# favourite things (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover favourite things. Page: Feed: --- ## [You Can Still Call Me Al](https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/you-can-still-call-me-al) _2026-08-12 · Dr Christopher Exley · Dr’s Newsletter_ Or what Trump's Executive Order could truly, madly, deeply achieve ## [The Monthly Dispatch: Blueberry Juice, Summer Whites & Hilary Duff](https://werenaissancewomen.substack.com/p/the-monthly-dispatch-blueberry-juice) _2026-08-02 · We, Renaissance Women_ What I loved in the month of July. ## [Wouldn't It Be Good (Album Version)](https://www.spudooli.com/photoblog/476) _2026-07-24 · spudooli.com_ When I was about 15, maybe 16, my mother and her partner owned a Fish and Chip shop . That room there on the right of the building was my bedroom. Over the back fence there was a block of flats. In the end flat, lived a woman, possibly in her mid or late 20s. I saw her a few times over the fence. One summer she played the album Human Racing many, many times. Tairawhiti Gisborne summers were hot,… ## [Something For The Weekend II](https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/something-for-the-weekend-ii-78e) _2026-07-24 · Dr Christopher Exley · Dr’s Newsletter_ Human exposure to aluminium and the Human Shutdown ## [Noteworthy: I Have Myths On The Brain](https://werenaissancewomen.substack.com/p/noteworthy-i-have-myths-on-the-brain) _2026-07-22 · We, Renaissance Women_ Plus some thoughts about the Obama Presidential Center Museum. ## [my favourite things](https://strawberrymilk.bearblog.dev/my-favourite-things/) _2026-07-16 · strawberrymilk · strawberry milk_ hello! A bit ago, a friend asked me to list my "five favourite things, ever". I responded with a short list that I'd compiled over sometime. I was then reminded of a book that I had read many years ago, 14,000 Things to Be Happy About by Barbara Ann Kipfer. It lists, as the title advertises, 14,000 small and menials things that "makes life worth living". The sister site things to be happy about… ## [The Hippy Hippy Shake](https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/the-hippy-hippy-shake) _2026-07-16 · Dr Christopher Exley · Dr’s Newsletter_ A muse and an apology ## [Noteworthy: How I Plan My Monthly Reading](https://werenaissancewomen.substack.com/p/noteworthy-how-i-plan-my-monthly) _2026-07-08 · Jennifer Grace · We, Renaissance Women_ Plus a little history and behind-the-scenes of the Lyric Opera in Chicago. ## [an endless song](https://strawberrymilk.bearblog.dev/an-endless-song/) _2026-07-08 · strawberrymilk · strawberry milk_ hello! I was thinking over the graduation quote that I sent over to the yearbook. It was: "Let's sing an endless song. For you, for me, and for them" An translated excerpt from The Blue Hearts' song 終わらない歌 (Owaranai Uta) , or An Endless Song . In specific, I referenced it in context of the ending of the 2005 film Linda Linda Linda (spoilers ahead). In it, the band performs the eponymous song リンダ… ## [moving forward](https://strawberrymilk.bearblog.dev/moving-forward/) _2026-06-25 · strawberrymilk · strawberry milk_ ”Do you see how you’ve grown? Don’t be sorry, then.” hello, Today was my graduation. I guess I hadn’t really thought in depth about what it really meant until it was over. It wasn’t bittersweet, necessarily, but hold a feeling of finality that I haven’t experienced in a while. Part of it was nice, being able to make peace with the past years. But that was quickly overcome with a homologous feeling… ## [Meet Claude, an AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/YN3kGkQYyuLm) _2026-06-25 · **Sponsored**_ Chat with Claude at claude.ai — a conversational AI assistant. ## [Noteworthy: Tips for Your Summer Personal Curriculum](https://werenaissancewomen.substack.com/p/noteworthy-tips-for-your-summer-personal) _2026-06-24 · We, Renaissance Women_ Plus, making a case for brooches & thinking like an anthropologist. ## [Send in the (Pharma) Clowns](https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/send-in-the-pharma-clowns) _2026-06-19 · Dr Christopher Exley · Dr’s Newsletter_ Don't bother, they're here ## [Noteworthy: Why You Should Spend More Time With One Artwork](https://werenaissancewomen.substack.com/p/noteworthy-why-you-should-spend-more) _2026-06-17 · We, Renaissance Women_ Plus the 12 new books I added to my library. ## [Noteworthy: My Textile History Class, Scandinavian Cooking & Women's Prize for Fiction](https://werenaissancewomen.substack.com/p/noteworthy-my-textile-history-class) _2026-06-10 · We, Renaissance Women_ Plus, the two new items I added to my wardrobe this weekend. ## [Give