Zachary K. Thompson

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Teacher, midwesterner, typewriter-enthusiast
title: Harvesting a Profitable Crop of Onions in Iowa
artist: W. H. Martin, born 1865-died 1940
source: Smithsonian American Art Museum
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https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=71746
Harvesting a Profitable Crop of Onions in Iowa

Smithsonian American Art Museum
Let’s Get Quizzical Didn’t Have all the Answers

Last year, I read Kelly Ohlert’s debut and felt that it had a lot of potential, even if it ultimately fell flat for me. So when I saw her next book, Let’s Get Quizzical, I was excited t…

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Cannabis could be eaten as a vegetable in antiquity.

But not a very appetising one. In Palatine Anthology 11.325, the poet Automedon compares it to cabbage that has gone yellow with age:

Yesterday I dined on a goat’s foot, and a ten-day-old
quince-coloured cabbage stalk, like cannabis.
I won't name the one who invited me. He’s grouchy,
and I’m scared he might invite me back again.

@TeamMidwest Do you want a list? https://boxd.it/1S21I And filter for “2000s/Any”. Some great ones on there. “13 Going on 30” (2004) and “The Holiday” (2006) are enjoyable. “Legally Blonde” (2001) probably the best film on this list.
Romantic Comedies

My favourite guilty pleasure. Here is a list of some popular ones, watch them all if you like you some romcoms!

@i_write_things Someday Threads and BluSky will link through the fediverse and we’ll have just one decentralized social media network. 🤞

About 109 billion people have lived & died. Each grain of sand represents 10 million.

This stunning data visualization of human life by Max Roser was published in 2022.

Today there would be 805 green grains representing 8.05 billion people living on Earth. #science #art

We’ve recently also gotten into local government! Attending our first city council meeting Thursday.
I read an NYT article this morning detailing plans to replace Madison Square Garden. Madison Square Garden replaced the iconic Pennsylvania Station in the mid 1960s. In 1962, when the man who engineered that replacement met criticism, he quipped "Fifty years from now, when its time for [the new Madison Square Garden] to be torn down, there will be a new group of architects who will protest." Well, they aren't. Instead, greedy landowners are fighting to keep their arena a decade past expiration.