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Weekend Linkages: Omicron, Belgian Houses and Farts in Jars

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Saturday Linkages
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Spotted in San Francisco: some strange brickwork. Omicron could peak in U.S. fairly soon. Maybe. 30 Belgian Houses That Are So Bad, They’re Good The Getty’s Gift to Locked Down Los Angeles: 71,139 Ed Ruscha Vintage Streetscape Photos Digitized Column: He’s L.A. food royalty. He began with a taco cart. Let street vendors thrive TikTok Star Who Sells Her Farts in Jars Starts Selling Fart NFTs A Night at the Church of Salt Bae, America’s Newest Cele...

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iMac Drive Upgrade

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Thoughtstylings
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...screen so as not to interfere with the sleek look of the damned thing. To peak under the foot of the iMac I had to lean it back and use my iPhone camera to magnify the type. As I leaned the heavy iMac I inadvertently tipped over a small statue of the Egyptian god Anubis that had been banished to the windowsill of the walk in closet above my computer. Anubis fell and struck my iPhone, shattering the screen. So I had to add a new iPhone screen to m...

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Brunch at the End of the End of History

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Thoughtstylings
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...he sense of Francis Fukuyama’s notion that liberal society has reached its peak, fulfilled all our needs and we can all just go to brunch. Fukuyama’s teleological fantasy hit a wall this month and brunch got permanently canceled. Food and Drugs One of the things I’m least looking forward to in the coming years, is hearing the raspy voice of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tapping into that spiritual unease I’ve just mentioned while, possibly, wielding immen...

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Essential System #5 – First Aid Kit

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Preparedness
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...e hospital emergency rooms of Los Angeles or any big city, even during non-peak hours, knows that your sorry ass often ends up on a stretcher parked in a forlorn hallway waiting for hours for a distracted and overworked doctor. Which is why, once again, we’ve relied on the world of mountaineering to inform our choice of first aid supplies. The assumption with a first aid kit in the wilderness is that it will be quite a while before you can be reac...

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Happy Mayan Apocalypse!

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Thoughtstylings
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...whole 2012 deal? I’m hoping the uneventful passing of this day will mark a peak in interest in apocalyptic scenarios. While I could opinionate about the Apocalypse meme, as John Michael Greer calls doomsday thinking, I think it would be best just to quote Greer from his book Apocalypse Not: there’s at least a chance that the upcoming failure of the 2012 prophecy might encourage people to take a hard and skeptical look at the apocalypse meme itself...

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