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The First Day of Spring (Risshun), from the series Fashionable Poetic Immortals of the Four Seasons (c.1768) by Suzuki Harunobu<\/a>. Risshun in Japan begins on the 4th of February<\/a>. \u2022 “…after centuries of imbibing alcoholic beverages as their main source of potable water, European\u2019s new fondness for boiled drinks\u2014coupled with the psychoactive properties of caffeine\u2014swapped societal tipsiness with a mindstate primed for the Enlightenment\u2019s intoxication with reason.” Hunter Dukes on A Treatise Concerning the Properties and Effects of Coffee<\/em><\/a> (1792) by Benjamin Moseley.<\/p>\n \u2022 Steven Heller on John Wilcock, Master of the Underground<\/a>: “[He] was one of the great ‘happening’ characters of midcentury America, beat myth to Hippie legend. He was founder of half a dozen underground papers, and started one of the first citizen-access cable television shows. His achievements are a dense package.”<\/p>\n \u2022 At Fonts In Use: Florian Hardwig explores the origin of \u201cthe Dune<\/em> font<\/a>\u201d as used on the covers of Frank Herbert’s novels during the 1970s and 80s.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Smithsonian Magazine: “Hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright<\/a>\u2019s designs were never built. Here’s what they might have looked like.”<\/p>\n \u2022 Mix of the week: Fact Mix 893<\/a> by KMRU & Aho Ssan & Sevi Iko D\u00f8mochevsky.<\/p>\n \u2022 New music: Hypnagogia<\/em><\/a> by Martina Bertoni, and Cosmos Vol. II<\/em><\/a> by Ran Kirlian & Jaja.<\/p>\n \u2022 “Forgotten \u2018Stonehenge of the north\u2019<\/a> given to nation by construction firm.”<\/p>\n \u2022 At Aquarium Drunkard: Soft Machine<\/a> live at Jazz Bilzen, 1969.<\/p>\n \u2022 RIP Tom Verlaine<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Goofin’ At The Coffee House<\/em><\/a> (1959) by Henri Mancini | Bring Me Coffee Or Tea<\/em><\/a> (1971) by Can | Starfish And Coffee<\/em><\/a> (1986) by Prince<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The First Day of Spring (Risshun), from the series Fashionable Poetic Immortals of the Four Seasons (c.1768) by Suzuki Harunobu. Risshun in Japan begins on the 4th of February. \u2022 “…after centuries of imbibing alcoholic beverages as their main source of potable water, European\u2019s new fondness for boiled drinks\u2014coupled with the psychoactive properties of caffeine\u2014swapped … Continue reading “Weekend links 659”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Weekend links 659","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,42,4,851,29,43,3,20,10],"tags":[12209,12646,2271,12647,2464,12653,11998,12651,12208,12649,7354,12650,12648,2906,1536,12645,12652],"class_list":["post-22441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-drugs","category-electronica","category-magazines","category-music","category-science-fiction","category-typography","tag-aho-ssan","tag-benjamin-moseley","tag-can-group","tag-florian-hardwig","tag-frank-lloyd-wright","tag-henri-mancini","tag-hunter-dukes","tag-jaja","tag-kmru","tag-martina-bertoni","tag-prince-musician","tag-ran-kirlian","tag-sevi-iko-domochevsky","tag-soft-machine-group","tag-steven-heller","tag-suzuki-harunobu","tag-tom-verlaine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5PX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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