Saturday Tweets: Thanksgiving Weekend Edition

...Kleiman (@evankleiman) November 21, 2018 Guys, I have an idea. We should start calling vehicular cyclists alt-bicyclists — Angie Schmitt (@schmangee) November 21, 2018 Here's raw footage of the Barney balloon getting destroyed in the 1997 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade… pic.twitter.com/zTBZjoYXOj — Tanooki Joe (@TanookiKuribo) November 22, 2018 Very good agroecology thread here! https://t.co/j1jGfbPE8o — Fruit Cornucopia (@ValenzuelaJohn)...

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126 The Wild Yards Project with David Newsom

...est Gloucester“ Wild Yards Map Wild Yards Project newsletter (at bottom of page) Native plants for realtors The Gottlieb Native Garden: A California Love Story LA Natural History Museum Garden @plasticarmy on Instagram If you’d like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. Closing theme music by Dr. Fran...

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An Arts and Crafts Masterpiece in San Francisco

...a spare hour on a trip to San Francisco to visit relatives I remembered an Arts and Crafts era landmark I had only known through books, the Swedenborgian Church of San Francisco on Lyon Street in the Pacific Heights neighborhood. Thankfully, the church is open for visitors during business hours and we popped in to take a look. The church was designed and built by team of architects and designers that included Bernard Maybeck, A. C. Schweinfurth, A...

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Random Acts of Beauty

...h introduced me to the work of architect William Burges. A recent Guardian article featured a tour of Burges’ Tower House in London that just happens to be owned by Led Zeppelin founder Jimmy Page. The ceiling of Burges’ Cardiff Castle, above, shows Burges’ extreme commitment to ornament and detail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRDD2hfAxAk Lastly, when it comes to screen time, I’ve been thinking about re-watching the films of Andrei Tarkovsky,...

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