October Cornucopia

Well, the last day of October is of course Halloween...so Boo!👻 To!🎃 You!🧡 Here's a cornucopia post of all the various things I read, watched, listened to, learned from or enjoyed this month. 

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I bought this fundraiser compilation (136 songs!) Cardinals At The Window, raising money for flood relief for Western North Carolina. It is really really good. And I also got this new compilation from Noise For Now, called Songs For Sex, supporting the National Women's Health Network. I wasn't sure what to expect given the title, but it was a lot of really great music by artists I already liked and new ones too.

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Join in on November 2nd for International Scrap Sorting Day.

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More music, another Tiny Desk Concert, this time with saxophonist, Kamasi Washington and a great back up band including his father on flute and soprano saxophone, just amazing. Do yourself a favor and listen to this one.

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This is called the best meatball recipe, which of course YMMV, but I thought that they were awesome, and I had never thought of using ricotta instead of milk!

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Podcasts I've enjoyed this month: 

SlowBurn: The Rise of Fox News - super interesting, especially if you've never watched Fox that much

Organized Money - on how business really works, I really like the one on grocery store chains

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Material Girls has been doing a year-long 3 Yard SewALong, releasing a pattern a month for free that uses 3 yards of fabric. This month's pattern, Uniform is really great and is still available through the end of today 10/31/24. Then it's for sale on their website. But there's two more months to look forward to this year if you miss that one.

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Another cool innovation with EQ8 partnering with Accuquilt, a new add-on to the EQ8 software. This looks pretty useful for block making.

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Shake The Muse is a really interesting generative art prompter.

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Make some 12.5" blocks for Wrap The World In Quilts, Sunflower Quilt for Ukraine project.

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Some short and sweet and great encouragement from Ira Glass on The Gap.

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A very beautiful and moving essay about all things, Grilled Cheese Sandwiches.

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