Watch a young Flannery O’Connor teaching her chicken to walk backwards
A thread on the horrors of parking
‘One of the worst jobs I ever had’: former Citizen employees on working for the crime app
Saturday Linkages
Holiday Weekend Linkages: Loquat Edition
Hi would you enjoy being depressed at downtown Camden in the 1930s vs today pic.twitter.com/xQtHHlYq6h
— Joseph (@bicycleriiights) May 27, 2021
Like loquats? Thank the Mexican orchard workers who saved them
Amazon Introduces Tiny ‘ZenBooths’ for Stressed-Out Warehouse Workers
Inside Citizen’s Dangerous Effort to Cash In On Vigilantism
Belcampo: ‘farm to door’ butcher admits misrepresenting origins of meat
Weekend Linkages: Floored
Armstrong Flooring model 5352, the best-selling flooring product ever made. Odds you’ve been in a house with this if you lived between 1930 and 2000: 100%. Designed by Hazel Dell-Brown of Armstrong. pic.twitter.com/dl6krEmPZq
— Mass for Shut-ins (Podcast) (@edburmila) May 17, 2021
City, Suburb, Server Farm: the Urban Geography of Amazon
Crime App Citizen is Driving a Security Car Around L.A. and Won’t Say Why
Build your own bamboo dome-like structure with giant grass’s zome building kit
Why are our cities built for 6ft-tall men? The female architects who fought back
Narrative Napalm Malcolm Gladwell’s apologia for American butchery
Goodwill stores have a message: Please stop donating trash
The US government should buy the Greyhound bus company. Hear me out
Weekend Linkages: All Plants and Mirrors
Build a protected garden enclosure
Mayor de Blasio’s strange burger and fries moment
A Visit to the CIA’s “Secret” Abstract Art Collection
Chipotle Is a Criminal Enterprise Built on Exploitation
A Caledonia house on the edge of a crumbling cliff has sold after a monthslong saga
The bells v the boutique hotel: the battle to save Britain’s oldest factory
Ever wonder what all of those surface car parking lots in downtown LA used to be?
How you can help stop Airbnb in LA
Programming note: I’ll return to blogging soon–been busy with workshop organization tasks, seeing actual people for the first time in 14 months and other mundane but blessed activities!
Weekend Linkages: Ghost Kitchens, Cats and Recursion
Some parody billboards just dropped in England and Wales. Via @BrentToderian
Goodbye to the Future: The Last Days of Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower
NSFW explanation of cat domestication
‘It’s like a place of healing’: the growth of America’s food forests
Print rooms, prints, and their printed borders