Good Things Friday (245) and Link Love
November 3, 2023
1. I planted 3 new onion sprouts and 3 sweet potato sprouts. Fingers crossed that they all take!
2. The 6 first onions we planted just passed 60 days in the ground. I think they need another 30-40 days before we can attempt to harvest them. Sources suggest that we wait until the green tops turn yellow and fall over. Only the tips are yellow just now.
3. I alternate between feeling quite pleased with the current plants in the ground, feeling impatient for a harvest, and feeling like I should grow more things that we have no room for.
Challenges this week: What A Week.
I need about six days to recover but instead we have a busy weekend trying to get Comic Con tickets and then our friends’ kid’s big birthday on Sunday.
No wonder the holiday season always feels like such a slog.
Very pleased for Ursula Vernon, especially given Cancer-Bob this year: The Light At The End Of The Frog
Chains are using theft to mask other issues, report says
5 Photographs From The Day The World Said No To War. I didn’t know about these protests at all, I was in college and working every other hour of the day and completely unconnected to social media in 2003. I see a similar lack of reporting around the protests against the Israeli government’s actions against Palestinians.
Haunted Appalachia? These ancient mountains witnessed the birth of man and monster
A record 6.9 million people have been displaced in Congo’s growing conflict, the U.N. says
Sign From Above: In 2001, Richard Ankrom installed a fake freeway sign in downtown L.A. in order to fix a real problem for commuters. The sign is now long gone, but 20 years later, the stunt remains etched into the soul of the city. I drove by that sign a number of times without ever knowing the history. What a shame it’s gone now.
I am bemused that this made it into Rolling Stone and mildly irked by the headline implying Keith Lee caused the chaos, even accidentally: How a TikTok Food Critic Accidentally Caused Chaos in Atlanta’s Restaurant Scene. HE didn’t do anything wrong! The way people reacted to his stand-up behavior (not cutting in line, avoiding special treatment, tipping very generously) were the problem. I’ve seen his reviews pop up for the past couple of years. Every account of his behavior during the Atlanta leg sounded sensible to me. He appears as committed to honesty and transparency as someone who’s a semi public figure can be.
