estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
These gigantic odes to culinary delights are much more than cliche roadside attractions; they are also works of art that have stood the test of time. https://www.atlasobscura.com/lists/roadside-food-attractions
"Austin, along with Matthew Barr, a professor at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, are collaborating on an oral history and book project titled 'The Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement.'" https://news.asu.edu/20220802-discoveries-unsung-heroes-civil-rights-movement-tell-their-stories
Need a little inspiration for your cheese board? This cookbook'll do it.
_Easy Cheese Boards: Arrangements, Recipes, and Pairings for Any Occasion_ is not any sort of WOW but if I was looking for an inexpensive housewarming gift, it'd be a great choice.
There was a large brown envelope inside the gift bag and a card that read, “Librarian. Happy Easter. X.” Believing it to be a present for her boss, the assistant took the package to Gardner’s office. A little while later, she checked the parcel again and realized it was something else entirely. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/darwins-lost-treasure-found
Colossal has plans to resurrect the mammoth, and now it's revealed the second species on its de-extinction list – Australia’s lost thylacine. Partnering with a University of Melbourne lab, the project could revive the creature in about a decade. https://www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2022/august/lab-takes-giant-leap-toward-thylacine-de-extinction-with-colossal-genetic-engineering-technology-partnership2
"Thomas Dewey, candidate for US president in 1944 and 1948, constantly fended off criticism of his moustache, and no candidate for high office had dared facial hair since then." (2013 so some of the images are gone) https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23693316
Now destined for a comeback on the storied Paris-Istanbul route, the 17 carriages discovered in Poland are being restored in France and will hit the railways in time for the 2024 Paris Olympics. https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/bus-train/original-orient-express-returns-to-europe-2024
HireGoats.com is a directory of all goat rental companies in the world. In case you want to rent one. https://hiregoats.com/
"They’re what happens when house flippers and landlords run roughshod over the housing market.... All told, nearly a third of American house sales last year went to people who had no intention of living in them." https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/08/hgtv-flipping-houses-cheap-redesign/671187/
Perhaps you learned the hard way. Perhaps in the past, you noticed something that didn’t sit right, you saw the red flag fluttering in the distance, but you ignored your intuition and thought, “meh, it won’t be that bad.” https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/client-red-flags-creative-industry-180722
'The program changed hands several times, intersected with and borrowed from other pieces of software, and created a complicated pathway that created several output files that could all be called “WordStar” files.' https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2022/07/wow-its-wordstar-exploring-a-beloved-early-word-processor-and-its-many-formats/
"I told the police to please just pass along this message: ‘Dude, you don’t want to be the one that kills Willie Nelson. Especially in Texas.’”
This is a great article. Funny, thoughtful, poignant. Recommended.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/magazine/willie-nelson.html
"A total of 186 million books have been mailed out since Parton launched the program in 1995." https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2022/08/10/dolly-parton-imagination-library-columbus
If the make-out potential of a canoe date wasn’t clear enough, accompanying advertisements for no less than 10 different chocolate companies drove the point home.
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/love-boats-the-delightfully-sinful-history-of-canoes/
Other technology influences — the telephone, the automobile, the internet — took decades before they were in use everywhere. But photography enjoyed nearly instant acceptance. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2022/08/5-unintended-consequences-of-photography/
“I thought that the drinking and the drug use were enabling my creativity … We have a mythology that tells us artists should be drunk and in pain.”
Disruptions to food supply chains in Mexico City during the pandemic resulted in a revival of Aztec-era island farms known as 'chinampas.' The shallow lake farms produce beans, corn, squashes, and greens, and when lockdowns stopped produce flows to the city, customers reconnected with local chinamperos, rebooting a 1,300 year-old agricultural legacy. https://archive.ph/Wm7OB
"You know what will happen in any strip of Krazy Kat—the same sequence reoccurs eternally—but somehow there is still room for unexpected delight." This is far deeper than I expected. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/07/20/e-e-cummings-and-krazy-kat/
The concept is simple. You sit in silence for a set period of time taking notice of the sounds you hear and where you hear them. https://modernfarmer.com/2022/08/sound-mapping/
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017