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Live From California with Lloyd Kahn

Building, gardening, adventures, travel, people, surfing, skateboarding, fitness, aging, art, architecture, Baja, music, books, tiny homes, rolling homes, the natural world. Note: Click "No Thanks" to go directly to my Substack without subscribing.

Lloyd is one of a kind. Smart, resourceful, experienced, adventurous in his 80s. Amazing guy.

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Daniele’s Substack

By Daniele Bolelli

My personal Substack

Daniele's writing consistently reminds me that kindness is the highest form of wisdom.

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Barney's Rubble

By Vincenzo Barney

Literature, history and politics with a dash of Hitchens, a sprinkle of Vidal and a whole lot of rubble.

Heretics with Andrew Gold

What makes you a heretic? After being given the boot from legacy media, I finally have a place to write (and video) the truth, no matter how uncomfortable. From gender madness to Islamo-Leftism, nothing is beyond reproach.

Poetic Outlaws

A place for the outlaws of poetry and the written word.

Who needs poetry more than outlaws?

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Dirt Road Dispatch

By Anya Kaats

Musings, insights and interviews out of Crestone, CO. The end of the road is just the beginning...

Anya tells it how it is -- from the perspective of a 33 year-old woman trying to make her way in the ruins of late-stage capitalism.

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Evolving Love Project

By Abbey Mackay

Non-Monogamy, Motherhood, Polyamory, Sexuality & More...

Authentic, vulnerable, sexy.

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I Might Be Wrong

By Jeff Maurer

Comedy, politics, and swearing in pretty much equal amounts.

Sherman Alexie

poems, short fiction, essays, opinion, audio, video

Sherman is a wonderful writer, with a unique perspective.

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The Honest Broker

By Ted Gioia

A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia

Ted is an astute thinker and an elegant writer with a deep understanding of culture, music, economics, and pretty much everything else that matters.

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The Hipcrime Vocab

By Chad C. Mulligan

What's a hipcrime? You committed one when you browsed to this blog. Keep it up, it's our only hope!

Always insightful reflections on how things are and how they got that way.

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Kyle Thiermann

Conversations with intellectual athletes and athletic intellectuals.

Kyle's back! Smart, funny writing by a big wave surfer with a big brain and heart.

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The Weekly Dish

By Andrew Sullivan

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle," - Orwell

Andrew and Chris produce the most thought-provoking, amusing, enlightening newsletter I'm aware of. I agree with about 70% of Andrew's weekly essays, but learn something from every one of them.

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Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck

I explore subjects ranging from the mystical and psychedelic to the political and mundane.

Esoteric insights, wide-ranging, fluid writing.

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