News From Nowhere

August 11, 2021

...in car-centric cities but capitalist cities. Cars are just one more way to build capital. They are, after all, packaged debt that just happens to have an inefficient mode of transit attached to it. We’re all forced into cars because that’s the best way to wring profit out of the transportation sector. For this reason we should never shame people for driving a car because we live in a system that forces us to. Our airport hotel even had an upscale...

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On the Problem of Food Storage and Hoarding

Mr. Homegrown

October 29, 2018

Domesticus, Tidying up

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...d a few built-in cabinets. If there’s another thing I’ve learned it’s that building additional storage always leads us down the path of over-consumption. If the Food Network ever makes a foodie hoarder reality show, we could have been on an episode thanks to the shelves we added to the utility room. Those shelves quickly filled with aspirational but never used ingredients such as tapioca flour as well as mediocre food preservation projects that I...

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Weekend Linkages: Pyramids, Strange Houses and F-ing Gourds

Mr. Homegrown

September 5, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...Orange free peaches, painted by Elsie E. Lower, 1910. Via @pomological. A stepped pyramid in the desert Where did SARS-CoV-2 come from? People are still taking that horse medication That time someone tried to set up a Vietnam war theme park (a podcast) Strangest Zillow listing ever The Diapers.com Guy Wants to Build a Utopian Megalopolis F-ing gourd season Can We Live Without Twitter?...

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Weekend Linkages: How To!

Mr. Homegrown

October 10, 2021

Saturday Linkages

...Make a sundial rock for the garden Watch Eric of Garden Fork build pizza oven 2.0 A song about why recipe blog preambles are so long Make a bat detector A video about Canada’s most infamous plant: giant hogweed ‘Overpopulation’ alarmism marginalizes those most vulnerable to climate change...

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I Made a Little Library

Mr. Homegrown

October 28, 2021

Design

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...nd Lee live in the historic 1937 Ortiz Taylor House and commissioned me to build a little library to go out front. They wanted one that looked like the architect’s drawing for a never built garage, so I did the best I could do to make the little library look like a southwestern adobe. A neighbor gifted me a nice new piece of 3/4 plywood and most of the rest of the components came from scrap wood I had laying around. The universe kinda came togethe...

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