Sunday Links
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Snow covers beaches and the Hollywood sign in a rare California snowstorm (photo above). See more at the New York Times link
Read The Tiddler, a very short story by Charlie Gilmour. (via Web Curios)
International Dark Sky Sanctuaries are designed to increase awareness of these fragile sites and promote their long-term conservation. There are just seventeen of them in the world.
If You Give a Bear Cocaine: He’ll check himself into a rehab center called Think Pawsitive. He’ll get clean and go to group sessions and talk about his father, who went viral after breaking into a house and playing piano on a security camera, how the press called his father “Bear-thoven,” and how that put a lot of pressure on him when he was growing up.
Mouth actor demonstrates how different actors reveal their teeth to speak.
You can buy Ferris Bueller's 1961 250 California Spyder replica.
Mariposa Gets Feist, Tegan and Sara, Rufus Wainwright for 2023 Festival It's been a long time since my last Mariposa concert. The lineup for this year's festival is stellar!
Giant Clothespin Bench designed by Matheson Woodwork features a painted non-functioning spring assembly. Prices start at $8,250.
Inland Iglu helps you build the ultimate winter ice fort.
The Invisible House in Joshua Tree is for sale but you probably can't afford it.
A 5,000-year-old tavern with food still inside was discovered in Lagash, Iraq, a 1,000-acre archaeological site that was was one of the largest and oldest cities in all of southern Mesopotamia.
Centuries ago many Britons paid their rent in eels. An interactive map shows the places where eel-rents appear in the historical record. (via everlasting blort)
Shake Shacks: In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the government built 5,610 "earthquake shacks" to help resident weather the winter months.
Portraits famous photographers have taken of their partners
Listen to James Joyce read "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from his frustratingly complex masterpiece Finnegans Wake (1939)
How to quit alcohol, caffeine, ice cream, ugh, might as well quit breathing.
ReplyDeletexoxoxoBruce
I wouldn't want to quit all three at once.
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