Gentle Readers...I thought a book about the "apocryphal scriptures" was going to contain the Apocrypha, as found in study Bibles, and a few of the fragments of "apocryphal gospels" ascribed to St. Thomas and Mary Magdalene, right? Wrong. It contains lots of ancient texts that I've never seen or heard of. These books had been translated into English, once, but because they're early Christian literature rather than Sacred Scriptures they hadn't been reprinted for a long time. What they lack in religious authority they make up in historical interest. I can't make myself just skim through them and write a cursory review of the book; I want to read them. So that's where I've been, lost in historical literature.
Animals
Looks like a cool way to recycle truck tires while also giving hens about as much mental and physical exercise as most of them can handle.
Photo found on the Meow. Lens says it appeared first on F******k. However, the photo was produced by plagiarism-bots. Hens do not always intend to hatch every egg they lay. They seem to know that they were designed to lay surplus eggs they can trade to humans for protection. I've seen them stand on the ground and lay eggs right at their humans' feet. So they might put some eggs in form-fitting nest strips like truck tires, if supplied with new clean straw...but when they intend to hatch eggs, they want a nest space with room for baby chicks to toddle about. It would be interesting if someone actually did this and reported back to us on how many eggs were laid in truck tires before the hens claimed nest spaces in the straw on the floor, or outdoors.
Books
This is cool. This just might save somebody's life some day, if greed continues to destroy the modern medical system. Dr. Jethro Kloss wrote a book about what he'd learned in his medical practice, printed in 1939. It made a fat little pocket-sized paperback, reasonably large clear print, tiny margins, about 500 pages. Now somebody has converted it to a PDF with large bold display-type print, easy to read on screen, about 1000 pages. If you don't have the paperback book, or if you'd like to have the information on your laptop while travelling, go and download Back to Eden now.
There is a Back to Eden Cookbook. This is not it. This is the original encyclopedia of home nursing, containing recipes, massage and hydrotherapy "modalities," lots and lots of information about the use of herbs, and information about treatment for every disease that was known in 1939 including rabies. (The survival rate for unvaccinated people with rabies is still extremely low. A handful of people have survived; Kloss reprinted one man's memoir about what surviving rabies felt like, but he made no promises that anyone else was going to survive rabies without the vax.) This is what we'll all be using for "health care" if and when S.H.T.F.
Education
Latest experiments in coddling college freshmen...there's a particularly cogent comment, above mine:
Food
Commercial fruitcakes are, technically, food, which is why I laughed when Messy Mimi shared this historical tidbit. I'd guess that Captain Scott thought it was only almost edible while he was exploring Antarctica, too. "Am I hungry enough to eat this?" he asked himself. "Not yet," he answered himself. In between eating raw leg of sled dog and dying of starvation and exposure, he thought about the fruitcake back in the hut he'd used. "Am I hungry enough to go back and eat thaaaat?" he asked himself, thought he might be, remembered how many more steps that would entail, then lay down in the snow...
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Scientists exploring Captain Scott's hut in Antarctica discover a 100-year-old Huntley & Palmers fruitcake that is perfectly preserved and deemed to look and smell almost edible, 2018
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Found at https://messymimismeanderings.blogspot.com/2026/08/even-awake-hes-asleep-awww-monday.html . This site is always good for a list of "on this day in..." fun facts.
History
My grandfather's war. (He wasn't shot or blown up, but he was gassed. He coughed for fifty years.) What these men went through, they endured--supposedly--to end wars. The least we could do, in their memory, is stay out of wars now.
This is music, but it's memorial music, not dance music, so it goes here:
Music
Traffic.
Kiss of Life. Google says about half the words are Korean, and all they mean is the usual pop-song froth. Anyway I asked for more links to songs young people liked, this is one, and I find it interesting, because of Francesca Hong, a politician who thinks tipping is somehow "racist." As in, Hong is a frump who wouldn't have got tips as a young waitress or car washer or delivery driver, so she assumed that that's because she's Korean. Well, this is a group of four Koreans who would have got tips, singing about another young woman, presumably also Korean, who would have been wallowing in tips. Looking like Kim Hye-soo helps (it might have been what made the girl they're singing about stand out in a crowd that included them), but really, at Francesca Hong's level, the key to getting at least some tips would have been looking perky. Hong looks like a heavily medicated mental patient, which she admits that, even as a student, she was. Hong is the sort of person who would invest in a restaurant that specializes in ramen noodles and complain that Thanksgiving is a source of tremendous pain for people who are trying to earn a living by selling what poor students routinely cook in the handbasins in their dorm rooms, on a day when people get together with their relatives and roast turkeys. I don't know who's running against Hong but she has got to be making that candidate look good. Anyway, enjoy the song.
Neil Young.
Stay-C. This one contains some Japanese.
Message To Bears.
Henry Lau.
Chequerboard.
Le Sserafim.
Camel.
I.V.E. (Contains some Japanese. No, I don't know where this correspondent is posting from; I have seen lots of American college students looking and asking for "anime" books.)
"Mid Mod Music." This is a full hour of bouncy jazz, annoying on telephones when people are "put on hold," but very good for extended housework breaks. (Remember that study of hotel maids, back in the 2000s? People who plodded through the physical work of housekeeping became or remained overweight. When the same individuals started thinking of the repetitive, rhythmic, large muscle movement they did at work as exercise or dancing, they slimmed down!)
Kepler.
Aqua Velvets.
Sergio Mendes.
Rolling Stones. The person who shared this link maintained that Mick Jagger was "the sexiest man alive" in this video. Say what? I see a gangly kid with messy hair. Whatever.
Chris Izaak.
Edward Elgar. (C.S. Lewis groused that this sounds too much like a hymn to be a patriotic song. What do you think?)
The Pistol Annies.
Johnny Cash.
I think of that as Hank Snow's song, though a lot of people have recorded it and Johnny Cash made it sound better. It's about North American place names right? And er um a lot of the place names that are most fun, or challenging, to rattle off in speeded-up versions of the song happen to be in Canada, where Hank Snow came from. But Borepatch dug up, some time ago, the information that earlier versions of the song were written in Australia. There's an Australian version,
and also a British version:
Example.
Toby Keith.
The Dovells.
America, the band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93CyKM3PF_Y (from a live concert, almost an hour)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yY3E6MiKFc (shorter, studio sound)
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