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Victory Gardens of Our Generation: Reclaiming the Right to Power
During the first two great World Wars, people were encouraged to start “Victory Gardens”. The victory garden served two purposes, keeping people busy (thus keeping morale up), and relieving pressure of large scale or public food supplies. It kept the people fed during times of rationing and undoubtedly saved the rationing governments of those people an awful lot of money.
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RKNet Poll: Matters of the Arcane
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I’ve had a passing interest with all things “occult” for quite some time. In more recent years I’ve taken the study much more seriously, cross referencing material with historical records of mythology and comparing rituals to modern psychology. I feel as though there is a lot to learn from the [...]
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Fiction
Teaching People to Fly.»Hot:
On top of a twelve mile tower of rock which grew from the plane of heaven to far above the clouds sat a man in a white plastic garden chair. He was an old man, and his hair had gone gray years ago. He was sitting watching the sun rise when the first visitor walked [...]
Film
Remake: The Sequel Returns Before It Begins»Hot:
Almost every movie this year has been a remake, a sequel, or an adaptation from a novel or comic book. Many like me find this to be a sad sight in the realm of films which is why many say that Hollywood hast lost it’s originality. In reality I think the reason why studios don’t [...]
Memes
Stupid Things On The Internet: CD Cover Meme»Hot:
Rather than requesting anyone be truly creative, this meme asks you to gather three things, throw them through an image editor, and guffaw heartily at how oddly realistic they seem. Allow me to demonstrate:
Kind of looks like something you’d find in the bargin bin, right? Well it is, in fact, a thrown together combination of [...]
Dream Log
Dream Log: A Chat with David Bowie»Hot:
Technically I had way more interesting dreams over the weekend, and there was much more to the dream from which this exceprt is from, but dreaming a conversation with David Bowie, however cursory, is fucking sweet and I felt I should share.
I was walking through a corridor and came through a door to a mostly [...]
Audio
Best You Should Have Heard: Fleet Foxes»Hot:
There’s so much to love about the Fleet Foxes, and at this point, so many people have said so many brilliant things about them it would be rather redundant to throw my commentary into it.
I should however like to note that they have a 6 song EP available – Sun Giant – for about [...]
Internet Toys
What Is Wrong With This Picture? Techcrunch Edition»Hot:
I get so immensely frustrated by the bullshit rodeos that spring up around certain concepts sometimes. However, to really take the time to dissect this nonsense in a meaningful fashion would end one of two ways:
Unending flaming from kool-aid drunken supporters of the individual whose ideas I am opposed to.
No actual rebuttal from the [...]
Literature
If Peanuts Were Written by Bukowski…»Hot:
It would probably read a lot like this feature over at Progressive Boink. It’s got poems, vignettes in the author’s style of the more well-known Peanuts characters, and original comics done up with dialogue in Bukowski’s style.
For more information about Henry Charles Bukowski, there is a list of 100 trivia items about the author available [...]
Nature
A is for… Mudkips?»Hot:
Ok, not really. My good friend Kento over at Uglorable has composed an AMAZING compendium of obscure animals – one for each letter of the alphabet – entitled: Obscure Animal Alphabet: Axolotl to Zebu.
For letter A is the Axolotl, which HAS to be the inspiration for that internet famous Pokémon, Mudkips.
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
Sure [...]
