Weekend Linkages: Summer Heat, Oaks and QAnon

June 27, 2021

...e a pomegranate via @aic_ancient. 100 British chairs When Old Oaks Fall Nabhan: Food and Farming Crisis Requires Both Science and Faith Is Geotagging on Instagram Ruining Natural Wonders? Some Say Yes California’s yoga, wellness and spirituality community has a QAnon problem Uber and Lyft Donated to Community Groups Who Then Pushed the Companies’Agenda California dodges worst of historic Pacific Northwest heatwave, but long-duration heatwave still...

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Thinking Local

Mr. Homegrown

April 5, 2019

Thoughtstylings

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...idualism and consumerism. In the past most people belonged to some sort of community group such as a club, synagogue, church, lodge etc. In those groups we used to see each other socially outside the closed domains of our homes, making the kind of meanness and dissension we’ve seen here in Silver Lake less likely to happen. This is not to say that things were perfect when we had more affiliations. You could also get groups like the KKK. And the de...

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Fallen Fruit

Mr. Homegrown

April 20, 2007

Events, Food, Foraging, Gardening

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...beautiful. WE ASK all of you to petition your cities and towns to support community gardens and only plant fruit-bearing trees in public parks. Let our streets be lined with apples and pears! Demand that all parking lots be landscaped with fruit trees which provide shade, clean the air and feed the people. FALLEN FRUIT is a mapping and manifesto for all the free fruit we can find. Every day there is food somewhere going to waste. We encourage you...

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In Praise of Disorder

Mr. Homegrown

March 29, 2008

Thoughtstylings

7 Comments

...hour a day shifts churning out sitcoms and bad movies. Los Angeles has the community spirit of an anonymous internet chat room, with meaningful dialog replaced by never ending flame wars. It’s also America, where the majority of the population is clinically depressed. And one of the indicator behaviors for depression is an irrational fixation on minor annoyances, like barking dogs, leaf litter, raccoons and group bicycle rides. Go to any neighborh...

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Reject Modernity Embrace Post-Capitalism

Mr. Homegrown

July 4, 2022

Thoughtstylings

10 Comments

...a YouTuber who goes by the name Skeleton88 whose hobby seems to consist of making high res videos with a GoPro mounted on top of a car while driving around Las Vegas and other western U.S. cities. His videos, as bleak as anything in the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft or Thomas Ligotti, have no narration or music. I don’t know Skeleton88’s motivations. Sometimes I think these sorts of videos are about blaming homeless people and sex workers for...

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