After his wife and two of his children were killed in Gaza, Al Jazeera journalist Wael al-Dahdouh became famous around the world for his decision to keep reporting. But this was just the start of his heartbreaking journey

A long-read for this week: The Tragedy of Palestinian Journalist Wael al-Dahdouh by Nasrine Malik for The Guardian.

Christopher Soukop's series, A Dimly Lit World, is absolutely sublime. Plenty more on Soukop's site. Christopher also has a Flikr Photostream.

This is from a few years ago but for some reason I didn't link it back then. So: Isaac Cordal's Urban Inertia series from Montreal.

Some stunning work in Saroyan Humphrey's Nightlight series of photographs. Many more under the link.

Hannah Levesque makes very detailed custom paper architectural models.

Many more photos on Levesque's site, including close-ups and interior details. Wonderful stuff. There, you can order a custom job, or even purchase a DIY kit.

Apparently, I'm "more resilient to misinformation than 89% of the US population!"

Or so says The University of Cambridge's Misinformation Susceptibility Test. How about you? I did the 20-question test and it took me just a couple minutes.

A while back, I posted Towers of Silence, which features vultures, and today this video popped up on my feed. Lovely little story with some close-up vulture footage giving a perspective I'd never seen before. Short, just a couple minutes long, but covers vulture romance, arthritis, stem cell surgery, and more.

Some of you know I have a canine roommate named Shakedown. That's her, above. I get complimented on her name pretty much every time I tell it to someone. It's always nice to hear, though I'm sure she's sick of me getting the credit. She's always claimed to have whispered it in my ear while I was sleeping.

I love naming things. Not just dogs. And though I'm biased, I think I have a knack for it. That said, I do know two better namers: Bob Mortimer and David Simon. Some of Mortimer's inventions include Top-heavy Ken, Slow Colin, Barbara Lighthouse, Mary Candles, and Mickey the Drink. Some of Simon's are Snot-boogie, Cheese, Bunk, Carver, and Stringer Bell.

Below is my list of quality dog names. (I also have one of horrible dog names, though I won't share it in case your dog's name is on it.)

Lincoln's List of Great Dog Names

Countdown
Bardo
Fair Play
Flowers
Finch
Flossy
Gillan (GILL anne)
Grenier (GRAIN-yr)
Ogden
Brightly
Go
Compy
Kapow!*
Pantone
Birch
Mighty* (small dogs only, please)
Ida (I-da, not E-da)
Evans
Lautrec (La-TREK)
Goffin
Mox
Catch
Snake Oil
Mon Gateau (aka Monga)
Fisty
Grapes*
Cohen
Tez
Lap-lap
Truce
Shimmy
Bricko / Bricka
Goulash
Softy
Congo
Poplar
Eleh (L.A.)
Campy
Mist
Fixer
Alef

Here's what I'm proposing: have a dog you need named? Choose one of the names above and, if you can afford it, every year of your dog's life, donate ten bucks of your local currency to a dog shelter. Preferably a no-kill shelter.

Don't know any shelters? I'll suggest Galgo del Sol in Spain. They do great work and focus mostly on Galgos and Podencos (the Spanish and Portuguese equivalent to the American Greyhound). They're also pretty great at naming dogs.

Am I kidding with this? Nope.

I sorta stole this idea from Bob Mortimer, who once proposed it with cat names and the annual donations went to him. Bob's a comedian. I'm not. I just like naming things and helping dogs.

*Not a dog name of my invention, so you should only donate $5 annually for these ones, as someone else did the heavy lifting. I met Grapes in Toronto, Mighty in West Hollywood, and Kapow! is an agility champ.

Trailer for The World According to Allee Willis, "the most interesting woman you've never heard of," according to the Washington Post. Looks great!

In addition to being a prolific and grammy-winning songwriter, Willis ran the Museum of Kitsch, which is how I first heard of her in 2010 (though I'd been of a fan of her music without knowing she'd written it). Willis died in 2019, but her Youtube channel lives on.

Digression Alert

Watching this trailer, I was reminded of Montez, a milliner I met once in LA in summer, 2016. She owned and operated The Milliner's Guild at Crossroads of the World.

After walking into her shop, which was closed at the time, I immediately felt a connection to her and we began a talk that lasted a few hours where she told me about growing up in Venice and hanging out with Hendrix or Jim Morrison or both. The specifics are vague as it was my first trip after a stroke a few months prior. She'd made hats for Madonna and plenty of other celebrities from the 80s going forward. We stayed in touch digitally for a few years and the last I heard, she'd moved to New Mexico with her husband. I just sent her a message through a probably now-dead channel, but hopefully I'll hear back.

I wonder if she knew Willis. Montez, are you out there?

"Own and control the next Bandcamp."

That's the pitch from Subvert.FM, a new Music Co-op: "Bandcamp's corporate acquisitions threaten independent music. It's time for a new model - one we collectively own and control."

Free for musicians and labels. $100 listeners. They've got a blog with more information.