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“I knew I had to get out of there so I could do better work and more of it. And so that I could look at the work more intensely.”
Quietus interview, “Out of time: Leyland James Kirby and the death of a caretaker”
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Allsorts, March 2017
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repeat these instructions until the project is complete
finish the project, scrap all of it.
finish the project, scrap half of it.
finish the project, scrap a third of it.
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Musarc’s going to be at Palais de Tokyo in April. Info/tickets
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Shop Talk ep. 250, Web security with April King and Alex Sexton
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Itty bitty tangerine
Kiwi for scale
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“This is not my fault. I did not build the bomb. I only showed that it exists.”
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Bromeliad advice from the Glasgow Botanic Gardens
Bromeliads can be propagated from seed which should be sown onto wet finely chopped sphagnum moss. Surface sow with no covering as seeds need light to germinate. Pots can be covered with cling-film. Germination usually occurs within 2–3 weeks at 22–24°C.
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Do you sometimes get the feeling you’re being watched?
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Link to sweet potato pie recipe
Sweet Potato Pie recipe from Joy the Baker
It’s hard to find the right ingredients for pumpkin pie in the UK. This has much the same effect looks- and taste-wise; I actually prefer it.
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New water feature
The heater in the studio failed pretty spectacularly on Friday, damage TBD. Kind of scary that it was so hard to get out…
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Grandma Piper’s Sugar Cookies
The best & easy
Bake @ 375°F (190°C) 8 min
Cream:
- 1 c (226 g) butter
- 1 c (200 g) granulated sugar
Beat in:
- 1 egg
- ½ t vanilla
Add:
- ½ t baking powder
- 1 c (120 g) wheat flour
- 1 ½ c (188 g) white flour
Use 3 trays. Make a fat rope. Pinch off pieces on to trays. Flatten each 3x by dipping ⅓c measure into sugar in ½c measure. Cool cookies on newspaper.
The recipe above was written by hand in to a community cookbook she gave me in 2001. It retains her original wording and formatting, though I have added gram and Celsius conversions.
We miss you so much.
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“I’ve been hurt. Do you know what that means?”
“Weird Nightmare: A Tribute to Charles Mingus” is a documentary by Ray Davies. View on YouTube in 8 parts