Please Pardon My Previous Ignorance, 2012 edition
Each year, I make a playlist of old music that was new to me in the previous year. Here’s what I discovered in 2012: Open this playlist in Spotify: PPMPI2012 Kids | MGMT I Should Be Proud | Martha Reeves & The Vandellas What You Want | Mase (w/ Total) Coolidge Rising | Leo Kottke ...
I Guarantee You’ll Find Something New to Like, 2012 edition
Open this playlist in Spotify: IGYFSNTL2012 Do My Thing | Estelle (w/ Janelle Monáe) Home Again | Michael Kiwanuka Don’t Cage This Heart | Tyler Barham Thrift Shop | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (w/ Wanz) All the Rowboats | Regina Spektor Sweet Life | Frank Ocean Birmingham | Shovels & Rope King & Queens | ...
twitter redemption
So, I (and my husband and both of our daughters) have a lot of followers of twitter who seem to have found us by searching for “zimbabwe,” and without much interest in a family in DC. Examples of such followers: @zambezimedical @darirozw @resurrectZim I’ve long felt bad about these followers, as they are probably misled ...
berkeley project wins award
Many congrats to Noé Noyola (a colleague and friend back from our days at Urban Ecology) and the ever-talented Professor Karen Chapple, who oversaw a student report [PDF] on leveraging the regional economic impact of the planned construction of a second campus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). I just learned that the California Northern ...
the Chicago Mayors Project
These guys have a great sense of humor and an uncannily accurate way to paint the last 13 mayors of Chicago in quick, humorous pen strokes. I bought the $50 limited edition poster. Order your own or you’ll have to come to my office to see it.
build a beautiful stool
I wish I had the time and money to travel up to Maine to attend one of these workshops and make a beautiful stool. Actually, I prefer the rolling version, which doesn’t seem like what you make in the workshop. Anyways, they’re great.
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