Weekend Linkages: Perfection Salad

January 16, 2022

Strange Zillow listing of the week Frank Sinatra’s Chatsworth Home Listed For $21.5M (It’s actually kinda nice) Cat on a hot satellite dish: Elon Musk’s Starlink antenna hits surprise problem Climate change, rising temperatures will lead to rise in kidney stones – study Vision Zero failure: 18 bike riders killed in Los Angeles in 2021 Gas stoves and indoor air quality There is No Red Pill Hacked Prius Running on MUNI Power Lines (spoiler: this is...

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Weekend Linkages: Omicron, Belgian Houses and Farts in Jars

Mr. Homegrown

January 9, 2022

Saturday Linkages

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Spotted in San Francisco: some strange brickwork. Omicron could peak in U.S. fairly soon. Maybe. 30 Belgian Houses That Are So Bad, They’re Good The Getty’s Gift to Locked Down Los Angeles: 71,139 Ed Ruscha Vintage Streetscape Photos Digitized Column: He’s L.A. food royalty. He began with a taco cart. Let street vendors thrive TikTok Star Who Sells Her Farts in Jars Starts Selling Fart NFTs A Night at the Church of Salt Bae, America’s Newest Cele...

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Weekend Linkages: Christmas!

Mr. Homegrown

December 25, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...Well, this certainly does sound like an…unusual Christmas party Christmas gift ideas from medieval manuscripts A sensible seeming Twitter thread on where we’re at Covid-wise Takeover: when the Young Lords took over a hospital in the Bronx Caffè Shakerato (Italian-Style Shaken Iced Coffee) Recipe Sonoma County farm strikes black truffle gold after 9 years of waiting Some very cool trains...

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Weekend Linkages: Happy Holidays!

Mr. Homegrown

December 19, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...Image found in the depths of Twitter. Feeding the Poop Log: A Catalan Christmas Tradition Unhinged Victorian Christmas cards Anti-Vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s House Party Guests Told to Get Vaccinated Before Coming Oregon lost world’s biggest log cabin in spectacular 1964 fire L.A. can no longer afford to push bikes and buses aside Protect the underground!...

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Weekend Linkages: Fettling the Mouth

Mr. Homegrown

December 12, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...DIY Pringles Can Secret Safe Bear attacking an inflatable reindeer in Monrovia Bros., Lecce: We Eat at The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever and a response from the chef Freeways force out residents in communities of color — again The Fyre festival of Christmas Legend of the Big Boy Graveyard I want this house...

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