Things I Like(d) - Issue #35: Subscriber-Suggested 🤔
This one's for— and in a way, from—you, my dear readers. I hope you enjoy the randomness of our collective interest! 🤔
Thanks to all who sent in their requests for content: searching the archives for stuff I think you'll enjoy was a blast. 🙏
Report Confirms No Need To Make New Chairs For The Time Being — www.theonion.com
Pulled straight from The Onion's "it's a joke but really it's not" file, this 2014 argument for the cessation of chair manufacturing is for KVL (on a few levels I expect).
"According to the report, chair production can cease entirely with no negative consequences for American consumers, as the many good chairs now on store shelves and available at garage sales are sufficient to satisfy the country’s seating requirements for the immediate future." Read more
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The case for normalizing Trump — www.vox.com
For Dan, here's one from 2016 on how policy matters more than personality when it comes to battling populism...
"Populists in office thrive on a circus-like atmosphere that casts the populist leader as persecuted by media and political elites who are obsessed with his uncouth behavior while he is busy doing the people’s work. To beat Trump, progressives will need to do as much as they can to get American politics out of reality show mode." Read more
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HOLY TRINITIES /// Minimalist Funk Arrangers (feat. Jack Stratton) — www.youtube.com
Hey Cory! There's nobody more awkward—or awesome—than Vulfpeck's Jack Stratton.
Exhibit A:
"This trinity keeps track-count low and transience tight / Sustain down / Kick drum, snare drum / Kick drum, snare drum / Dry / Let's go."
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Another for KVL—this one, yellow—from an unknown artist via @the_CDR back in '17.
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The Old English D Simplified by Jacob Rosenburg — dribbble.com
This simplified "D-for-Detroit" from the dawn of the last decade is for my place-based-logo loving buddy, Steve. Also available on a sweater!
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PDX Carpet - 99% Invisible — 99percentinvisible.org
This podcast from 2015 is for Gavin and any other fabric-lovers out there who know there's often more-than-meets-the-eye when it comes to the patterns beneath our feet.
"The design, I’m told, is based on the way the runways and lights look from the air traffic control tower and also on the radar screen that the air traffic controllers sees, with that sweeping line going around and around and the dots are the little blips representing airplanes." Listen here.
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Whale with harness could be Russian weapon, say Norwegian experts — amp.theguardian.com
We'll wrap things wiith this reporting from 2018...which should be just the right overlap between Alex's love for whales and "peculiar" stories.
"Marine experts in Norway believe they have stumbled upon a white whale that was trained by the Russian navy as part of a programme to use underwater mammals as a special ops force." Read more