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Dovetails by Hand

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Design
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...d, outdated hand skills just for the sake of those skills. You can make perfectly serviceable drawers entirely by machine but if you have the time and are making things for yourself not for work, I think doing it by hand is the way to go....

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Introducing #ArtShopaholism and #BiblioShopaholism

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Design, Thoughtstylings
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...king a healthy dinner or cleaning the house. #ArtShopaholism: Not actually making art but, instead, shopping and/or obsessing over art supplies. I’ve found drawing useful, but it’s a skill you have to practice in order to get any good at. To counter this I’m only allowing myself to draw with whatever crappy ballpoint pen I have on me. No thinking about, buying or obsessing over having the “right” pen pencil or sketchpad. #BiblioShopaholism: Shoppi...

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Join or Die: Why You Should Join a Club

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Thoughtstylings
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.... I read this book when it came out and it had a profound influence on me, leading to years of joining clubs and organizations. The documentary is professionally produced and features some high level interviewees including Hillary Clinton, Pete Buttigieg and David Brooks. More importantly, the doc includes people actually involved in a wide variety of orgs such as the Odd Fellows, a farm-based church, a black bike advocacy group and union organize...

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These Cheese Puffs are Gangsta

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Food
...ys come back to the evergreen Onion gag about Nike supposedly giving up on making shoes and just doing ads. Maybe Snoop has strayed too far from his musical roots, what with his cavorting with Martha Stewart, chilling with Rick Caruso and clowning around at the Olympics. Perhaps, like the future shoe-free Nike company, he should swear off the music (if he hasn’t already?) and ascend to the realm of pure signs. Whereas we may have previously imagin...

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Disaster Nationalism: A Politics of Cleansing Violence

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...ment. In the book Seymour analyses the international rise of authoritarian leaders in the U.S., Brazil, The Philippines, Hungary and elsewhere and how these emerging movements create compelling, though false, narratives to explain real crises such as climate change, immigration and economic disparity. As Seymour puts it, “disaster nationalists offer a curative decivilization: violent restoration, followed by laughter and forgetting.” Against a bac...

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