me back the rear mono button of the late 80s](https://www.spudooli.com/photoblog/475) _2026-06-06 · spudooli.com_ In the very late 80s and early 90s I did a lot of travelling around Aotearoa New Zealand in Avis rental cars, mostly Toyota Corollas and Coronas. They all came equipped with Alpine car audio that had a really good button for rear mono. So you had stereo up front and punchy weight from the rear parcel shelf speakers. In all likelihood, given capitalism was alive then too, there was probably not… ## [Belief and Darwin](https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/belief-and-darwin) _2026-06-03 · Dr Christopher Exley · Dr’s Newsletter_ Two totally compatible concepts (in my house) ## [How To Have A Travel-Filled Summer Without Getting On A Plane](https://werenaissancewomen.substack.com/p/how-to-have-a-travel-filled-summer) _2026-05-31 · Jennifer Grace · We, Renaissance Women_ 50 ideas for experiencing the world close to home ## [It's All About The Science, Isn't It?](https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/its-all-about-the-science-isnt-it) _2026-05-26 · Dr Christopher Exley · Dr’s Newsletter_ When dollars blur the limits of science ## [20 Tips For Becoming A More Thoughtful Reader](https://werenaissancewomen.substack.com/p/20-tips-for-becoming-a-more-thoughtful) _2026-05-24 · Jennifer Grace · We, Renaissance Women_ Both you and the book have a role to play ## [77 Months and 2 days to go](https://www.spudooli.com/photoblog/474) _2026-05-15 · spudooli.com_ Some time back I was having a particularly tough time at work, which is a relative measure. Because I can report a bunch of days much, much harder on the mental wellness scale in the past, and of course there is always someone else worse off than me. But on that day I idly asked the AI machines of the time, "How many months left until 17th November 2032?", and the machine came back with the lovely… ## [Make any domain metal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/l0ow08NMiV3I) _2026-05-15 · **Sponsored**_ Turn any domain into a blacked-out metal landing page with an email waitlist ## [Pharma's Last Stand](https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/pharmas-last-stand) _2026-05-13 · Dr Christopher Exley · Dr’s Newsletter_ Houston we have a problem! ## [Noteworthy: My Cemetery Journeys](https://werenaissancewomen.substack.com/p/noteworthy-my-cemetery-journeys) _2026-05-13 · Jennifer Grace · We, Renaissance Women_ Plus lots of AAPI month book recommendations. ## [Noteworthy: Buenos Aires' Museums & Opera](https://werenaissancewomen.substack.com/p/noteworthy-buenos-aires-museums-and) _2026-05-06 · Jennifer Grace · We, Renaissance Women_ Plus upcoming art exhibits around the world to know about. ## [Flog a Dead Horse Again](https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/flog-a-dead-horse-again) _2026-05-05 · Dr Christopher Exley · Dr’s Newsletter_ Or how peer review continues to fail the scientific method, science and scientists ## [love for long songs](https://strawberrymilk.bearblog.dev/love-for-long-songs/) _2026-05-04 · strawberrymilk · strawberry milk_ I've much to say about listening to entire albums and the soundscapes they're able to create, but I'd like to direct some appreciation towards singular, long-length tracks. To categorize a song as "long" or not is gonna be left ambiguous, and you may disagree if a song here belongs. However, I think my choices were predicated not on which one was longer, but how it used its length throughout.… ## [Nil By Mouth](https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/nil-by-mouth) _2026-04-27 · Dr Christopher Exley · Dr’s Newsletter_ Nil, nil, nil no matter how you look at it ## [My Favourite Things VIII](https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/my-favourite-things-viii) _2026-04-13 · Dr Christopher Exley · Dr’s Newsletter_ Aluminium tales from the pyramids of Uxmal ## [the art of trailers](https://strawberrymilk.bearblog.dev/the-art-of-trailers/) _2025-11-19 · strawberrymilk · strawberry milk_ A weird pastime that I've indulged in for some time is watching and, almost excessively, rewatching trailers of a film or game. It's hard to describe a specific reason for it and seems like an insignificant aspect of a piece of media. And truthfully, most trailers do not more than be a glorified advertisement, cherry picking the fanciest parts to lure you into an otherwise unremarkable product.