Weekend Linkages: Billionaires Gone Wild

July 11, 2021

...Via @AmbJohnBoIton. The Billionaire Space Race Is a Tragically Wasteful Ego Contest Elon Musk’s Plan to Dig Car Tunnels Under Miami Is Filled With Holes Giving the Sickness a Name: Walker Percy & acedia Stripped Down: How Hollywood’s Favorite Pole-Dancing Studio Came Undone...

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Weekend Linkages: 217 Vacuum Cleaners

Mr. Homegrown

September 19, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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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 Building with Mushrooms Traditional technique of hand ironi...

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Weekend Linkages: So much theory, so little time

Mr. Homegrown

September 12, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...“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 Strange Zillow listing of the week The plastic garden That style known as 90s wacky pomo...

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Weekend Linkages: Pyramids, Strange Houses and F-ing Gourds

Mr. Homegrown

September 5, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...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) Strangest Zillow listing ever The Diapers.com Guy Wants to Build a Utopian Megalopolis F-ing gourd season Can We Live Without Twitter?...

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Weekend Linkages: Happiness is $5.99

Mr. Homegrown

August 29, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...How to have a Great-Looking Native Plant Garden There’s a run on horse pills and it ain’t about horses Looking back on #Jamgate The art of dump picking Riotlandia: Why Portland has become an epicenter for far right violence The Carbon Footprint Sham The strange world of grammar conspiracies A very groovy 1972 art history lesson from John Berger...

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