[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdpei]

• blogTO notes laneway crawls in Toronto and notes a vacant lot in Leslieville is set to become a community market.
• The Dragon's Tales looks at atmospheric nitrogen on Earth and Venus.
• Joe. My. God. confirms Prince's death as a consequence of an opioid overdose.
• The LRB Blog notes the importance of Felix the Cat in television broadcasting.
• The Map Room

Comments

[mmcirvin]

I got sad at the reports that jellyfish were taking over the oceans, because jellyfish are no good to eat. But cephalopods? Some cephalopods are delicious.

[robby]

Such a huge chasm between Prince's public personna and his private reality. I guess he was a long term junkie after all. Died alone in an elevator of a drug overdose.

[mmcirvin]

Or, he was trying to manage chronic pain or serious illness. There's still a lot we don't know.

[robby]

I'm formulating a theory that the weird construct we put together by gathering "facts" from the media, is almost totally wrong. Much like the lowly mushroom, we are kept in the dark, and fed bullshit.