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posts from 2024 / 11

  1. caught a hot tip that “A People’s History of North American Music" is rad, in Berkeley on the 11th and SF on the 12th https://www.mississippirecords.net/calendar-2024/west-coast-tour-a-peoples-history-of-north-american-music, have plans the 12th I might cancel or not and go the 11th, tbd

  2. sf being a small town, it went like this

    “and for this one I got a few days ago, it’s Sun Ra so you know I gotta get something that sparkles”

    "what night did you go?” another customer asks

    “saturday”

    "I went friday”, he says

    “right on”

    “sparkles, what are they like ABBA?" the frame shop worker asks

    “no, kinda the opposite of ABBA" says the other guy

    “more like jazz I guess" I say

    “afro-futurism" he says

    “uh, OK" the frame shop guy says

  3. Getting another @paulrickards piece framed at the same time as the @SunRaUniverse poster I got Saturday at the show.

    I wanted to get the plotter piece with ornate yellow cope in the top right corner but it would have been 10x the cost so I lowered my sights a little to the one on the piece. 🖊️☀️

    And the Sun Ra Arkestra poster absolutely had to be sparkles, but again the ones pictured around it are eye-poppingly expensive so I went with a smaller, finer grit, but still sparkle, not pictured. 🪩🤗

    a pen plog on paper, and a larger poster, on a work table at the frame shop on the left is a medium sized yellow and orange pen line plot (done on a computer plotter) of a sun with rays casting outon the right is a Sun Ra Arkestra poster illustration of abstract green, orange, brown, and pink shapes over a gray square that takes up most of the poster, which has a creamy white background

  4. every morning I crack three eggs into a non-stick pan on medium heat, slide them off to a plate sunny side up when they are ready, return the pan to the stove, raise the heat to medium-high, and fry spinach and a few cherry tomatoes in olive oil which spatters oil all over the place

    today after having made a mess, oh idk, probably a thousand times or so over the past few years, I plopped the spinach on top of the tomatoes once it wilted a little and it prevented the spatter mess entirely. gdi.

  5. logging on

    https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/113549771635080860

  6. standing in the back of the club wearing a kn95 and earplugs wishing mask precautions weren’t a thing anymore and that i hadn’t stood where i did the entire j mascis (Witch) show in baltimore twenty years ago

    also my phone just reminded me it’s almost bedtime

    photo of the marque of The Great American Music Hall in SF, the Sun Ra Arkestra is playing tonight, i'm inside

  7. when I was a energy company security person back in the 00s my intrusion detection system hit on a VNC signature and I had a network capture running so I went and carved it out and replayed the video of it and it looked just like this and I panicked a little (I had no idea what our actual control systems looked like) and then called the worker who I saw on the other end of it

    they were doing volunteer work for their local ice skating rink

    https://fedi.computernewb.com/@vncresolver/113515876167083817

  8. and someone from the parks service walked over and gave us three huge trash bags and asked that we make sure to clean up after ourselves, which of course we had planned to, and did, but that was nice

  9. someone approached and asked how we booked the spot because they wanted to do the same thing so I got to relate that story, then they took a picture one of the grills we were using, which I thought was weird, but I guess people just do that anymore

  10. the picnic was a success, we used two of the grills, four or five of the tables, and some of us grabbed e-bikes back to work downtown from the parking racks up the street because the ride from Chase to the Ferry Building is pretty nice even on a cool day

  11. i should be allowed to drop some words in some sentences and some letters in some words

  12. It’s a secret to everybody. I put my sourdough starter in the little closet under the stairs where my home server and network gear is when I feed it on weekends in the winter.

  13. so I’m finally going back to 1999, running it for myself only, on my home internet connection. kinda nice tbh

  14. the actual work of getting it to build was mostly fighting with the cruft of fads and new-things (shtml, textpattern, wordpress, octopress, etc) and incredible journeys ( https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/) and stuff I’d divested from over whatever reasons seemed sufficient at the time. Oh, we are all protest-deleting our github accounts now? Ok, I can do that. Oh, flickr got acquired and is being weird? Cya. tumblr too? bummer.

