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posts from 2023 / 05

  1. my plan for when I finally ghost on everyone is to still be self aware enough to not gotta give people thirty to fifty years younger than me one last spoonful of pablum they didn’t ask for on my way out the door 😉 😉 😉

  2. joked to myself the other day “wow it must have been windy last night" as I passed the flattened flex-post on east-bound 17th at Gus’s, but it’s been that way since at least January.

    this is what passes for a compromise on the city’s bike network map ( https://www.sfmta.com/maps/san-francisco-bike-network-map)

    this morning I watched someone slowly drive over it, front left wheel, back left wheel, to park, 🙃

    google maps photo of the corner, from January 2023, the flex post is already flattened in this picture

    screenshot of the linked bike map from the castro to potrero

  3. finally made it to salesforce park today with junior. incredibly rad the that we as a society have somehow made one, single, incredibly nice (mid) multi-story boondoggle bus stop instead of improving every other bus stop even slightly, like it’s almost, as if the author, were trying to, very clumsily, make a point, about, nah, no, couldn’t be, that would mean that, wow, no way

  4. “Hi, do you work here?”

    “No. Does it look like I work here?”

    “Yeah, kinda.”

    “Fuck!”

    selfie, me, the vibe every time i wear khakis, going back to 2007 or so

  5. https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=62529

    The victim has been flung into the arena. The lions are ready. The game is about to begin. Let us give our hero a little row of dots.• • • • • • God knows he needs them.

  6. is that the annoying over-40 poster?

    [I start complaining about stupid motorcycles and car alarms to nobody in particular]

    yep

  7. thanks car-London, for telling the [adrian belew voice] ”this is a dangerous place!" story to everybody in ear shot, threatening to get the cops involved but not actually usefully getting anyone involved at all, just being annoying to everyone around, and useless, to boot

  8. really enjoying Alice Munro stories, more than I expected, and a little bummed that I don’t remember who suggested them.

    I started with the '68–’94 collection, “A Wilderness Station”, great stuff so far!

    obnoxious photo-of-the-book-text, but with easy copy paste alt text, yay:Before she came to Dr. Henshawe's, Rose had never heard of the working class. She took the designation home."This would have to be the last part of town where they put the sewers," Flo said."Of course," Rose said coolly. "This is the working-class part of town.""Working class?" said Flo. "Not if the ones around here can help it."🤣🤣🤣

    the cover of my paperback, a watercolor in grays, of the author

  9. gravely started reading A Wilderness Station

    Cover of A Wilderness Station

  10. I haven’t gotten covid yet because of my positive mental attitude, which you can tell I have because I’m cracking trying to say this with a straight face

  11. As a fun thought experiment, every time I hear a car alarm going off in the city, I think to myself: Wow, our great Mayor, London Breed, who is a car, must really love San Francisco. There she is, living her best life, occupying a parking spot, honking her horn with devotion.

    Honk! Honk! Honk!

    So inspiring! 🤗🌁

  12. michael moritz is immune to spoonerism and thus an unstoppable foe

    look

    “michael moritz”

    see? doesn’t work

    christ, what an asshole

  13. I’ve only ever read one other collection of stories that was so well assembled I chased the editor before the various authors therein and that was Otto Penzler.

    So, if Black Water looks fun to you (it was for me!), I also recommend Penzler’s collections: “The Best American Mystery Stories of the Twentieth Century”, “The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century”, and “The Best American Noir of the Century” ( https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/12471.Otto_Penzler?utf8=✓&sort=popularity)

  14. twelfth book of '23 for me, "Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature” ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53080.Black_Water I started a Bookwyrm and posted there too but, alas no one there has reviewed it yet), edited by Alberto Manguel. 72 fantastic stories in a door stop of a paper back (at least that’s how I read it), each one with a contextual introduction, and organized into themes.

    I’m now looking forward to starting the second one Manguel collected, Black Water 2.

    Previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109372394967950916

    paperback cover of Black Water, the title in black over an illustration of three people in blue, green, and red tunics decreasingly obscured in waht look like doorways in a subway, part of a larger painting https://whitney.org/collection/works/3052

    The Subway is the best known of the figurative paintings George Tooker made in response to the social injustices and isolation of postwar urban society—paintings that find an analogue in the period’s existentialist philosophy. In The Subway, Tooker employed multiple vanishing points and sophisticated modeling to create an imagined world that is presented in a familiar urban setting. Whether closed off in tiled niches or walking down the long passageway, each androgynous, anxiety-ridden figure appears psychologically estranged, despite being physically close to others in the station. The central group of commuters is locked in a grid of the metal grating’s cast shadows, while the labyrinthine passages seem to lead nowhere, suspending the city’s inhabitants in a modern purgatory. As Tooker remarked, he chose the subway as the setting for this painting because it represented “a denial of the senses and a negation of life itself.” (https://whitney.org/collection/works/3052)

  15. gravely finished reading Black Water

    Cover of Black Water

  16. on the home stretch (about a dozen stories or 200 pages left) and then I added “Black Water 2” to the to-read pile

