Saturday Linkages: The ‘rona Week 4

April 18, 2020

...Image: from the Twitters, source unknown. The McMansion Hell Yearbook: 1973 #WrightVirtualVisits Meyer Lemon PAMAlade We Must Reclaim The Local – Commentary Beyond To-Do Lists Why is ‘cottagecore’ booming? Because being outside is now the ultimate taboo Bill Gates’s Philanthropic Giving Is a Racket...

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Saturday Linkages: Quarantine Week 4

Mr. Homegrown

April 11, 2020

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...Trout, my quarantine companion. Pebble mosaic garden carpets Pay Attention to Everything around you. Seize the Moment Canning Adjacent Cookbooks Support Chris Smalls who was fired by Amazon Spread knowledge, not the virus...

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Saturday Linkages: Covid and Non-Covid

Mr. Homegrown

April 4, 2020

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Hermann Hendrich, Parsifal. Mike Davis on Coronavirus: “In a Plague Year” What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage This Pandemic Is Not Your Vacation Take a break from the covid links: Make your own chalkboard paint with Eric of Garden Fork (and send Eric some love–one of his dogs passed on this week) Masoor Dal (Spiced Red Lentils) Recipe Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies The Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe Fall into a German symbolist...

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Saturday Linkages: Conference Call Blues Edition

Mr. Homegrown

March 28, 2020

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...Free ebook on how to lead a group online Old Laptop, Tablet or Phone? Here’s How They Can Help You Right Now The UK’s coronavirus policy may sound scientific. It isn’t Bobi Wine sings about cornavirus I think I’ve overdosed on Wagner Get some blueberry jam from a Root Simple reader!...

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Saturday Linkages: #quarantinecats

Mr. Homegrown

March 21, 2020

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...An overflowing pot of bean recipes Some guidelines for dealing with coronavirus in your home and community The Cloistered Garden Nassim Taleb on BBC4 on why this is not a “black swan” Some magazines I read: The Idler, The Baffler, Jacobin, Mortise and Tenon, Fine Woodworking, Fine Homebuilding ‘Honest Labour’ – the Column that Named the Book The Mystic And The Warrior Slavoj Zizek, Jordan Peterson and the Toilet Paper Candidate...

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