… ## [the fear of eternity](https://strawberrymilk.bearblog.dev/the-fear-of-eternity/) _2025-09-08 · strawberrymilk · strawberry milk_ or formally, apeirophobia spoiler warning for: It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) Mother 3 (2006) The Good Place (2016-2020) the last scene in don hertzfeldt's It's Such a Beautiful Day has stuck with me ever since i've watched it. seeing it on the big screen during its reshowing last year (at the revue !!) also got me thinking about it more and more. however, i've still found it increasingly… ## [preamble](https://strawberrymilk.bearblog.dev/preamble/) _2025-07-20 · strawberrymilk · strawberry milk_ like a manifesto, mission statement, or however way to put what this blog means to me and what i plan to write about. here will mostly just be a place to aggregate my messy thoughts for things that i like, whether it be an album, movie, or which new note taking app i've taken up to at a given moment, really anything that i feel like truly deserves it. there's something incredible about art and how… ## [Home of the Agentic Pull Request (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/qXpmXFA0H2hP) _2025-07-20 · **Sponsored**_ CLI-first, TUI-ready toolkits and a moshscript installer — join the waitlist ## [How fast everything goes from fine to not fine?](https://www.spudooli.com/photoblog/473) _2025-06-20 · spudooli.com_ It has been a long time for us since we've had to overcome something difficult or sudden or properly bad. And for that I am thankful. Although that very statement seems weird, as if there is something that allows good and bad to happen to people. There just isn't. Three weeks ago, I was partially run over by a car after what seems like the stupidest chain of events that could be imagined. Gabriel… ## [easier to love you](https://strawberrymilk.bearblog.dev/easier-to-love-you/) _2025-04-17 · strawberrymilk · strawberry milk_ Music Video - Spotify - Soundcloud Coming from the energy-dense front of Porter Robinson's SMILE! :D leads to a tonal whiplash from the seventh track Easier to Love You . As the album title and aesthetic, so to speak, initially suggests a more energetic and less sentimental, which couldn't be further from the truth. It's a slow, bittersweet lyrics are a great reminder of self-love and acceptance.… ## [I understand my grandfather's grin now](https://www.spudooli.com/photoblog/472) _2025-02-14 · spudooli.com_ In 1981, I escaped from my father’s house (of abject misery ) to go live with my mother in Tairawhiti, Gisborne. I joined Gisborne Boys' High School in Form 3 at the start of the third term that year. My maternal grandparents lived about 200 meters from the high school. For the first year or two, I'd ride my bike from Kaiti, where we lived, to my grandparents’, store the bike in the woodshed. I'd… ## [Ms Dunlop was not happy with my SAS skills...](https://www.spudooli.com/photoblog/471) _2025-01-12 · spudooli.com_ Way back in the 1980s, my third real job, I worked at a government department in Information Services doing what could only be classed as menial labour. Once a day I'd take a trolley down to the 2nd floor at Cumberland House (now student accommodation for Vic Uni) on Willis Street in Wellington, pick up a dozen, or more, boxes of printed line flow paper from the page printers down there and… ## [A short list of my favourite things, but with no favourite river, yet](https://www.spudooli.com/photoblog/470) _2024-12-20 · spudooli.com_ A post from one of my favourite acquaintances made me realize I didn't have a favourite river, which meant I was missing something, which got me thinking I should actually catalogue some of my favourite things. So here they are, in no particular order: Favourite candy-covered chocolate: M&Ms. There is a very bad smell when you first open the packet that smells of everything that is bad about… ## [I am a shareholder in UnitedHealth](https://www.spudooli.com/photoblog/469) _2024-12-06 · spudooli.com_ Yesterday, someone assassinated the CEO of UnitedHealth in the USA. So far, I haven’t seen anyone particularly unhappy about this turn of events. Most commentary suggests they are not a good company. However, someone is dead, and that person had family, a partner, kids, parents, and friends, possibly, though I haven’t looked into it further. At the same time, the shooter probably has his reasons.… ## [I am Elvis and Elvis is me](https://www.spudooli.com/photoblog/468) _2024-11-08 · spudooli.com_ I was almost 10 when Elvis died. He wasn’t really a part of our lives but I remember, vaguely, the day. He wasn't an artist that we listened to, rather artists like Roger Whittaker, Glen Campbell, and Neil Diamond that my father listened to at the time. My dad had an 8-track system in one of his cars, and he only had three cassettes that I can remember (Roger Whittaker, Glen Campbell, and Neil…