Welcome to the Miscellaneous Materials Reading Club MM025 (Season 3 issue 5)

Current daily average CO2 PPM: October 28 : 413.75 ppm

This Twenty fifth collection of Miscellaneous Materials was actually collected back in June of 2021. I keep thinking I'm going to catch up... but I can never seem to get to this faster than once per month. Maybe next time you'll get the super holiday season bonus and just get 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30 all in one go!? There are a couple of extra links to some things in the are.na channel — but the dropbox links in this email contain PDFs you can immediately download and peruse.  

This collection contains an Oxfam report on how the 1% suck, an old lewis carroll story about the tortoise and achilles, cards to identify common Maryland area invasive plants, Square trying to convince you that bitcoin is actually good for renewable energy, not just a crazy power drain; and a couple other things. This collection is a bit smaller than the last few... as I'm still behind sending them, I cannot for the life of me recall what I might have been looking for or working on when I came across these bits and pieces. 

Sidenote: I've been having a hard time getting things done lately. Part of the reason is that I recently signed up for Apple Music after years of thinking it wasn't that useful or great to have a streaming music service. Woah. Totally wrong. There is soooooo much stuff to listen to that I thought I'd never hear … All these albums that I found nearly impossible to find as their original vinyl and that didn't see a repressing as a CD, or were just so limited in their release if you weren't buying albums when they came out, they just weren't really that findable, and then — poof — they now just appear in Apple Music with a search.

So, things I've been listening too I knew about but never really could easily find in the past:
- A Capella, by Todd Rundgren (1985)
- In My Own Time, by Karen Dalton (1971); side anecdote I was listening to this and my wife says, wait, who did you say this was? I say, Karen Dalton, and she says, I think there is a recent documentary about her I just heard about!? Serendipity and coincidence are strange things. The documentary is also called "In My Own Time" — I have not yet seen it.
- Green, by Hiroshi Yoshimura (1987)
- Relatively Clean Rivers, by Relatively Clean Rivers (1975)

They're probably findable on Spotify too? Anyway, interesting stuff to at least give one listen through. Fun times for the ears.

Thanks. Get to reading (and listening!?), and as always, let me know what you found interesting. Have a great weekend, and have a spooky halloween if you are into that sort of thing. My 5 year old is going as an angler fish, he's pretty psyched with the costume we made together.

View MM025 as folder on Dropbox

or, Download a zip of Miscellaneous Materials 023 from dropbox!
And! Collected on Are.na too: https://www.are.na/kristian-bjornard/mm-mm025

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Kristian Bjornard
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