Sunday, June 09, 2019

Sunday Links

Punk girls with Belinda Carlisle from the Go-Go’s in the center.
Los Angeles, 1978. Photo by Mike Murphy.
“Untypical Girls”: Early Photographs Of Women In Punk From Between The Late 1970s And Early 1990s

How lovely is this? Noble Barn, Nr. Henley-on-Thames, Berkshire

When patrons in late 19th century New York ordered an ale or whisky, the waiter brought them "an old desiccated ruin of dust-laden bread and mummified ham or cheese" alongside it. Gastro Obscura explains why.

A Vancouver market is handing out embarrassing plastic bags to customers Thanks Bruce!

The Giger Bar: This 1980s Tokyo bar was designed by the artist who created the nightmarish monster in Ridley Scott's Alien.

How a '70s Anthropological Experiment Turned into the "Sex Raft"

Cops responding to burglary call confronted by complete animal

A map of the Lost Rivers of Toronto  In 1802 there were numerous rivers flowing through Toronto into Lake Ontario. Over the last two hundred years many have been buried or removed to create space for the city's  development. Via

To mark the 47th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission, the Smithsonian has made available a high-resolution 3-D scan of the command module “Columbia” See it here

Feel Good Stories From Trump’s America - Made me laugh.

An Afternoon with Leonard Cohen: "He was neither Porter Wagoner nor Merle Haggard. There was no thread of connection with either The Byrds or The Beatles, nothing in common with Amon Düül or Harry Partch’s 43-tone scale. At the time I was more curious about smoke, potions, powders, girls, and Garcia than a poet from Canada."

Download Over 90,000 Historic Maps from David Rumsey Map Collection

Les animaux tels qu'ils sont How to draw animals. Thanks Bruce!

Maurice Sendak’s Wild, Beautiful Opera Sets 

From Woody Guthrie to Prince: The Instruments Behind Iconic Rock 'n' Roll Moments

The Training Commission  A serial fiction newsletter by Brendan Byrne and Ingrid Burrington, launching spring 2019.

A Kafkaesque List of Things Described as Kafkaesque

Conquer and Divide For over half a century, Israel has created a reality of dispossession, oppression and human rights abuses in Gaza and the West Bank.

The Good Old Days When Women Could Divorce Their Husbands By Having Intercourse in Court Via

Because I know you love games: The Music Lab does citizen science to learn how the human mind creates and perceives music. Via

Fabergé Potato?

Which Movie Chef Makes The Best Food? I agree with the #1 choice.

How to make the perfect Grilled Pizza at home. I learned that it is a two-person job and that a pizza peel is useful.

Helen Liu Fong gave Googie architecture its flair Via PfRC

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