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posts from 2023 / 07

  1. more like sunburn streets

  2. Ship of Calrisseus

    a coast guard ship named The Millennium Falcon near alameda

  3. municipal yachting

    photo, clear blue sky day, wake under the bay bridge looking back to the san francisco city skyline, from a ferry en route to alameda

  4. What if šŸ„ŗ we kissed šŸ˜³ at the šŸ™…šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø giant fenced in šŸ§© mystery field-of-mulch šŸ‚ in front of st lukes šŸ„ at the muni bus stop that šŸš buses only ever use to takešŸ„± breaks?

    to the left: a giant field of mulch where a parking lot might normally be in front of a hospital that wieners kept clearing and covering over again and again and seemed to have given up at "mulch"

    to the right: more of a giant field of mulch where a parking lot might normally be in front of a hospital that wieners kept clearing and covering over again and again and seemed to have given up at "mulch"

  5. reading up on Boris Vian ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Vian) after enjoying his very surreal story, ā€œThe Dead Fish.ā€ What a way to go out mad!

    wikipedia screenshot: DeathOn the morning of 23 June 1959, Vian was at the CinƩma Marbeuf for the screening of the film version of I will Spit on Your Graves. He had already fought with the producers over their interpretation of his work, and he publicly denounced the film, stating that he wished to have his name removed from the credits. A few minutes after the film began, he reportedly blurted out: "These guys are supposed to be American? My ass!" He then collapsed into his seat and died from sudden cardiac death on his way to the hospital.

  6. went to grab Black Water 2 off the table only to find that a little spider was using it to build a web over the tv. spooky!

    not the first time this series has summoned bugs. previously https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110209784638054304

    my paperback of Black Water 2, a thousandish page collection of creepy short stories, on top of Amos Tutuola's The Palm-wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which i'm also reading, sitting on a table in front of my tva spider dangles above both by a web

    E C U, the spider

  7. sfmta I challenge yā€™all to not concern troll this excellent feedback on your L by complaining about defacements

  8. in a world, where two movies come out around the same time, and every single person on earth seems to notice for some reason almost as if they were directly participating in a coordinated marketing campaign for one or the other or both movies, idk idk, ahem, ahem. every poster, must fight to survive

  9. exactly one block of this otherwise lovely ride was dumb enough for a car (perhaps London Breed herself!) to honk at me.

    assuming tenth-of-a-mile blocks, punters have about a 0.00043% chance of guessing which one it was!

    a strava screenshot of a bike route loop lined in red over San Francisco, from the Mission east to Oracle Arena, along the waterfront north and then west around to Ocean Beach and back through Golden Gate Park to the wiggle back to the mission

  10. Municipal Legacy Business Equity Agency

  11. my go to red sauce for two starts with the oil: a half cup, a quarter cup, and an eighth cup, to extract garlic, basil, and pepper, to fry the tomatoes, and to finish with butter and cheese, respectively

    the half with a head of garlic, large pinches of red pepper flakes, and soon (missing), four full stalks of basil in a small sauce pan

    the quarter, w/pepper flakes, for the tomatoes

    the eighth to finish, missing: eight chiffonaded basil leaves, salt to taste

  12. fifteen: Egan again. I knew Iā€™d have a 10 hours of plane time, so I brought ā€œOceanicā€ ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6741362-oceanic) and it delivered.

    Eganā€™s political and hard science (the bulk of this set) stories are my favorites while the atheist ones like the title story ā€œOceanicā€ are probably more interesting to previously religious people, which I never was. Iā€™ve always found faith to be entirely inscrutable, so exploring losing it is kinda just more of that to me?

    the current "Oceaninc" paperback cover, mostly black with sepia colored imagery of something abstract (maybe from a microscope of some kind) covered by the authors name in large white distressed italic capital sans partially filled with a yellow liquid (that could be photographed vegetable oil, idk)

  13. introduced to Amos Tutuolaā€™s ā€œThe Complete Gentlemanā€ ( https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/11169484-the-complete-gentleman) via ā€œBlack Water 2.ā€ Tutuolaā€™s novel ā€œMy Life in the Bush of Ghostsā€ is what Brian Eno and David Byrneā€™s 1981 album is named after, which i did not know about and now would like to read.

    i canā€™t find you a copy but hereā€™s a fun analysis: https://www.tor.com/2018/12/19/i-aint-got-no-body-amos-tutuolas-the-complete-gentleman/

  14. peony

    idk, a kind of lily?

    pink flowers, idk what kind!

    daisies?

  15. tacked a few days before a wedding to visit burlington, vermont for a day (lovely) and stay in a lake house on upper saranac lake (pictured, also lovely) for a two

    upper saranac lake, 150 aqi, a small sail boat named "She Troll" anchored in the right foreground

    a lake house on upper saranac lake, side view, flower gardens surround the path to the porch, lane in the bottom right

    a map of the north east coast of north america including washington dc, new york, boston, toronto, and montreal, a blue dot near the center indicating about where we stayed