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Weekend Linkages: Advent Hauntology

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All Saint’s Margaret Street. Photo: Diliff

A Plea to Resurrect the Christmas Tradition of Telling Ghost Stories

If you like the idea of Christmas ghost stories let me recommend the writings of M.R. James that you can access here for free

Eric Garcetti’s Broken Sidewalks

Coincidence department: Will Self discovers evensong and the hidden charm of All Saint’s, Margaret Street (which we visited last month in London)

Watch out for the flu

Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Christmas Tree Pops

Weekend Linkages: Covid Brain Edition

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How to take care of your avocado trees

Polyrhythms played on two Igbo cowbells

LA City Council meeting now with more cowbell

Outrage: future generations will laugh in horror and derision at the folly of facadism

Weirdcore and the Eerie Atmospheres of Postmodernity

Rationalist Harry Potter and the Collapse of Crypto

Elon’s Biggest Boondoggle Why did the world’s richest man spend the past five years trying to sell cities a hole in the ground?

The Truth Was Out There: On the Legacy of Art Bell

Weekend Linkages: Time for a Change in LA

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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