Weekend Linkages: A Random Beginning to 2023

January 8, 2023

...Church members propose urban village for congregation A Very Moynihan Train Hall Thanksgiving: ‘Wow, I Can’t Even Sit Down?’ Hero of 2022: Those LA Police Funding Billboards Gramsci on hating new year’s day 2-Dog Backpack Boat: the Dogmaran Are Aliens Who Visit Earth Likely to Be Socialist?...

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2022 in Review: Cats, Mushrooms and Politics

Mr. Homegrown

December 31, 2022

Thoughtstylings

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...apture at least one swarm of bees and hand them off to a friend who has an urban farm and apiary. Kelly and I have a pet sitting arrangement with some friends of ours. When we go away they watch our menagerie and when they go away I head out to Pomona to look after Harpo the parrot and his dog, cat and gecko companions. Random Wanderings When you see a display of fake plastic corn dogs you have to take a picture. I tried and failed to get through...

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Weekend Linkages: Better Streets, Rental Gardens and Roombas That Spy

Mr. Homegrown

August 7, 2022

Saturday Linkages

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...Medicine cabinets in the Pacific Ready Cut catalog. Better streets via AI New (and Old) Books for Urban and Rental Gardens A tread on why Amazon buying Roomba isn’t a good thing Strange Zillow listing of the week...

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Weekend Linkages: Scatological Jumpsuits

Mr. Homegrown

March 6, 2022

Saturday Linkages

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...Urban spelunking: Flushing out the reason for that lone basement toilet Loungin’ – The Original Onesies Dog Poop – The Secret Ingredient in Victorian Leather (Thank you Lee for the link)...

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RIP Michael Brooks

Mr. Homegrown

July 24, 2020

Thoughtstylings

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...now in. My writing beat, what has, for lack of a better term, been called “urban homesteading” is poisoned by that individualism which manifests in a concept of self sufficiency whose ultimate destination is a lonely existence in a doomstead bunker. I’ve always tried to point out that we’re all in this together, that we need to build up our households and our communities. It’s not one or the other. Michael was just beginning to formulate a strateg...

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