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Pointing at quality rabbit holes since 2018

Jay Babcock
Apr 22, 2023
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1. SNAPPY ANSWER TO STUPID QUESTION (RIP AL JAFFEE)

"David Crosby comes up and he goes, Why the fuck would you want to name your band Butthole Surfers? And I said, Oh, I guess we should have called ourselves Haynes, Walthall, Pinkus, and Coffey. And he goes, Oh."

— Gibby Haynes in conversation with Wayne Coyne, 2015 (Pioneer Works)

2. GLIDING THE SHASTA ROUTE

My new favorite contemporary filmmaker: George Graham, cheerful 66-year-old freight train hopper. His videos are long meditative landscape glides — the opposite of tik-tok — with occasional commentary like “It's a beautiful fall day. I just can't say enough things about it." Can’t get enough of this dude!

3. “D.L.” FROM SOUTH CAROLINA REPORTS

from 2023 J.L. Hudson Seedsman catalog

4. HOURS OF ENTRANCEMENT AWAIT THE VIEWER

Via John Coulthart, this totally insane work-in-progress by a semi-anonymous Russian artist: "an ever-expanding animation scene showing the life of the 796th floor of the huge space station"

Zoomable and animated at floor796.com

5. BOW ALL THE WAY DOWN

6. COULD BE GOOD?

Going down Sept. 4-10, departing from Seattle. “Over our 7 days together we will have 3-4 morning lectures onboard from the Bigfoot researchers that will be traveling with us.” Info for interested seagoing Squatchologists here.

As always, comments, recommendations and recipes are welcome. Make them publicly at the link below, or send me a direct email — I always reply…eventually!

Thank you kindly,

Jay

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Zachary Kramer
Apr 29Liked by Jay Babcock

Glad to have Landline back in my life Jay!

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Brandon S
Apr 27Liked by Jay Babcock

Just nicked my Argyreia nervosa seeds this morning, and discovered ipomoea growing in yr landline! Good to hear from you Jay

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