Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
essay: COVID Lemonade (A Tiny Apt.). Solo Covid time! “It wasn’t Rome or Lily Dale, but I did eat an ice cream cone in bed.” [Because we had been away for a few days last week, though rarely inside with others and when so always masked, I did a Covid rapid test today before my poetry group met in person and, yay, negative! Average age of the others present today, besides me: 87 years.]
music: Sample Breakdown: The Most Iconic Hip-Hop Sample of Every Year (1973-2023) (YouTube, 29-min audio). I’m never going to not love “Rapper’s Delight.” (But, what, Bruce Hornsby’s sampled “The Way It Is?” is hop-hop? ). No doubt contains some bad words.
essay(s): The fallacy of alone time – #98 The myth, the miracle. (Kelton Wright/Shangrilogs). When people say ‘just drink the champagne’ I think of moments, or pileups of moments, like these. There hasn’t been a single morning in the week I’ve been home alone that hasn’t started with cat spray, dog piss, someone’s vomit, or a dead animal.” And three more short essays, including “The Milky Way.”
images: Junkama Illustrates a Nostalgic Vision of the Present (The Fox is Black). Kyoto-based illustrator Junkama, aka Jun Kumaori, creates “pixel drawings of photos from a digital camera from the 90s.”
essay in comics: I Did A Plank Every Day for 120 Days: Here’s What Happened (Brendan Leonard/Outside).
photo essay: Bienvenidos a Chihuahua! (Botanica Chaotica). Overview in photos of July 2023 visit to the largest state in Mexico, Chihuahua, which shares a border with New Mexico and Texas. Future posts planned on gardens and plants in the state.
