To Be a Field of Poppies: The elegant science of turning cadavers into compost
Saturday Linkages
Weekend Linkages: Smoking Chickens
I really gotta stop looking at Twitter but that’s where you find images of smoking chickens.
Is that a dishwasher or a Hindu temple? Inside kitsch pomo masterpiece Cosmic House (Thanks for the link Nic!)
One Work: Gelatin’s The B-Thing
Meet Thatcher Wine: the ‘celebrity bibliophile’ you didn’t know you needed
The Last Glimpses of California’s Vanishing Hippie Utopias (Thanks Daniel for the link!)
How To Build Your Own Trippy Meditation Pod
Insects are vanishing from our planet at an alarming rate. But there are ways to help them
Improving tiny urban greenspaces causes huge boosts in insect life
If Hollywood Workers Strike, the Entertainment Industry Will Grind to a Halt
Weekend Linkages: 217 Vacuum Cleaners
Spotted on a dog walk. FYI, I think it’s a joke.
Long Twitter thread on cats that hide inside of furniture
I think this might be my favorite bit of opera (thank you Lee!)
My neighbor Chap does these amazing recreations of the colors of ancient statuary
Looking for a cookbook made by motorcycle clubs or clowns?
The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship
Weekend Linkages: So much theory, so little time
“Reading is one of the duties of the person!” (Soviet Union, 1920) Via @communistposter
If you read only one linkage this week read this gem in the Baffler: America, Ex Post Facto
A little library turned Blockbuster
Weekend Linkages: Pyramids, Strange Houses and F-ing Gourds
Orange free peaches, painted by Elsie E. Lower, 1910. Via @pomological.
A stepped pyramid in the desert
Where did SARS-CoV-2 come from?
People are still taking that horse medication
That time someone tried to set up a Vietnam war theme park (a podcast)