Picture Sundays: A Square Toilet

July 6, 2014

Photo: Bill Wheelock. When I was unable to attend this year’s Dwell Magazine convention I asked my friend and neighbor Bill Wheelock to make sure and get a photo of any square toilets he might see for the Root Simple blog. Thank you Bill! Don’t worry, I’m not pondering dropping $1,000 on a square toilet. But, thanks to my curiosity about this modernist design phenomenon, square toilets are now haunting me via contextual ads all over the interwebs...

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Picture Sundays: Gangster Kale

Mr. Homegrown

July 13, 2014

Picture Sundays

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...Spotted on Sunset Boulevard: kale graffiti. Not sure what it means, but the kale gang better look out for the purslane and spigarello gangs....

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Picture Sundays: Outhouse Propaganda

Mr. Homegrown

December 15, 2013

Picture Sundays

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...Agreed. From the WPA Federal Art Project, (between 1936 and 1941) via the Library of Congress. There’s a high res version in case you need a last minute Christmas gift....

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Picture Sunday: Two of My Favorite Activities . . .

Mr. Homegrown

December 8, 2013

Bikes, Picture Sundays, Transportation

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.... . . biking and fencing, combined into one bad idea. See more Edwardian bike tricks here....

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Picture Sundays: Superbowl Edition

Mr. Homegrown

February 2, 2014

Picture Sundays

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It’s the time of year when my in-box fills with misguided attempts to get me to blog about Superbowl snacks such as a bag of chocolate covered pretzels that looked like–there’s no nice way to say this–a sack of humanure. In response I’m posting, for the second year in a row, the gatefold of the ZZ Top album Tres Hombres. No snack stadium could possible out-compete this Texas sized combo platter. What are you up to today? Watching the game? Prepar...

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