Thinking Local

April 5, 2019

...r the locals that read this blog I urge you to come out and vote tomorrow, Saturday April 6th from 12 to 6pm at St. Francis of Assissi 1523 Golden Gate Ave. Anyone who lives, works or belongs to an organization in Silver Lake is eligible to vote and I urge you to vote for the new Progressive Slate of candidates who promise to, so to speak, drain the reservoir of its current swamp creatures. For those of you not in Silver Lake, the problems with ou...

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No Tweets Just Cats

Mr. Homegrown

August 17, 2019

Animals, Cats

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...up the Twitters which usually forms the basis of a set of links I post on Saturday. Twitter has devolved into a way of monetizing people yelling at each other and I’m not missing it. I may look at it again, or I may figure out another way to do the link feature. At this point, I don’t know. But I’m happy to report my attention span, last fully appreciated in the pre-web 1990s, is slowly returning. I can now read long chapters of Thomas Pynchon’s...

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Quarantine Meals From Jennie Cook

Mr. Homegrown

April 15, 2020

Food

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...e used to do: cook home meals for pickup and delivery. Her food is delicious and the portions are generous. If you live in the Los Angeles area consider ordering some food from her. It will support Jennie and her employees and you’ll get a break from cooking. On Saturday Jennie sent over a package with an Easter ham dinner. While I’ve enjoyed cooking from scratch for the past four weeks it was nice to have a special meal for a change. Jennie’s del...

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Pumpkin Spice Pandemic

Mr. Homegrown

September 26, 2020

Saturday Linkages

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...ns and unemployment. Rather than the usual roundup of links that I post on Saturday I thought I’d put up just a few, three serious and one a lark. They all need a brief introduction. This first link is an interview with two Harvard epidemiologists Katherine Yih and Martin Kulldorf, “We Need a Radically Different Approach to the Pandemic and Our Economy as a Whole.” If you’d like to dig deeper in this particular pandemic hot take there’s another in...

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My Shaking

Mr. Homegrown

October 11, 2024

Preparedness

...to download the MyShake app. I was pet sitting for friends in Pomona last Saturday week when, in the early hours of Sunday morning around 3:51 am, the app’s loud warning sound beeped simultaneously with a 4.5 earthquake that rattled the house. I was half awake but the alarm woke me up completely. The cat ran off and the two little dogs looked around, decided it wasn’t worth worrying about, and went back to sleep. What I appreciated about the alar...

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