Busy pruning and putting down diatomaceous earth for spring gardening while checking into indy musicians. Got into a fairly interesting discussion on Australia and paper routes still being popular there around our local NC State Technician school newspaper. For anyone not might not know, the Technician is a niche newspaper for young college professionals that punches above its weight. In the newspapers vs. magazine debate, college students prefer newspapers as they can be recycled in moving boxes and it’s something to keep in mind for advertising purposes. Not saying one or the other is better, but newspapers seem to have a longer shelf life with the younger generation. Another popular newspaper is the weekly African-American Raleigh newspaper, Carolina Tribune, which...
Let’s discuss something fun based on friend’s kids in high school who are looking forward to the future: AI jobs and technology. RFK JR is the single biggest financial gift to US agriculture, ai, and space technology to jump forward since the 90s when the internet started. This is a bit of a sci-fi/technology rabbit hole, but several gardening friends have pointed out that most Gen X and younger have played Farmville on Facebook and someone with a health interest for profit could redesign it in the real world as space garden beds 2’x4’, 3’x5’, and 4’x6’. Maybe also do a table top or window version. Instant flower beds are a pretty low tech way for new gardeners and have...
This week we had a snow and ice storm which means lots of hard ground so no shoveling wheelbarrows full of mulch on the weekend for a change which is nice. Our next door neighbor has been back and forth on fixing the side fence since managed to rip out the poison ivy in our drive way along with all the random brush. Hopefully it will get done by February. Last summer and fall redid the front and sides of our property with “regenerative horticulture” which is a fancy way of saying putting 6-8 inches layer of mulch, then add fertilizer, and wait 2-3 months to put in your favorite plants. So much shoveling of mulch. According to the Amish,...
Starting off 2025, we’re coming off the holiday season with family and friends, definitely got some Art Bell’s Coast to Coast and X-Files vibes for weird podcasting being something interesting for high schoolers. It’s nice to see a classic from your childhood reinvented for modern audiences. Last year we got to pick up the Why Files and circling back this year, wow…that show has grown in all the best ways to over 4 million subscribers from a few thousand. Good job. People talk about Joe Rogan, but the smaller ones out of the Southeast around Nashville, TN are more fun and push the limits: Blurry Creatures, The Confessionals, Ninjas are Butterflies, and Deep Waters are a few to get you...
After an empty scifi, futuristic, and fantasy slate for fall 2024, we’re seeing the spring 2025 trailers and it looks promising. Given not having scifi let me take up gardening, which resulted in losing 50-60 lbs over the past 6 months, but maybe we can do a mix of more active stuff with the media entertainment as the industry comes back from life support. The largest trend in Cary seems to be gardening fancy tropical plants mixed with English boxwoods. Might simply be a clever marketing campaign by nurseries to cash in since both can be pretty pricey, but hey. There are worse things than ad campaigns intended to make your neighborhood more beautiful. The best trailers are the indy...
