Waking up on New Year’s Day with the world of long crowing roosters

January 1, 2009

...ot suggesting these guys for urban situations, but New Year’s Day seems an appropriate moment to survey the world of long crowing roosters. According to poultry expert Gail Damerow, writing in the current issue of Backyard Poultry Magazine, long crowers probably have their origins in Japan and have spread throughout the world through deliberate selection. Here’s a play list for your listening pleasure, consisting of a Turkish long crowing breed, t...

Read…

Irving Gill: the Greatest Architect You’ve Never Heard Of

Mr. Homegrown

July 27, 2018

Design

2 Comments

...od the Mediterranean climate of Southern California and designed buildings appropriate to the climate. I don’t know why we don’t have more courtyards like this one designed by Gill. He pioneered concrete tilt-up construction and was a master of the multi-unit bungalow court. Most of all I think he understood form and proportion. That’s how you can spot his elegant buildings. If one were to write the Southern California version of William Morris’ N...

Read…

I don’t hear you singing in the wire . . .

Mr. Homegrown

June 14, 2008

Thoughtstylings

2 Comments

...radio (perhaps a good idea considering AT&T’s repair service–I’d hate to see what they’d be like in an earthquake). In the meantime we leave you with a song that seems appropriate under our circumstances, Wichita Lineman, often described as the “first existential country song”:...

Read…

June: National Bathroom Reading Month

Mr. Homegrown

June 26, 2008

Thoughtstylings

2 Comments

...and Nancy have gears at all? Wouldn’t brake-less fixed gear bikes be more appropriate given the punk rock (not to mention murder/suicide) reference? Arthur Magazine. Homegrown Evolution, being cheap, can never pass up a free publication when we see one though we usually skip stooping to pick up the senior citizen rag Not Born Yesterday. Arthur is always worth picking up. Lot’s of great articles here from The Center for Tactical Magic, Erik Davis...

Read…

Allium ursinum

Mr. Homegrown

April 2, 2008

Gardening

1 Comment

...ves in moist, acidic soil–forest conditions, in other words. In short, not appropriate for our climate in Los Angeles, but folks in the northwest might consider planting some. Like all members of the Allium species it’s toxic to dogs, but we’ve never had a problem with our dog eating onions (he prefers raiding our avocado tree and tomato bushes for illicit snacks). Special thanks to Steve Rowell of the Center for Land Use Interpretation for the ph...

Read…