Saturday Linkages: And So On . . .

November 16, 2019

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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Allegedly Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder Not Rat Proof

Mr. Homegrown

June 10, 2020

Gardening, Pests

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...t companions. I have taken steps elsewhere in the yard to reduce rats. The chicken feed gets locked up at night (the critter cam showed the rats are active between 11pm and 4am) and I try, not always successfully, to keep things neat. Back in the 90s I worked at a mouse infested TV station. We had a scale model of a set that was being built for a talk show. One of my coworkers had the bright idea to put a camera on the little set and smear it with...

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Saturday Linkages: Gaslighting the Quarantine Cats

Mr. Homegrown

June 13, 2020

Saturday Linkages

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...remely unsafe” measures to sanitize their food and kitchens 3 Reasons Your Chicken May Display Red Legs Time to Get Blueberries in Your Freezer? Strawberry Feijoa Jam Your wedding’s been cancelled by the coronavirus lockdown? Good Inside NextDoor’s Karen problem What It’s Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride Writer Lane Moore condensed my mood in a Tweet, is anyone else feeling gaslit all the time lately? I’m wearing my mask everywhere I go, I...

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On Moldy Jam

Mr. Homegrown

July 27, 2020

Food, Food Preservation

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...we see a failed restaurant owner wallowing in laziness and expired tubs of chicken wings. In the second half Daddy Ramsey comes along to yell profanities (in the American version ’cause that’s how we roll here) and redeem the fallen owner. Perhaps Kitchen Nightmares holds up a mirror to our own moldy souls while offering the promise of a quasi-religious redemptive cycle. We’re all caught up in the shiny distraction of the internet and the latest N...

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Weekend Linkages: Umarells and Oki Dogs

Mr. Homegrown

March 27, 2022

Saturday Linkages

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...A friend left a bag of ratchet straps and one of the cats has been sitting in it for a week I think being an Umarell is in my future (thank you to John Zapf for this mind blowing Wikipedia article) A 2-way wrist radio At SXSW, A Pathetic Tech Future Struggles to Be Born “We’ll see you all at Oki-Dogs”: The story of L.A.’s legendary punk hangout (with hot dogs) Down on Alvarado Street by the Pioneer Chicken Stand...

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