe: The Blog_ At the time of posting, we're fewer than 36 hours away from the start of a new Premier League season. One of the league's traditional preseason activities (in addition to exhibition games/money grabs in places far from the UK and Chelsea overpaying for middling talent) is the release of new kit designs. Which, come to think of it, is also a money grab. ESPN has helpfully catalogued and ranked all… ## [BRB!](https://fewerandbetter.substack.com/p/brb) _2026-08-19 · Sarah | Fewer & Better · Fewer & Better: The Staple_ Taking a few very needed days off ## [Dog Days](http://gheorghe77.blogspot.com/2026/08/dog-days.html) _2026-08-18 · noreply@blogger.com (rob) · Gheorghe: The Blog_ ## [Four Recent Outfits](https://fewerandbetter.substack.com/p/four-recent-outfits-602) _2026-08-17 · Sarah | Fewer & Better · Fewer & Better: The Staple_ A bonus outfit! ## [Belated Glen Hansard Appreciation Post](http://gheorghe77.blogspot.com/2026/08/belated-glen-hansard-appreciation-post.html) _2026-08-15 · noreply@blogger.com (rob) · Gheorghe: The Blog_ Not exactly dipshittery, but a return to a normality. Glen Hansard, who passed away in a motorcycle accident on July 29, was your favorite musician's favorite musician. Hansard was beloved by the greats, the goods, the unknowns, and the up and comers because he just absolutely loved music with all his being. Here are just a few of the things he did, and a few of the ways the community celebrated… ## [What I Miss / What I Don't](https://fewerandbetter.substack.com/p/what-i-miss-what-i-dont) _2026-08-14 · Sarah | Fewer & Better · Fewer & Better: The Staple_ Notes on a move from a place I've always called home ## [Indulgence](http://gheorghe77.blogspot.com/2026/08/indulgence.html) _2026-08-14 · noreply@blogger.com (rob) · Gheorghe: The Blog_ Person Is Killed in ICE-Involved Shooting in Maine Person Passive Forever now Agents Active Shot him dead Our polite society Chooses to forget The words that Describe the truth So a person is killed Impunity granted A little girl grows up Fatherless. Our editors write The next headline. ## [What I Did On My Summer Vacation](http://gheorghe77.blogspot.com/2026/08/what-i-did-on-my-summer-vacation.html) _2026-08-12 · noreply@blogger.com (rob) · Gheorghe: The Blog_ Financial precarity aside, being one of the founders of a startup has its perks. in my recent case, it means i can fuck off for a few weeks to various locales and not worry about job security. It doesn't hurt that our little company is entirely virtual and I can check in from places far and wide. What follows is a journey in (mostly) pictures from a river in Maine to the mountains of Colorado to… ## [10 Things I Especially Love in August](https://fewerandbetter.substack.com/p/10-things-i-especially-love-in-august) _2026-08-12 · Sarah | Fewer & Better · Fewer & Better: The Staple_ The dog days are still very much here ## [Daily plans, scheduled by AI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Yd2DioPnoodT) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ AI-made daily plans that schedule tasks and protect focus time. ## [Gheorghasbord: The Slimmining](http://gheorghe77.blogspot.com/2026/08/gheorghasbord-slimmining.html) _2026-08-10 · noreply@blogger.com (rob) · Gheorghe: The Blog_ Been an active three weeks or so for your boy, and I'm working on the comprehensive travelogue. I'm not saying it's on a Gheorghemas Day 12 schedule, but I'm not not saying that. I jumped on the scale this morning after a strict three-day regimen of PBR, Red Stripe, and gobs of tuna and was nonplussed, to say the very least. Gonna be doubling down on fiber and vegetables the next few days ahead of… ## [The Blueprint](https://fewerandbetter.substack.com/p/the-blueprint) _2026-08-10 · Sarah | Fewer & Better · Fewer & Better: The Staple_ Simple style ideas for pre-fall ## [Currently... August 7th](https://fewerandbetter.substack.com/p/currently-august-7th) _2026-08-07 · Sarah | Fewer & Better · Fewer & Better: The Staple_ What I'm reading, wearing, shopping ## [Three Recent Outfits](https://fewerandbetter.substack.com/p/three-recent-outfits-a3c) _2026-08-05 · Sarah | Fewer & Better · Fewer & Better: The Staple_ A week of espadrilles! ## [The 'Failure' of Progress in Women's Athletics](http://gheorghe77.