Saturday Tweets: Artichokes, Rants and Rare Bee Art

...://t.co/AURlMEUlyw — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 24, 2015 Another great podcast from @GardenForkTV: #bees #weightloss and #BBQ: http://t.co/d2Exgap3op — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 24, 2015 Support #Westwood bike lane #completestreets #greatstreetsLA @lacbc call or email Councilman #PaulKoretz 213.473.7005 paul.koretz@lacity.org — Joel Epstein (@thejoelepstein) July 23, 2015 Pictures: Rare Bees Make Flower-Mud "Sandwiches" http://t.co/5LFMWU...

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Weekend Linkages: May Day Edition

...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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A Crisis of the Real: A Levitating Saints and a French Theory Remix

...e. Let’s fly again. If this book floats your boat you’ll enjoy my favorite podcast Weird Studies which turned me on to Eire’s work. I kind of wish this was real and not just a meme. Theory Bound As an example of just how disjointed my morning reading can be, I also just finished Fredric Jameson’s book The Years of Theory: Postwar French Thought to the Present, a transcription of a lecture series delivered via Zoom during the pandemic. Jameson in l...

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