Weekend Linkages: Time for a Change in LA

October 9, 2022

...In leaked audio, LA City Councilmembers Nury Martinez, Gil Cedillo, and Kevin de León discuss redistricting, are extremely racist Make a metric clock William Shatner: My Trip to Space Filled Me With ‘Overwhelming Sadness’ Yet another gender reveal party disaster Denver destroyed by cars A fight over worms and moats San Francisco’s crosstown trail What the year 2000 was really like...

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Weekend Linkages: So much theory, so little time

Mr. Homegrown

September 12, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...“Reading is one of the duties of the person!” (Soviet Union, 1920) Via @communistposter If you read only one linkage this week read this gem in the Baffler: America, Ex Post Facto A little library turned Blockbuster Strange Zillow listing of the week The plastic garden That style known as 90s wacky pomo...

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Book Review: What the Robin Knows

Mrs. Homegrown

September 9, 2013

Animals, Reviews

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...ets of bird sounds and bird motion you see and hear in that place, at that time or day, at that time of year. To facilitate this recognition, he teaches you the five basic types of calls birds make (alarm calls, companion calls, etc.), using online audio files to help with the most common birds. He goes on to teach about behavior, predators, etc. Once you understand the baseline you will be able to tell when the baseline is disturbed, and eventual...

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On the 100th Birthday of Our House: The Past and Future of Housing in the U.S.

Mr. Homegrown

January 8, 2020

Design

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...commodity and convenience has become the oil that lubricates the wheel of time, allowing more activities, to take place either at one time in the same place (i.e. using the cellular car phones while driving), or in a particular time period but in a different place (i.e. doing grocery shopping, while dishes or clothes are machine washed). In the book, The Overworked American, 1991, Juliet Schor suggests that “U.S. employees currently work 320 more...

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Los Angeles: A New Beginning

Mr. Homegrown

February 15, 2019

Appropriate Technology, Bikes, Thoughtstylings, Transportation

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...ly conjunction of an algorithm and a raccoon. He realized it was well past time to learn to dig not learn to code. It was time to build sea walls instead of apps, bus lanes instead of battery packs, affordable housing instead of Olympic villages. With all the freeways gone he was able to make room for gardens and orchards. It was a new start. The people of LA were no longer consumers in a climate change crisis but, instead, neighbors working hard...

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