Links to live by. 

CALIFORNIA DREAMING
Ursula K. Leguin, A Non-Euclidean View of California As a Cold Place To Be
Joan Didion, Holy Water
The California couple that uses more water than the entire city of Los Angeles
Chinatown, the film, as Hollywood Baroque

ART BECAUSE LIFE
43 things I have learnt while working in an art museum
Why teach business to artists

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
Flat Earth truthers, omgawd
Some approaches to the question of chewing gum litter

GAMING
Play brand-new New York Subway

NATURAL WORLD
The duck penis, an existential quandary
Darwin’s kids doodled all over his Origin of Species manuscript
On the cultural lives of plants, i.e., exploring the intersection between science and mysticism in the evolution of organic chemistry, and other considerations

VIDEODROME
But why?
Stock video footage of squid
Birdyonce (listen with sound)
Rollie, a southern armadillo, playing
The haunting last birdsong of an extinct species
Reagan tells Soviet Jokes
Thanks, Obama
A secretary is not a toy

Image credit
(Pro-tip: Email subscribers, click title for gorgeous Faye Dunaway pic)