Saturday Linkages: Trash Panda Paradise

Image: @scarytoilet Jessie Newbery: embroidery as art Reflections on Larry Korn’s Passing, the Preciousness of Elders, Friendship, Love, Kindness, Care How to Say I Love You in Greenlandic An Arctic Alphabet The Secret to a Perfect Hot Glue Mold Planting the Natural Garden a new book by Piet Oudolf and Henk Gerritsen Poor Man’s Quinoa Bernie Sanders, filmstrip entrepreneur This year, why not serve your turkey with green maraschino cherries and wa...

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Saturday Linkages: And So On . . .

Chicken of the woods mushroom–more on this in a future post. Florence Caulfield and ‘The Illustrated Needlework Book’ This might be the most 2019 thing I’ve seen Sasquatch or Wendigo? Mysterious howls in Canadian wilderness spark confusion (Mini editorial: I think the native spirits are angry with us) Slavoj Žižek on recycling ecology and consumerism Bikelash’s Latest Tactics: Pedophile Smears and Conspiracy Theories Credit Card Skimmers Evolved:...

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Saturday Linkages: Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind

Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind, John Everett Millais 1892. Ornament Making in the Octavia Lab ‘The Best Thing You Can Do Is Not Buy More Stuff,’ Says ‘Secondhand’ Expert Do This Before It Snows! Snow Blower Maintenance A wheel education: the environmental diploma you earn by bike Cypress Park’s “Egghead Stonehenge” takes a hit Notes on an afternoon inside John Portman’s Bonaventure Hotel Should I Worry About Death Cap Mushroooms in California? Video:...

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Saturday Linkages: Holiday Edition

The Nativity, c. 1425 Fra Angelico (Fra Giovanni da Fiesole) Google Nest or Amazon Ring? Just reject these corporations’ surveillance and a dystopic future The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes How our cities failed us this decade: We let big tech take over and dragged our feet on climate, but it’s not too late for change Overlooked No More: Julia Morgan, Pioneering Female Architect Just a whole bunch of ca...

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Saturday Linkages: A Happy Yam New Year

...Yam courtesy of Doug Harvey. Make yourself a rowboat in 2020 Sidney Barnsley architect and craftsman Alan Moore on William Blake’s contempt for Newton Are cats modernists? Too Much Combustion, Too Little Fire Contrapoints on canceling Lawn out. Wildflowers in. “Act natural” pic.twitter.com/9rTkgM73te — Animal Memes (@AnimalMemer) December 29, 2019...

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