Five Things This Week: Week 5, 2018

New name for this Friday feature. Trying to give it a fun look. We’ll see, I’ll probably change my mind by next week. Until then, here are Five Things I hope you find interesting, enlightening, or just quirky!

 

Outside Magazine
A plot of land dotted with historic structures and completely surrounded by national parks has been put up for sale by the family that’s held it for more than a hundred years. Poised between preservation and development, it exemplifies myriad land battles in the West, particularly this fairly Tony section of the West.
Atlas Obscura
This is right in my wheelhouse — forgotten cemeteries? check. Marginalized people pushed aside until history remembers them? check. Sad, but fascinating.
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Austin Kleon blog
This quote from the article says it best: “[…T]he best thing you can do as an artist or a creative person is pretend you’re Phil Connors in Groundhog Day: there’s no tomorrow, there’s no chance of success, there’s no chance of failure, there’s just the day, and what you can do with it.”
FourNPR Politics

NPR Politics Podcast

For the last year I’ve tried on a lot of different political podcasts. I started my odyssey with NPR Politics and its the one I keep coming back to. After the State of the Union speech this week, this was the podcast I most wanted to listen to and it was a salve. I’m not going to pretend they don’t have a bias, but they have far less bias than you might think. Give it a chance.


FiveThe Go! Team - Semi CircleThe Go Team – Semicircle
This is pure exuberance. When the six-piece band from the UK released Thunder, Lightning, Strike!  back in  2004 you’d be excused for thinking them a novelty with their cheerleader-chants and weird sounds with rock. Semicircle, now their fifth album, dropped last month, and they sound as fresh as ever. It’s music as potent as a good shot of caffeine.

Spotify: The Go! Team – Semicircle; iTunes: The Go! Team – Semicircle