Saturday Linkages: A Happy Yam New Year

...Yam courtesy of Doug Harvey. Make yourself a rowboat in 2020 Sidney Barnsley architect and craftsman Alan Moore on William Blake’s contempt for Newton Are cats modernists? Too Much Combustion, Too Little Fire Contrapoints on canceling Lawn out. Wildflowers in. “Act natural” pic.twitter.com/9rTkgM73te — Animal Memes (@AnimalMemer) December 29, 2019...

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Saturday Tweets: A Solar Powered Blog, Caravansaries, Moths and Michaelmas

...trong Towns (@StrongTowns) September 28, 2018 pic.twitter.com/9YKuEgexZD — Cats (@SpaceCatPics) September 28, 2018 We grieve, with the entire Los Angeles food community, the loss of our friend, colleague and former Co-Chair Ernest Miller. An exuberant teacher, passionate advocate for real food and an encyclopedic resource of all things edible, he will be deeply missed. pic.twitter.com/bOzcaZUDeE — Slow Food L.A. (@slowfoodla) September 24, 2018 Er...

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Saturday Tweets: Linotype, Support Squirrels and an East Hollywood Tower

...lifornia 4-H (@California4H) October 13, 2018 pic.twitter.com/QuKY5LCy21 — Cats (@SpaceCatPics) October 7, 2018 Sir John Golafre (died 1442) was a courtier & Knight of the Shire for Berkshire in numerous parliaments. At his death he was buried in Fyfield church in Berkshire in this transi tomb. On the top he is shown as he was in life and in the tomb chest he is shown as he is in death. pic.twitter.com/ufQFdepOui — Allan Barton (@vitrearum) Octobe...

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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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P-22 Festival Today!

...Hey Angelinos–I’ll be in the Wild Yards Project booth with my friend David Newsom at today’s P-22 Festival. Drop by and celebrate wild yards and big cats!...

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