Weekend Linkages: Perfection Salad

Strange Zillow listing of the week Frank Sinatra’s Chatsworth Home Listed For $21.5M (It’s actually kinda nice) Cat on a hot satellite dish: Elon Musk’s Starlink antenna hits surprise problem Climate change, rising temperatures will lead to rise in kidney stones – study Vision Zero failure: 18 bike riders killed in Los Angeles in 2021 Gas stoves and indoor air quality There is No Red Pill Hacked Prius Running on MUNI Power Lines (spoiler: this is...

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Weekend Linkages: Omicron, Belgian Houses and Farts in Jars

Spotted in San Francisco: some strange brickwork. Omicron could peak in U.S. fairly soon. Maybe. 30 Belgian Houses That Are So Bad, They’re Good The Getty’s Gift to Locked Down Los Angeles: 71,139 Ed Ruscha Vintage Streetscape Photos Digitized Column: He’s L.A. food royalty. He began with a taco cart. Let street vendors thrive TikTok Star Who Sells Her Farts in Jars Starts Selling Fart NFTs A Night at the Church of Salt Bae, America’s Newest Cele...

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Weekend Linkages: Historic Rain

...The truth about California’s annual termite swarms Can’t confirm this but some people might be eating monkey chow Man Obsessed With ’90s Lives In Time Capsule And Uses Outdated Technology Way beyond my abilities but this lip syncing project made me laugh How to Build a Low-tech Solar Panel Friend of the blog Jenn Berger has an art show up I saw a good cat this weekend Stay safe California friends...

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Weekend Linkages: Happy Holidays!

...Image found in the depths of Twitter. Feeding the Poop Log: A Catalan Christmas Tradition Unhinged Victorian Christmas cards Anti-Vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s House Party Guests Told to Get Vaccinated Before Coming Oregon lost world’s biggest log cabin in spectacular 1964 fire L.A. can no longer afford to push bikes and buses aside Protect the underground!...

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