Are the rumors true? Does he love your big sphinx of quartz?

Aftermath once again showing the world what is possible with writing about video game culture and widening the frame of analysis. Worth the price of subscription on a weekly basis. Gita has really been on fire lately.

a chart from the linked study showing lead concentrations in the blood peaking for the US cohort peaking sharply from the late 1960s through the 1970s

You'd be supported by an awful lot of evidence:

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It's a real banger- really well executed and darn hard to put down!

Every single summer while visiting the grandparents, the apotheosis of the roadside attraction.

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Just read the opening and it is extremely relevant to my interests. Thank you for mentioning this.

I seem to recall Scott digging into this a bit in _The Art of Not Being Governed_.

A game of pac man, a couple hours on the parking meter, and coin op laundry machines. Iconic trifecta

Thank you repping this so hard! Made plans to see it in the art hour cinema the next town over and was just gobsmacked by the unrelenting audacity of vision and execution. Almost certainly wouldn't have been on my radar otherwise.

Love a solid bit of top shelf timeline serendipity

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Thanks for this! It looked like it might just the right kind of wacky, but I wasn't quite sure enough to pull the trigger. The Molleindustria Seal of Approval™ seals the deal.

Will never forget seeing this live. Breathtaking to feel this in the body witnessing a performance like this.

Good gravy, works like a champ even in my budget rice cooker (turns out it was a Zojirushi after all lol). Perhaps a little less toothsome than I prefer, but so so hassle free.

You changed my life, thank you!

I'll try it tomorrow with my trash rice cooker and report back - worst (best?) case is that I ruin it and have an excuse to finally upgrade to a Zojirushi rice cooker...

Have been using one of their boilers for *years* and love it, but just figured rice cookers are all the same.

Wait, WHAT?! Did you just change my steel cut oat loving life in one fell skeet?!?

I'm absolutely trying this with tomorrow's lunch

DO NOT APOLOGIZE FOR YOUR HEART

A photograph of the storefront of Hinkley Bakery in Brooklyn MI, know for their amazing donuts

The donuts at Hinkley Bakery are worth the trip

"Kardashian I civilization" is remarkably deft while also causing psychic damage. Really well done.

A passage from James C. Scott's _Two Cheers for Anarchism_: Although cost benefit analysis is a response to public political pressure - and here is one paradox - its success depends absolutely on appearing totally nonpolitical: objective, nonpartisan, and palpably scientific. Beneath this appearance, of course, cost-benefit analysis is deeply political. Its politics are buried deep in the techniques of calculation: in what to measure in the first place, in how to measure it, in what scale to use, in conventions of "discounting" and "commensuration," in how observations are translated into numerical values, and in how these numerical values are used in decision making. While fending off charges of political bias or favoritism, such techniques - and here is a second paradox - succeed brilliantly in entrenching a political agenda at the level of procedures and conventions of calculation that is doubly opaque and inaccessible.

The very frame is just so toxic at so many levels, and failing to see it for what it is just causes so much suffering. Felt the scales fall from my eyes reading this yesterday:

A can of beer in a red coozie that reads: "I like curling and maybe 3 people"

Participating in a curling league for the first time like

A photo of a transparent TWSBI Diamond 580 fountain pen resting atop a small pocket notepad in a leather flip case.

Just a TWSBI Diamond 580 for notes on the go. Been using obsessed with red lately, so Diamine Red Dragon ink it is.

Thank you for this!

Had a very excellent HS German prof that had us translate the lyrics as an exercise in 1986 and a) wished more people knew this and b) knew how anodyne the English version is by comparison.

Stunningly good - I can feel the contours of the story just from the tension and the energy in this. Marvelous!

A thing that I loved while discovering this in roller derby is that baseball went through the same phase shift in 1870 when two teams started 'spring training'.
It's fun to play a sport recreationally, *and* playing a sport competitively means training harder! Art can also be done in either mode!

This is correct. And precisely why both are delicious.

Thank you for linking all of these - I'm seeing them for the first time, they're stunningly deep and nuanced, providing tools and lenses, and bringing things into a very specific clarity that has been missing for some time. Thank you!

An image from Wikipedia of several 'whirligigs' - large artistic sculptures that have windmill-like components - in a park in Wilson, NC.

A shame that Volis Simpson's whirligig's didn't get picked out of the hat: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vollis_...