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posts from 2024 / 08

  1. 21: “Family Furnishings", by Alice Munro

    The later, somewhat darker, more explicitly autobiographical half of Munro’s anthologies of short stories.

    Munro’s characters tend to (I know this reads like a horoscope) move on from situations for the next thing without a plan, or to be a little selfish before getting back to being serious, if they ever do. She’s always putting characters on trains, or in cars, or on buses.

    Previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110531577683425679, https://mastodon.social/@gravely/112440630402434626

    the cover of A Family Furnishings, selected stories: 1995-2014, originally published as Selected Stories. green on white water color text under an illustration of (I assume) the author, somewhat older than in the previous anthology

  2. two “fun facts" (my kid picked up that phrase and has been using it arbitrarily, so now I do)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_scramble “Barnes Dances”

    I forgot David Byrne wrote about biking, so now that is is on the list of shit to read http://davidbyrne.com/explore/bicycle-diaries/about

  3. texts like this are like the inverse of gell-mann amnesia, and the best ones (which this is? Idk I’m not that well read to say!) do so w/o degrading into the easier and tedious "we’re all failing and need to do better” conference keynote gimmick simulation of it.

    anyway, by which I mean, you read about an area of focus in another field and see the author clearly knows what they are talking about and moreover that the grievances they have align w/ the same grievances you have in your own field

  4. 20th book of 2024: “Killed by a Traffic Engineer”, by Wes Marshall ( https://www.killedbyatrafficengineer.com).

    Lots of people read this last year when Marshall published it and the title was so catchy, I thought about it after the last few accidents in SF, which made me think I should go back and actually read it.

    80+ three page ideas, lots of overlap with the incident management side of my day job, casually written (if a little too pop, even, but I guess that’s ok).

    Every field is like this, it seems.

    The paperback cover, as I read it, of “Killed by a Traffic Engineer”, by Wes Marshall. Title and author name in all caps grotesque, pitch in a standard case, all center aligned, title top, author name bottom right, pitch bottom left, white on black. In the center is a photograph of a stop sign that has been damage and the lower left corner bent out of shape, so that it only says O PRed spine, white text.KILLED BYA TRAFFIC ENGINEERO PShattering the Delusion that ScienceUnderlies Our TransportationSystemWESMARSHALL

    “daddy I thought we were supposed to be playing legos?”

    “this is playing legos!”

    batman was not impressed.

    photograph of a stack of 10 lego legs or "pants" in a rainbow with fire mario on top standing on a small green platform facing a gray lego figure with like 20 heads stacked on top, the top one has long hair and is wearing a red hard hat. head-lord is taller than leg-lord by a few heads. a dumb old gray batman lego figure (normal height) stands between them looking up being mad about everything

  6. inspired but in no way meeting the bar set by the amazingly incredible early girl tomato marg I had at the pizza, bagel, and beer fest last weekend

    photo of a Neapolitan pizza w/ sauce, cheese, and basil

    macro photo of a Neapolitan pizza w/ sauce, cheese, and basil from crust to crust

    macro photo of a Neapolitan pizza w/ sauce, cheese, and basil, sliced, showing off the crust

  7. 😬 a lil’ nervous, I have an appointment with a stylist this afternoon, my first since February 2020, when I was forced to end years of an every-three-weeks wash and style scissor-cut booking near the office (a luxury). I, eventually started cutting my own.

    I found “very short” to be pretty easy to DIY, but decided to let it go nearly two years ago and started growing it out long, w/ DIY maintenance.

    6 months in: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109928979027718696

    another year in (2 months ago): https://mastodon.social/@gravely/112696371678091310

  8. check it out, shadows of the tower in the fog

    also the interior panels seem to have a much fresher coat of orange paint than what we typically see from the rest of the city

    a photograph of a large radio tower, Sutro Tower, in san francisco at a dutch angle with the sun centered opposite, shining through the tower supports with fog throughout. the upper spires of the tower are casting long shadows in the fog

    selfie more or less under the tower of a large radio tower in san francisco, or at least as close as it can be approached without working there

    the tower from the western woods, a very muddy singletrack leads straight away in the bottom left in a green, sun-dappled forest, while the red and white tower looms to the rear in the top right

  9. 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️

    🏁 what I’m considering “the rest of Eureka Valley”, Clarendon Heights?, Upper Market, and Midtown Terrace. I’m gonna have to come back for the interior of Laguna Honda.

    I’ve bee consistently pecking away since my last post in April, but for most of them I need to “get there” first which makes it harder to do in the morning. I’d rather bike when I have that much time. Then summer break started, vacations, etc.

    Next idk, maybe Dogpatch and Mission Bay?

    A San Francisco street map centering the area around Twin Peaks, bound by 17th street along the north, Noe St. to the east, Portola to the south, and 9th ave on the west. Surrounding Twin peaks, most streets have a meandering purple GPS path I’ve logged on it, generally completing (in order I walked it) Eureka Valley, Clarendon Heights, Upper Market, and Midtown Terrace.

