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posts from 2023 / 09

  1. o/ to whoever left an entire box of http://www.totalgrantsolution.org mugs on the sidewalk by my place today. my first name is Grant so I grabbed two of them. the saul bass lookin’ design and generic company name are perfect

    photograph, white corporate coffee mug, company name side “Tekmeca” in red helvetica next to an abstract geometric green and blue logo

    photograph, white corporate coffee mug, product name side “TOTAL GRANT SOLUTION” in red helvetica under to an abstract cut-up looking block and line three point star in red, yellow, and blue

  2. guy next to me on bart is reading the last few pages of The Road between civic center and the mission, brutal

  3. It’s all in the second person, which i got used to but, ugh

    it’ll probably make an OK movie

    it reminded me a lot of Jeff Noon who I enjoy more for this kind of thing

    Being set in and about Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka politics was really neat

    it’s pretty brutal in some places, which I don’t get down with

    the twist was annoying

    the last 20 pages were not needed

  4. 21st book of the year: “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida”, by Shehan Karunatilaka

    A friend posted that they’d just read a book that they think might be the best book they’d ever read, and it was this one. 4, 3, 2, 1 was listed for a Booker and this one won the prize? OK, I’ll try it.

    I really wanted to like it more than I did, and the second act really flows well, but I had a hard time finishing it, today, finally. It’s right up my alley in lots of ways. v0v

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57224204-the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida

    Paperback cover, as I read it, centered all-caps futura lookin' font w/ thep points all alightly rounded in white over a multicolor acrylic painted face in bold geometric cirles and rings and swoops in vibrant colors

  5. stunt dark, labor free (free as in time)

    roux, baked 30 minutes, color: peanut butter

    roux, baked 60 minutes, color: chocolate

    roux, baked 90 minutes, color: darker chocolate

    roux, baked 240 minutes, poured and scraped onto on the aromatics, color: dark chocolate

  6. my kid (5y old this week!) has been obsessed with building stuff out of cardboard after drawing front back top and sides and cutting them out and wanted me to make a transformer yesterday

    so i searched for patterns and fell down a papercraft hole, do not recommend

    fiddly as shit i had to do all of the assembly myself

    he loves them though!

    also, cyberdrone’s deviantart is wild: https://www.deviantart.com/cyberdrone

    arcee, optimus prime, and soundwave transformers in robot mode, papercraft, colored by a 5y old, assembled poorly by mei made the first one correctly with slots and tabs, after that, fucking nope, used elmer's glue

    the optimus prime papercraft design we used, by "CyberDrone"

  7. i learned to make roux for gumbo from dad’s pal from boot camp, who was from louisiana, and he taught us the patient “stir, stir, stir, heat, stir, but whatever you do, don’t burn!” method.

    it stinks to stand over and mind and is apparently a recent trend. like, originally, people just didn’t make roux so dark that it was so much work

    but i do like my roux dark, so i start a few hours earlier and bake it at 350F, slight stir every half hour or so, easy mode

    a quarter sheet with a cup of oil in it, a cup of all purpose flour and roux spoon standing by, about to be addedmethod and recipe from serious eats, as per, which i use now instead of the old note card i used to dig out

    the raw roux, mixed, pale, in a quarter sheet, about to go into the oven, which i had just stirred with my roux spoon

    the roux in the quarter sheet in the oven

  8. ✅ boosted, ✅ flu vaxed, ✅ guy giving me the shot asked if I was a swimmer on account of these deltoids

  9. incredibly neat to me, after having read it, to learn that Kohlhaas was a historical person ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kohlhaas), that Marthin Luther actually did attempt to intercede, and even cooler, that Kohlhaas was out doing direction actions for 8 years to get justice before the state got him (and broke him on the wheel, yikes)

    also there’s of course a feature film which I’m probably not gonna bother with but what if it’s good idk https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2054790/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

  10. 20th book of the year: “Michael Kohlhaas”, by Heinrich von Kleist. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kohlhaas)

    4 3 2 1 was full of writers learning the trade from other writers and hundreds of books are mentioned. I’m sure I’ll thumb through it for more suggestions but this one was the first I chose.

    I think probably best to go in completely without any idea what it is beyond: german, written early 1800s, takes place in the 1500s, and Kafka, of all people liked it a lot.

    The paperback cover as I read it - just over 100 pages (slim!), an illustrated figure wearing a cloak leans against a broad sworn with one foot extended, hand to chin, only there is no chin (and no head), over a green to red to green gradient. The book title atop and author’s name below in gothic script

  11. The ebay search paid off and I was able to buy a pair of out-of-production pants identical to ones I already own (noticing as I post this that I’m wearing the original pair right now) for next to nothing because I like the pair I have and want them to live forever and this is one way to cheat commodity death. huzzah.

  12. Telling a friend about 4, 3, 2, 1 over dinner, I said it was romantic and lovely, if you didn’t mind new yorkers in love with new york, ellis island through the 60s, the anti-war movement, and all that shit we’ve heard so much about, which I did not mind.

    Later, while my kid was eating pizza and getting sauce two inches up both cheeks, I asked him to fold it in half and the guy at the next table who’d overheard me laughed and said "I’m from New York and it’s really like all of that, you know”

  13. 19th book of the year, “4, 3, 2, 1", by Paul Auster ( https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/4321-by-Paul-Auster-10889359.php)

    Loved it, spent most of my spare time since I started it with it, will miss it, probably missed a lot in it.

    The paperback cover as I read it - lower-case individually-placed stencil letters on an uneven baseline, the author’s name in blue sky atop the title in rust or flame orange, all over flat navy blue

  14. 🎼 “Lines form on my face and hands"

    Yeah it be like that

    🎤 "Lines form from the ups and downs”

    ikr?

    🎸 “I’m in the middle without any plans"

    Aren’t we all?

    🤘🏼 “I’m a boy and I’m a man”

    Yeah I feel like I’ve I’m on my third mid-life cri—

    👼🏼 “I’m eighteen!"

    Jesus H. Christ! No! Shut up!

  15. 🤌🏼

    bernal heights from the west side of mission street between 26th and caesar chavez, 7:40AM, clear blue skies, but the heights are shrouded in fog from the west

  16. Youtube is so great for guitar players. Via Norman’s Rare Guitars “Guitar of the Day”, in addition to the hosts, I got into Josh Smith, and from Josh to Bruce Foreman, and also from Josh to Greg Koch.

    Got a ticket to finally see Bruce Foreman in three weeks at the Keys Jazz Bistro, hell yeah.

  17. Up all night worrying that we haven’t begun design let alone construction of a thousand foot tall colossus (my preferred design is a phoenix looking west) atop earthworks in the san francisco bay, which, as a long term serious thinker, is my only political issue

    “there are only one shelter bed for every 15 people sleeping on the streets and some judge has the nerve—” Shut up! Shut up! What about the colossus?!

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  19. “It’s so dark with all this wood paneling, so to brighten it up, we’re going to paint it all this true white, and the walls this more neutral blue/gray. To separate these two rooms, we had a local artisan make this barn door to hang on rollers.”

    “Wow, it really does look like a barn door with these rails and stiles.", Norm said.

    “And for this accent wall, we were thinking, shiplap.”

  20. getting really close to watching the video cassette of space balls the movie w/ my This Old House speed run, and it is terrible. I’m now skipping the interior design nonsense like I already skip any home alarm system nonsense.