schedule f: Trump and the Heritage Foundation’s plan to dismantle the administrative state, replacing federal workers with sycophants—via Miss Cellania
chinoiserie: a grand tour of Rococo era architectural follies as homage and aspiration to Eastern aesthetics—see also
disco demolition night: more on the publicity stunt that incited a riot and brought down a whole genre of music
agrostology: of grasses and lawns
we’re safety now, haven’t we: US federal consumer safety commission drops an album that includes some bangers—but hardly for the first
time swing time for hitler: new audio book by Scott Simon explores how Nazis banned jazz as degenerate art and repurposed it to dispirit the Allies—with more on Lord Haw-Haw and other propagandists
synchronoptica
one year ago: MERS-CoV (2012), the premier of West Wing (1999), Putin addresses the public and announces a draft plus an early Hobbit computer game
two years ago: assorted links to revisit plus Fiddler on the Roof (1964)
three years ago: Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies in state, the last day of summer, more links to enjoy plus dazzling skylines made of dot-stickers
four years ago: exploring the Messel Pit plus a highly idiosyncratic language
five years ago: rehabilitating coral ecosystems with electricity, an AI makes college course catalogues, typhoon naming conventions plus an M-class exoplanet