  10. logging on

    https://tvwatch.party/@ryan/112972381931044700

  11. Announcer: Thirty parents in SF agree.

    Parents: [in unison] The Junction in Mill Valley is ideal!

    Parent gravely: They have a damned pirate ship!

    [The parents all nod in agreement]

    Unnamed older parent: The beer garden vibe is also nice.

    [The parents nod in agreement and toast their drinks]

    Parent gravely: It’s a too bad there’s nothing like it in San Francisco!

    [The parents continue to nod in agreement]

    Announcer: Thirty parents in SF agree, The Junction in Mill Valley is ideal!

  12. 19th book of 2024: “Sourdough”, by Robin Sloan ( https://www.robinsloan.com/books/sourdough/).

    Re-using my comment on Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: “Fun, light, very quick read. Very weird to read something so connected to ~2017~ techie-San-Francisco and get 100% of the references and roll my eyes at a few of them.”

    Started Sloan’s newest, Moonbound, immediately afterward, and it’s very different so far.

    The paperback cover of “Sourdough”, by Robin Sloan. btw, it would be cool if publishers wrote their own alt-texts for their own covers!A photograph of a pale and cracked loaf of bread on a barely tinted solid yellow is covered in yellow crinkle-cut ovals in a sticker effect, one has the title, another a blurb, and so on (pasted bwloe. The author’s name is in the lower left in a cooper-like all-caps block serif.Pasted words:INCLUDESNEWTALE OFTHEPENUMBRAVERSE,THE SUITCASE CLONESOURDOUGH"Deliciousfun... Asoddlydelectableas itsnamesake."THE WASHINGTONPOSTAUTHOR OFMr. Penumbras24-HourBookstoreROBINSLOAN

  13. I think fauxtesting kinda sucks but this one cracks me up every time I walk past it because I also think scoldy and bossy signs also suck.

    A fake road sign in the window of a house in san francisco that says:PRIVATESIGNDO NOTREADI'm sure on the backside, it didn't say nothing, etc., etc.

  14. and so on

  15. oh word, which one was that? don’t worry, I got you

    (previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/107848168559145930)

  16. Moved a few afternoon meetings to make the last hour and a half of Kid Koala at SF MOMA’s ‘Art of Noise’ exhibition. I’m a huge fan from way back, was amazing!

    Normally a phone-in-pocket-guy at shows but, he put on on John Carpenter’s soundtrack to Big Trouble Little China to play a bit of “Pork Chop Express” and I had to send proof back east to brag.

    photograph of Kid Koala at SF MOMA's ‘Art of Noise’ exhibition in front of a knee-level table of fancy audio gear, with stacks of records, probably 60 or 80 or so, leaning against the table, and Kid Koala standing on front of it, looking at the back cover of John Carpenter’s soundtrack of Big Trouble Little China trying to decide what song to play for us

  17. nice, sometimes, when the fog is just right, as the sun sets, you get a rainbow through it

    cropped photo of a rainbow over the mission in san francisco from the center bottom of the frame to the top 1/6th from the right-edge, a power line crossed 1/6th across the bottom edge and the top two stories of building in the bottom left face west and reflect the sunset in its windows. the sky is mostly cloudy with some blue

    cropped photo of a rainbow touching down on the golden (dead) grass of bernal heights, the saturation is maxed out as is the luminance or something like that. A utility pole, trees, and buildings on 26th street fill the bottom 1/6th of the grame

  18. I’m three stories in to my first paper copy of @clarkesworld ( https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/) after subbing a week or two ago and all three are great, the print format is great, no regrets, would recommend, etc.

    just finished “The Best Version Of Yourself” By Grant Collier ( https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/collier_07_24/) and it’s particularly good i m h o

  19. (my friday pizza bake is threaded so that you can mute it)

    inspired by the "Bitter & Smokey” I had for lunch at Tony’s Napoletana yesterday, but too lazy to go buy ricotta or pancetta or broccoli rabe, I did the thing every online recipe commenter does and subbed the heck out of it with what I had on hand, but this time it turned out delicious, even with the left over frozen dough from a month ago that I used

    I pre-cooked the broccoli in a carbon steel pan in the pizza oven, as one does

    A screen grab of the menu from Tony’s NapoletanaBITTER & SMOKYbroccoli rabe,smoked pancetta,smoked mozzarella,lemon, ricotta,crushed red pepper$34

    Photograph of the pizza before baking, topped with smoked provolone, mozz, red pepper flakes, grilled broccoli, and olive oil, on a bamboo peel resting on a stainless steel tabletop under an Ooni Koda 16 gas pizza oven. The flames of the oven are visible at the top of the photo as high as they get, and the oven is about 1000 degrees, the stone in the 800-900s, Fahrenheit.

    macro photograph of the pizza from inches above looking from one crust to the other, plated and sliced into quarters; the cheese has bubbled and browned in spots, the broccoli is charred a bit, and there’s a lemon wedge in the center, and the crust is browned with leopard spots

  20. “pedestrian activity is that intuitive factor"

    in other word, infrastructure is people!

    https://sfba.social/@LukeBornheimer/112893746759026176