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-failure-of-progress-in-womens.html) _2026-08-05 · noreply@blogger.com (OBX dave) · Gheorghe: The Blog_ The busy beavers at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank whose vision of “a more perfect union” differs from that of a sizeable portion of the citizenry, recently demonstrated that its noxious ideas aren’t limited to government overhaul. The Foundation released a paper on transforming women’s sports to become, shall we say, more feminine and less male, all with a heavy dose of… ## [zShazams Are Back!](http://gheorghe77.blogspot.com/2026/08/zshazams-are-back.html) _2026-08-04 · noreply@blogger.com (zman) · Gheorghe: The Blog_ I've been slacking off with my zshazams effort. Here are a few gems I discovered since my last post and I dedicate them to some Gheorghies. "Theme for Moon Children" by Duane Eddy This is a twangy western guitar song with a grand soaring string section, very cinematic. It's very much of a time and place that heavily involve vinyl. Accordingly, this one's for Mr. KQ (he probably has it on a 78).… ## [Preparing My Pre-Fall Wardrobe](https://fewerandbetter.substack.com/p/preparing-my-pre-fall-wardrobe) _2026-08-03 · Sarah | Fewer & Better · Fewer & Better: The Staple_ Taking Care of Your Clothes So They Take Care of You ## [Maybe AI won't take our jobs, and if it does I have a plan thanks to Eddie Murphy.](http://gheorghe77.blogspot.com/2026/08/maybe-ai-wont-take-our-jobs-and-if-it.html) _2026-08-03 · noreply@blogger.com (zman) · Gheorghe: The Blog_ Many worry that AI will completely change society, including by automating certain work and thereby taking jobs from humans. I do not share that concern in light of recent discoveries, and if happens I have a fallback plan. Once again, Eddie Murphy is involved. My favorite Eddie Murphy movie might be Coming to America . The plot is simple--Eddie Murphy plays the prince of the fictional African… ## [July Top 10](https://fewerandbetter.substack.com/p/july-top-10-e86) _2026-07-31 · Sarah | Fewer & Better · Fewer & Better: The Staple_ Down to the wire... ## [The Official Beer of the Resistance](http://gheorghe77.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-official-beer-of-resistance.html) _2026-07-31 · noreply@blogger.com (rob) · Gheorghe: The Blog_ It should be noted up front that I am not an attorney. But I've read some things, so I feel qualified to opine. Also relevant to this post: like noted jurist Brett Kavanaugh, I like beer. I'm probably over-qualified to offer my take on the suds. Today, a story that combines First Amendment issues with serving beer for your consideration. Minocqua Brewing is a Wisconsin-based brewing company with… ## [Marketplace for AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7SzotzLwVxjc) _2026-07-31 · **Sponsored**_ Find professionals who use ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude to deliver work faster. ## [ANTIGONE AT THE END OF THE WORLD](https://lateralthinkingtechnology.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/antigone-at-the-end-of-the-world/) _2026-07-30 · yoshimired · lateral thinking_ I liked to stand upon the deck before a battle. That wasn’t technically disallowed, but often captains tended to disapprove of it; HMS Antigone usually at full speed hit around sixty knots, and she was a new, powerful, untrustworthy sort of strider, thirty metres high and without much space on her foredeck, and it wouldn’t... Continue Reading ## [Five Outfits from Summers Past](https://fewerandbetter.substack.com/p/five-outfits-from-summers-past) _2026-07-29 · Sarah | Fewer & Better · Fewer & Better: The Staple_ that I need to rewear this year ## [TEETH ON BARE SKIN 3: HER FANGS](https://lateralthinkingtechnology.