March 7, 2026

Five for Friday 723

Welcome to Friday,

Here are five things I thought worth sharing this week.

Meet the rebel florists taking on Big Flower.

Ted Gioia puts to words something we’ve all been experiencing; we now live in the age of the Annoyance Economy.

Both the Hebrew Talmud and Islamic Quran restrict eating pork. Where did this originate? Archeology Magazine searches for the origins of the pork taboo.

Tracing the Incredible Rise and Fall of the uniquely American phenomenon, the Infomercial King.

What does vinyl ask of us?

Currently reading: The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf


Photo by Anton Polidovets on Unsplash