  15. most of the content is even more personally embarrassing than it was when I blew it away last time, six years ago. No one should have to reconcile with specific texts of their own teens, twenties, or thirties, which was the explicit reason I used to keep it up, until I didn’t believe it anymore: the unexamined life, blah, blah, blah

  16. got my old 1999-2011 blog ( https://web.archive.org/web/20170709060307/http://archives.grantstavely.com/ to build with 11ty ( http://11ty.dev ) during idle time over the past few weekends. I don’t know if it’s even possible or coherent to rebuild the 2011-2018 tumblr ( https://web.archive.org/web/20180330002228/https://grantstavely.com/) I replaced it with

    anyway, 11ty seems nice

  17. someone who knows better has a hot tip that there is in fact a bathroom up the steps next to harmonic in thrive city (“yea, I’m going to the city next week”; some local “hey, we don’t say “the city” you sound like a damned tourist, we say whole ass name [enunciating carefully] Thrive city, c’mon.”)

    need to investigate this claim

  18. I can hear this hooky Newmanesque chorus (or a much better one probably) getting played at Giants games and everything

    Oh, San Francisco

    Oh, I gotta go

    Oh, I gotta go

  19. planning a picnic and intending to use the grills at the new bayfront park ( https://www.sf.gov/news/mayor-london-breed-celebrates-grand-opening-bayfront-park-mission-bay) and it looks like, oops, no bathrooms there?

    why does LA get a randy newman and we don’t?

  20. those jerks at HBO better not disrespect Steve Huey, JD Ryznar, David B Lyons, and Hunter Stair with all that is going on with the world right now

    :22 second mark, phew ok, we’re gonna be ok

  21. the lower clouds this morning were as much fun as the sky itself, like fog sneaking off to the bay instead of burning off like it’s supposed to

    photograph of san francisco in the mission looking southeast at sunrise this morning (some dox) the sky is streaked with orange-lit clouds over a blue sky backing, but low at the horizon and heading east, a thick gray cloud bank roils slowly

  22. dorothea lange bot is posting my neighborhood!

    https://mastodon.ozioso.online/@DorotheaLange/113465438690782374

    screen grab from the matrix where Mouse runs to everyone else to say that morpheus is fighting neo

  23. Clarkesworld Issue 217 ( https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prior/issue_217/) was pretty solid all around. I think I left 216 in a hotel room (d’oh!), so I’m going back to finish the last two stories of 215 and then I’ll check out 216 on the web.

    I particularly liked "Midnight Patron” by Mike Robinson ( https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/robinson_10_24/)

    The cover of Clarkesworld issue 217, a ship that looks like a cross between Sputnik and a junk fly over a body of water banked by cliffs on either side over a sepia nebulae filled star fieldhttps://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_217/Upon finishing instruction at Art Center, Robert Watts spent the next decade in aerospace where he was exposed to, and rendered, many secret and wildly advanced concepts. This period was followed by a movement into the much broader field of general illustration and storytelling assignments. His career has included the broadest range of styles, media and subject matter imaginable. Most notable among all these has been a deep love of fictional adventure, from Jules Verne to Larry Niven. The story has always been key, be it Nemos’ submarine Nautilus, or the saga of the Ring World. The search goes on into the worlds we only dream of seeing.

  24. if you are in line to vote for trevor chandler stay in line

  25. the network stack on os x sequoia sucks, wish I hadn’t upgraded

  26. a little late for Halloween 2024 but this Sun Ra tune, "The Forrest of No Return” just came my way and I’ll be bringing it back next year for sure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt6WLWnMTAU

    edit: https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/pink-elephants-on-parade

  27. anyway, so bogomil, probably had the usual baggage, but I bet this specific bit didn’t work out too well for them

