Weekend Linkages: May Day Edition

May 1, 2022

...Billy Bragg sings the Internationale William Morris How I Became a Socialist Vision zero is going well here in LA Riding a bike in American should not be this dangerous Texas Plans to Punish Companies That Move Away From Fossil Fuels Buckets and Hydroponic Baskets for Growing Summer Veggies I’m for more caftans The right kind of worker (a podcast episode for your May Day)...

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Tree Bondage

Mr. Homegrown

May 30, 2016

Events, Gardening

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...you do a class announcement. Robert Kourik, our guest on episode 69 of our podcast, sent me an email that had me laughing and wishing that I lived in Northern California so that I could attend his upcoming talk: Tree Bondage: and solutions I’ll show dozens of misshaped, abused and tortured trees, from mangled roots, to poorly-tended trunks and grossly manipulated canopies. I will show photographs of trees in bondage and discuss healthy alternative...

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Weekend Linkages: Spring is Here According to the Fig Tree

Mr. Homegrown

March 13, 2022

Saturday Linkages

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...The battle of Bir Tawil Why A Small-Scale Artist Is Rebuilding Tiny Versions Of Iconic LA Buildings, Including This Eastside Burrito Joint Neutra house for sale in Redlands St Mary’s, Mundon, Essex The Polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky A podcast about the very strange Alexandr Dugin: Russia’s State Philosopher...

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The Fertile Ground of Bewliderment

Mr. Homegrown

May 29, 2017

Podcasts, Thoughtstylings

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...[Editors note 2022: I’ve come to see Eisenstein’s thinking as deeply flawed listen to this podcast for what I agree are many of the problems with his work]...

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There’s No Such Thing as a Free Watch

Mr. Homegrown

February 16, 2018

Thoughtstylings

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...e internet. On the one hand I’m thankful for the platform of this blog and podcast as well as instant access to a whole world of useful how-to information and videos. But, the other day while doing an image search for William Blake’s Urizen, I landed on a hateful anti-Semitic website. Grossed out, I retreated to the computer-free early twentieth century technology of my garage workshop where the Butlerian Jihad backstory of Frank Herbert’s novel D...

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