Jeremy Cherfas

Slightly puzzled by Epilogue for MB for those of us who do not have a paid account. Does it feed my timeline, eventually? If it does, I might consider PESOS rather than indiebookclub and POSSE. Also, two way traffic, to open someone’s link in MB would encourage conversation.

Finished reading: Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert MacFarlane, ISBN: 9780393358094

Currently reading: Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden, ISBN: 9780143037071

George Monbiot illuminates and infuriates in equal measure, although I suspect, after reading Chris Smaje’s review, that I will not be paying much attention in future. I have not read Regenesis, so will say nothing about it myself. Two quotes from Chris (of many others I could have chosen):“[A]n alternative, perhaps counterintuitive but more plausible argument [is] that low food prices in fact are a fundamental cause of global poverty.”“[T]here’s no such thing as ‘an inexorable economic logic’, there are just political games with winners and losers – a point the old George Monbiot once understood.”Yup.

“You begin the book a sober reader, calmly appreciating the complexity of historical causation, and you finish it a raving wheat monomaniac.”

Glad to know I am not alone. Fine review of @nelsonhist’s book in the NYRB

www.nybooks.com/articles/…

Interesting account of a single piece of civil disobedience and its aftermath.

Thank YOU @nelsonhist for doing the work and being happy to talk about it. Today, Grain and Empire closes the trilogy, leaving a lot still unsaid. Oceans of Grain is a terrific read that sheds light on so many disparate topics, all connected by wheat.

Splendid piece by a splendid broadcaster. Only one thing to push back against:Music helps. Sound beds help. Clear simple writing helps.Clear writing, obviously. But music and sound beds? This is much more culturally determined, in my view, and I don’t know how best to cope with it.

I see Jason using what looks like the AT 875 short shotgun mic as his desktop mic, possibly for podcasting and conferencing, and wonder how that compares to a less directional mic like my Electrovoice R50.