There she goes, my beautiful world

...sant space to work in. So amidst the tools are a few tchotchkes, images of cats and Bernie Sanders signs to remind me of happy before-times. Spending time in this space does not completely allay a foreboding sense of anxiety about the world but it’s certainly better than sitting in the house doom scrolling Twitter. One of those Sanders signs says, “Fight the Power” a kind of pun in that I’ve, unintentionally, managed to assemble a work practice th...

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Saturday Linkages: Can’t Stop the Memes

...Turn Off Your Mind, Relax—and Float Right-Wing? Chairman Mao Invented Traditional Chinese Medicine “Cocaine of the sea” — the illegal fish trade of the Mexican cartel and Chinese mafia Meaty meals and play stop cats killing wildlife, study finds NeoPixel Ancient Oil Lamp Kelly Norris on New Naturalism and Informed Plant Choices Grow Your Own Giant Sequoia Tree I love lava...

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Weekend Linkages: 217 Vacuum Cleaners

Spotted on a dog walk. FYI, I think it’s a joke. Long Twitter thread on cats that hide inside of furniture I think this might be my favorite bit of opera (thank you Lee!) My neighbor Chap does these amazing recreations of the colors of ancient statuary Looking for a cookbook made by motorcycle clubs or clowns? The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship Building with Mushrooms Traditional technique of hand ironi...

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Weekend Linkages: Umarells and Oki Dogs

...A friend left a bag of ratchet straps and one of the cats has been sitting in it for a week I think being an Umarell is in my future (thank you to John Zapf for this mind blowing Wikipedia article) A 2-way wrist radio At SXSW, A Pathetic Tech Future Struggles to Be Born “We’ll see you all at Oki-Dogs”: The story of L.A.’s legendary punk hangout (with hot dogs) Down on Alvarado Street by the Pioneer Chicken Stand...

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Midnight in the Desert

...o: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA5KIRChve0 And Part II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLXPBGitdDg Bell’s show had an eeriness to it aided by the fact that he was broadcasting live from a remote compound in the Nevada desert in the middle of the night surrounded by his cats and ham radio gear. Bell’s show was the soundtrack of the American West’s vast deserts and forests, a landscape of secret government programs where the only sound is the m...

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