Peter and the Farm

...cows, and pigs he tends on his Vermont farm. Peter is also one of the most complicated, sympathetic documentary subjects to come along in some time, a product of the 1960s counterculture whose poetic idealism has since soured. For all his candor, he slips into drunken self-destructive habits, cursing the splendors of a pastoral landscape that he has spent decades nurturing. Imbued with an aching tenderness, Tony Stone’s documentary is both hauntin...

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Epic Homesteading Fiascos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QVhuNho0FI Kudos to Eric of Garden Fork for keeping the cameras rolling after this disaster. I think I would have been too dispirited to hit record. It’s particularly frustrating when months of work end in one catastrophic moment. In terms of personal disasters, skunks tearing through our salad beds comes to mind, as well as ruining three five gallon batches of home brewed beer one after the other. These sorts of...

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How to Apply Window Glazing Putty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qssB_kLJmqQ&t=2s I spent yesterday afternoon applying glazing putty to a window while simultaneously speculating about hosting the world’s first Olympics of window glazing. Who needs gymnastics? At the glazing Olympics, the judges will score the smoothness of the putty line, evenness of the corners, economic use of materials and cleanliness of the glass. One can also easily imagine the constant and exciting play by...

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How to Avoid “Avocado Hand”

...t there’s a song by Swedish singer Jens Lekman about avocado hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIwIAbcLFhI I was slicing up an avocado When you came up behind me With your silent brand-new sneakers Your reflection I did not see It was the hottest day in August And we were heading for the sea For a second my mind started drifting You put your arms around me You put your arms around me You put your arms around Blood spraying on the kitchen sink...

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The Coolest How-To Video Ever?

...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR9_CjQYZj4 Even if you’ll never make your own bespoke cutting board it’s fun to watch Scott Lewis make one while simultaneously crafting one of the best shot how-to videos I’ve ever seen....

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