Weekend Linkages: I Looked at Twitter So You Don’t Have To

July 3, 2022

...emails show inconsistencies with stance against bike lanes My neighbor’s dog smells the chicken I’m grilling They still make nice new buildings A thread on eco-fascism cats CAN’T have a little salami You can visit Mt. Wilson! Editors note: new post coming tomorrow, God willing....

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Weekend Linkages: Towards a DIY Spring

Mr. Homegrown

April 30, 2023

Saturday Linkages

...When public transportation took you to the mountains in SoCal. Image: Library of Congress. Jumping the Gap: Where Green Transphobia Leads DIY smart watering system Easy Way to Clean Gutters AI pizza ad Kim Gordon Denies Getting Bit By A Coyote At Whole Foods H.P. Lovecraft’s Completely Normal Obsession with Cats...

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Weekend Linkages: Spring Brain Dump

Mr. Homegrown

April 7, 2024

Saturday Linkages

...‘Les Animaux Mythologiques’ by Hinzelin Emile, (1857 – 1937) US spends billions on roads rather than public transport in ‘climate time bomb’ Amazon Ditches ‘Just Walk Out’ Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores Did Pope Gregory IX Order A Medieval Purge of Black Cats That Caused the Black Death? Christianity Was Always for the Poor The night people All the buildings on Sunset Boulevard...

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The Return of the Portière?

Mr. Homegrown

August 11, 2017

Design

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...front door that looks straight into the bathroom. Add to this problem two cats who love to bang open the bathroom door and you’ve got a recipe for an embarrassing encounter with the UPS man. Could a portière be in our future? A portière is a curtain that hangs in a doorway. It has a dual function: privacy and heat conservation. It stands in where a door would be clunky and inconvenient. Unfortunately, other than the beaded curtain fad of the 1960...

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The Spatial Horror of House of Leaves

Mr. Homegrown

October 31, 2024

Reviews

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...f many souls across a backdrop of dark streets, crumbling bungalows, feral cats and rundown 60s era apartment buildings. It would be a spoiler to get too much into the love story, but I’ll just say that Danielewski proves that a post-modern novel need not lack emotional resonance. In fact, the condition and characteristics of post-modernity, the non-linear jump cuts, the instability of the grand narratives of the past, the hyperspacial horror of o...

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