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posts from 2023 / 08

  1. the corrupt frisco wallet inspector is still funny as hell https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/rodrigo-santos-sentenced-to-prison/

    In this image from an FBI affidavit, Rodrigo Santos is accused of altering a check written to “DBI” to read “RoDBIgo Santos.” It was deposited in his Bank of America personal account.

  2. alright, “4321” has my attention, this is lovely

  3. 18th book of the year: “SPQR”, by Mary Beard

    Wanted to read some history after the last few things. Kept seeing Beard press over the years, saw she has a new book out and grabbed a used copy of her old stuff instead.

    lotta “assassinated for tyranny after proposing social and/or land use reforms” Kermit-confused-face.bmp

    lotta good stuff on how normal people lived

    next up, the most recent Paul Auster, “4321”, cya in like a month or two probably

    the paperback cover as i read it, title over author's name in black serif over white. the font is probably Trajan idk (haha). a crown (of gold laurel?) surrounds the titleINTERNATIONALBESTSELLERSPOR A HISTORYOF ANCIENTROME MARYBEARD'Beard succeeds triumphantly Sunday Times

  4. oh, one thing you’ve learned was against your will? must be nice!

  5. asleep by 9:15, wake up at 4, mentally review damage taken (doh) and given (oops) yesterday, pad down to the kitchen at 5, turn the lights on as dim as they go, make coffee, start to read scrollback and accruing damage for the day

    get annoyed by the ambient noise the fridge is making, use a smart-switch to power off the fridge, replace it with ambient noise somebody else made, cozy up by the speaker https://schwebung.bandcamp.com/album/radiance

    kid up at 5:40, we’re watching spiderman and doing the moves :||

  6. lol lmao that ‘judgement’ is correctly spelled ‘judgment’ in some uses and visa versa

    c’mon

  7. 17th book of the year: “The Palm-Wine Drinkard” and “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” by Amos Tutuola ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/303496.The_Palm_Wine_Drinkard_My_Life_in_the_Bush_of_Ghosts)

    The story I enjoyed in Black Water 2 was an excerpt from “The Palm-Wine Drinkard” (which is subtitled “and his dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads’ Town)

    I preferred the drinkard because more of the stories in it seem like little self-contained myths. And of course I’m glad to now have a connection back to the Byrne/Eno album that I love.

    current paperback cover of the plam-wine drinkard, and my life in the bush of hosts, flat orange on the top half and a green leaf motif on the bottom half with black text over both and abstract-ish opposing-half paper collage of what looks like an someone’s exquisite-corpse project (you can kinda make out a head on the top half and if that’s a head, maybe a body on the bottom half?)

  8. fake-warning “a man recommending a podcast"

    I had intended to stop consuming “the left stays losing" stuff for a bit because it is so g d depressing but https://the-santiago-boys.com is really, really good

    hashtags Allende EvgenyMorozov StaffordBeer ThePurposeOfASystemIsWhatItDoes Nixon CIA blah blah

  9. very belatedly getting into Unknown Mortal Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-36lCKovBg

  10. also, re-reading Bartleby (the original anti-makin’ copies guy) reminded me that 1) he has office mates named Turkey, Nippers, and Ginger Nut (tag yourself) and 2) “I would prefer not to” is only his first catch phrase, once he wore that out he pivoted to "I am not particular.” which is also delicious.

    Screen shot of an SNL “Makin’ Copies” sketch featuring Phil Hartman, (RIP), Julia Sweeney, Kevin Bacon, and Rob Schneider

  11. had mini-split air conditioning installed in our place last month, where i work from home, at great expense and wall-destruction, and now that it’s summer in the west bay I’m sitting in the cat bird seat

  12. I think merchant associations should have a seat at the table sike!

  13. first day of public school for junior (t. k. at Flynn) and well, well, well, if it isn’t my old nemesis, the prison-wall face with ever-changing hands which slow down the more you glance at them. slower and slower, slower and slower. but to look away is impossible

    photograph of the clock high up on the wall in a public school classroom

  14. the real best part though? I bought both 1 and 2 used as paperbacks and they are both about 1000 pages and about 70-90 stories but Black Water 2 was printed on much lighter paper than Black Water, which made holding the damned thing open to read much less uncomfortable.

  15. 16: “Black Water 2, More Tales of the Fantastic” loved it, full of surprises and delights from authors I’ve never heard of and authors most have — Arthur Conan Doyle, F Scott Fitzgerald, E B White, Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margret Atwood, George Bernard Shaw , Arthur C Lark) — and stories too , like Melville’s Bartleby.

    "The Complete Gentleman” turned me onto Amos Tutuola, who I’m now reading in full.

    And a story from Isabell Allende?! Nice.

    previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110403938932091902

    the paperback cover of Black Water 2, another creepy detail from the same painting used for the cover of Black Water. previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110403938932091902

  16. snoop dog holding a joint, laughing, looking right, wearing a gray winter cap and white and tan striped scarf

    split shotsleft: the paperback nyrb cover of “Autobiography of a Corpse” by, which is on my to-read pile (after I finish my life in the bush of ghosts and the palm-wine drinkard)right: a black and white photograph of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky wearing spectacles looking to the left in disbelief, as if looking at both the cover of his book, and snoop

  17. the only challenge coin i’ve ever kept

    photo of a challenge coin in my palm, a light blue field with a white daisy with a pink center in the middle, and the words Live top left, Love top right, and Laugh bottom center

  18. finally signing up for tsa [spits on the ground] pre and mad about this form question

    A screen shot of one question on the form which I waffled on before the everloving wife told me what she thought the right answer was :( Hair Color“Gray or partially gray”

  19. [TMBG voice] there’s only two parties in me, and I’m heading to the third

  20. Least favorite usually-reactionary move is when they say they are against something for the preposterous reason of, not-getting-it.

    “I don’t get it.”

    If you don’t get it, why not be FOR it until you do, or at least get the heck out of the way, knuckleheads.

  21. it is so weird how having hobbies is coped with by randos at parties who I assume are just thinking out loud

    “oh, you’re a ___ guy?"

    alright, hold your horses, no, don’t have that kind of attention span. I’m also mildly interested in and but don’t try to identify as into eight or nine other things, alright?