Looking for the Union Label

September 12, 2007

...d a highly catchy ad jingle from the roller disco era, “Look for the Union Label” (youngsters can watch it on youtube here). We looked for the union label and we were surprised to find it via a company called Union House which carries a functional, if unexciting line of apparel. Unless hipsters take to golf shirts in an ironic fashion judo move, these offerings will never be cool like the domestically made clothes made by the union busting folks o...

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Weekend Linkages: Art, Hoarding and Drug Eggs

Mr. Homegrown

March 17, 2024

Saturday Linkages

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...Print by Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) high res scans available here. Search for art images The Art of Meredith James Marie Kondo Appalled! Extreme Hoarding and Trash-filled Homes in Japan Here’s how to see ‘horned’ comet 12P/Pons-Brooks in the night sky this month How to make drug eggs...

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Salsa Dancing in a World Without Oil

Mr. Homegrown

August 14, 2008

Events

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...vated citizen artists. The festival doubles as a thank you to the range of artists, arts and community organizers whose assistance in response to the Department of Public Works’ concerns helped rescue the project. These include: Dorit Cypis (Foreign Exchanges), Jenna Didier of Materials & Applications, Jon Lapointe & Otoño Luján of Side Street Projects, Jay Belloli from The Armory Center for the Arts, and Zazu Faure & the others in the Glassell Pa...

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Conspirituality

Mr. Homegrown

January 22, 2021

Thoughtstylings

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...on of some dubious ideas about vaccinations. Rather than get angry, the hosts of Conspirituality had Eisenstein on their show to model both civil discourse and to challenge his post-modern relativism. Their long two part discussion (part 1, part 2) is well worth listening to as both a model for productive dialog and if you have doubts about the vaccine. If any of you listen to this show I’d love to hear your opinions, specifically if you think it...

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Picture Sundays: Memory Castle

Mr. Homegrown

May 22, 2016

Picture Sundays

An example of a memory palace or “method of loci.” From the description of this woodcut, which is in the collection of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford: The Tower of Wisdom is constructed of a basement supported by 4 buttresses, a first floor with 5 windows and a double door reached by a staircase of 7 steps, above which rises the keep of a castle constructed with 12 courses of 10 stones inscribed with the names of religious virtu...

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