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/teeth-on-bare-skin-3-her-fangs/) _2026-01-15 · yoshimired · lateral thinking_ PART TWO: DOG DAYS Celine was aware of the outrage she should have felt at Mattie’s remark. She did not. She was aware of where Mattie’s eyes were, straight down her oversized blouse. That same warmth from the shower, which really had never left, felt to be rushing across her as if she were made... Continue Reading ## [TEETH ON BARE SKIN 2: DOG DAYS](https://lateralthinkingtechnology.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/teeth-on-bare-skin-2-dog-days/) _2026-01-14 · yoshimired · lateral thinking_ PART ONE: WOLF AND CUB They crept towards the cave against a hillside soaked in dusk. Blucher was on point, a huge shape compressed against the incline, wriggling to the ridge above them and peering over, his bulk and the bleak rock of the slope both painted red by the sunset far above. Dark shadows... Continue Reading ## [TEETH ON BARE SKIN 1: WOLF AND CUB](https://lateralthinkingtechnology.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/teeth-on-bare-skin-1-wolf-and-cub/) _2026-01-13 · yoshimired · lateral thinking_ Mattie racked the L129A1 and rested its stock on her shoulder and its bipod on the edge of the rooftop and leant forward and stared down the ACOG at the old eastern bloc cinema there on the west side of the square, sighing to herself, and she hit the PTT button in her earpiece and... Continue Reading ## [ANGLOFASCISM](https://lateralthinkingtechnology.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/anglofascism/) _2025-10-27 · yoshimired · lateral thinking_ In 1933, Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dolfuss, a short, generally unpopular man, founded a political party. Out of right-wing militias, traditional conservative parties, and landed estates, he put together an organisation called the Fatherland Front, which ruled the tiny, dysfunctional Republic of Austria (rechristened the Federal State of Austria) for five years until 1938, when Dolfuss’s...… ## [Short Fiction – Metanoia](https://lateralthinkingtechnology.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/short-fiction-metanoia/) _2025-09-23 · yoshimired · lateral thinking_ Upon the mountainside above the yawning abyss of the valley wherein the great necropolis of the Headless Saint lay as a shadow of brutal stone and sculpture with columns and pillars and mausoleums stretching on for countless miles beneath the fog, its highest reaches, the towers and spires of the battlements, piercing the turgid grey... Continue Reading ## [DEATH TO THE KOWLOON WALLED CITY! – Or, Twilight of the Warriors, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX, and the Art of Yearning](https://lateralthinkingtechnology.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/death-to-the-kowloon-walled-city-or-twilight-of-the-warriors-mobile-suit-gundam-gquuuuuux-and-the-art-of-yearning/) _2025-07-01 · yoshimired · lateral thinking_ Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In is a film that exists in two places at once. On the face of it a classic Hong Kong story of gangsters, urban decay, crime, corruption and explosive violence, the movie follows Chan Lok-kwan, a mainland refugee in Hong Kong who flees from the law in the unregulated chaos... Continue Reading ## [MANCHUKUO 1987 – MY NOVEL IS OUT!!!](https://lateralthinkingtechnology.wordpress.com/2025/06/05/manchukuo-1987-my-novel-is-out/) _2025-06-05 · yoshimired · lateral thinking_ It s finally here! Last week I put up my alternate-history detective novel, MANCHUKUO 1987, and someone out there reminded me that doing a blog post on it wouldn t be a bad idea. So if you re somehow on here but not on my Twitter, here s a short introduction (links below) The year is 1987. It... Continue Reading ## [THE LOVELY MACHINES OF CHUNG NAM](https://lateralthinkingtechnology.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/the-lovely-machines-of-chung-nam/) _2025-04-21 · yoshimired · lateral thinking_ The Queen’s Truth: It is a proud day for citizens of the British Empire, as we celebrate sixty years of the battle against Nazi tyranny, and a happy one too, especially here, in Hong Kong, where Chung Nam Cybernetics has announced a new and improved model of non-combat Kwei-Lei, the Ching-Ting, which will come in... 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