    One of the fun things about the older stories is that when you like them you can just find and share them:

    THE GREY ONES

    (1953)

    J. B. PRIESTLEY

    https://ia904606.us.archive.org/31/items/michael-collins-piper-on-the-grey-ones-by-j.-b.-priestley/The%20Grey%20Ones%20-%20JB%20Priestley.pdf

  17. “Little Lebowski Thirsty Strivers”

  18. friday night is pizza night for junior (and I) and I’ve pretty much got his favorite NY style pepperoni dialed in now, this was perfect

    ooni koda gas pizza oven just after launching the pizza into its, about a 15" NY style with pepperoni

    the pizza top down on a cutting board after about a three minute bake

    i took the three most burned pieces, topped with pecorino, chili oil, red pepper flakes, and oregano

    ECU pepperoni cups with pecorino, oregano, and red pepper flakes

  19. gravely finished reading Axiomatic

    Cover of Axiomatic

  20. gravely finished reading If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe

    Cover of If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe

  21. gravely finished reading Stories of Your Life and Others

    Cover of Stories of Your Life and Others

  22. gravely finished reading Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki

    Cover of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki

  23. gravely finished reading Kitchen Confidential

    Cover of Kitchen Confidential

  24. gravely finished reading Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories: A Library of America Boxed Set

    Cover of Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories: A Library of America Boxed Set

  25. gravely finished reading Good Strategy Bad Strategy

    Cover of Good Strategy Bad Strategy

  26. gravely finished reading The museum of eterna’s novel

    Cover of The museum of eterna's novel

  27. gravely finished reading Novel Explosives

    Cover of Novel Explosives

  28. gravely finished reading Destroyer of Worlds

    Cover of Destroyer of Worlds

  29. gravely finished reading Sea of Tranquility

    Cover of Sea of Tranquility

  30. https://techbrosf.weebly.com/fentalife.html that’s numberwang!

  31. the flowers my wife gave me for our wedding anniversary has ranunculus in it and 1. cool, never noticed this kind of flower before 2. what a fun name to say

    ranunculus!

    phone screen shot of ddg image results for "ranunculus", results in yellow, burgundy, pink, all of these, other pinks, fuscia, etcit's a cool round flower with a high petal count all packed together

  32. eleventh book, Emily St. John Mandel’s "Sea of Tranquility” ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45754981-the-glass-hotel)

    More of a novella really, and while I have a pithy “oh it’s like this” comparison I’ll resist sharing the spoiler. I will say that I wish I’d read her previous book, “The Glass Hotel” first because they seem to share characters.

    Anyway, yeah, “Station 11” author, if you liked that you’ll like this.

    “Sea of Tranquility” cover, the moon rising over rolling green hills in the foreground, a forest in the background.

  33. looks like the everloving wife has taken to tagging the neighborhood

    orange lettered (poorly, just block letters) graffiti over a beige alley garage door "FUCK SNORE"

  34. living in the future, record scratch

  35. … my knee-jerk to lots of stuff, but this morning to delivery app restaurant fee cap expirations

  36. hey this guy that gets to tell us what to do because he has $500,000,000 and we don’t would like us to commute out to another company’s office which used to be in the city but isn’t anymore because ugh, city taxes

    he’s giving a fake interview because he thought of new things to tell us to do now that our shared presence isn’t a potential death sentence. we’re calling it a fireside chat!

    all the gang is gonna be there, even a magazine called “Fortune" which is definitely for “us” 😉 😉

  37. “‘Sun of the wolves’, a metaphor for the moon”, delicious.

    one of those annoying photographs of of the book the poster is reading, in this case another story in Black Water.this is a fragment of the introduction to "Clorinda", by André Pieyre de Mandiargues. the text doesn't matter so much as the post content, which is highlighted in yellow in the photo

  38. the a.i.'s are going to both create the designer drugs seen in pkd novels we will all get addicted to and power the argumentative doors that demand micropayments to navigate our own crummy conapts seen in pkd novels

  39. casting call for generic extra at pre-school drop off

    full length mirror selfie, white vans, blue jeans, red zip hoodie, black t-shirt, black bell cap, white to-go coffee

  40. i’ve got a saved search on ebay for levis cords in my size - works great, already snagged a pair in an out-of-production color that i’m wearing in one of my pinned posts

    anyway, today’s hit is fun for two reasons: 1) I’ve never seen this red pointer before and love it, 2) it looks like someone blew the back out of these things?

    I’m gonna pass on them

    ECU photograph from an ebay listing of the bottom of the back right pocket of a pair of gray levis corduroy pants the photographer has used what looks like a tiny baby-sized red gloved hand (made of plastic) on a red stick with a white styrofoam cuff (?) to indicate where the pants took some damage to the butt and were repaired

    ECU photograph from an ebay listing of the back right pocket and waist and leather label-belt-loop of a pair of gray levis corduroy pants the photographer has used what looks like a tiny baby-sized red gloved hand (made of plastic) on a red stick with a white styrofoam cuff (?) to indicate where the pants were repaired