    ![wikipedia screenshot, text:Doctrine [edit ]оучать же свою си не повиновати са властелемь своимь; хоулаще богатым, царьненавидать, рягажть са старбишинамь, оукарніть болары, мрьзькы богоу мьнатьработа жщаю цьсарю, и вьсакомоу рабоу не велать работати господиноу свомоу.ucetu je soja si ne povinovati se vlastelem svoim; xuleste bogatyie, cari nenavidet, regajot sẹ stareisinamum, ukarjajot boljary, mriziky bogu minetu rabotajosteje cesarju, i visjakomu rabu ne veleti rabotati gospodinu svojemu.They teach their followers not to obey their masters; they scorn the rich, they hate the Tsars, they ridicule their superiors, they reproach the boyars, they believe that God looks in horror on those who labour for the Tsar, and advise every serf not to work for his master. 32]- Cosmas the Priest, Treatise Against the Bogomils](./113448223430456892.png)

  28. Link uses the term manichaeism in this interview and I don’t know it but didn’t look it up because I wanted to keep reading. then this morning I’m reading https://inthesetimes.com/article/former-left-right-fascism-capitalism-horseshoe-theory and it’s got manichaeism used too.

    Dang. so I go pop open https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism and from there eventually land on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogomilism, which, haha, explains the last Link novel’s name for one of the characters, “Bogomil.”, which I let slide when I read that.

    I’m a very, very credulous reader. "Oh, ok, whatever.”

  29. flipping the OBS scene from “face cam” to “footage”, the increasingly tangential pop-documentary archival clip style that has replaced burns-style photo-pans-and-zoom of actual subject matter with abstract and completely unrelated stock that, at best, is period correct or ironically untrue to the nonsense I’m spouting as I go into a big monologue to staff about getting our reports done on time

  30. looking up the chicago school of economics building to make a house of leaves jokes in chat and unsurprised to find it looks like a god damned church

    photograph of a brick church seminary on a partly cloudy day from 50 foot up looking down and across the entanceThe former Chicago Theological Seminary building located at 5757 South University Avenue was adaptively reused to house instructional and research programs for the Department of Economics and the office, conference, and research facilities for the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics. The 100,770 gross square foot main building was renamed the Saieh Hall for Economics in June 2014. The renovation began in Fall 2012 and encompassed repairs and upgrades to the building envelope, HVAC and electrical and voice/data systems, and bringing the building infrastructure up to all required life/safety and accessibility codes. New space was constructed below grade for mechanical rooms and a large tiered lecture hall. To connect the east and west existing buildings at the ground level, a new building entrance was constructed by vacating the alley exiting to 58th Street. Construction was completed in June 2014. from: https://facilities.uchicago.edu/construction/5757south-university/

  31. was in the mood for more Kelly Link and landed on an interview ( https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2023/12/15/kelly-link-kevin-brockmeier/ ) instead. it starts off strong talking about this fun idea of nighttime logic, daytime logic, and dream logic, then they compare book lists fitting each.

    warning: it’s pretty dangerous if you have a growing-the-to-read-pile-habbit, I picked up three of the books in their lists.

    Kevin BrockmeierIn every workshop I teach, I end up mentioning the distinction you makebetween nighttime logic, daytime logic, and dream logic. It's an idea thatalways generates much curiosity; my students view it as a source not onlyof creative clarity but of creative permission. To begin with, here's my bestattempt at articulating these different storytelling approaches: A narrativepossesses daytime logic when at the end you can say, "This happened,and then this happened, and it makes sense, and I can explain why." Withnighttime logic, you say, "This happened, and then this happened, and itmakes sense, and I can't explain why." And with dream logic, you say,"This happened, and then this happened, and it doesn't make any sense."In other words, daytime logic produces a logical, causal kind of sense,while nighttime logic produces a more mysterious, emotional kind ofsense. Dream logic produces emotion but not sense. Are there ways inwhich you would reshape this explanation for me? What have I missed?Kelly LinkI like your articulation a great deal. I might add that there's somethingabout nighttime logic that produces the sensation in the reader that we arein a space between daylight and dreaming.

  32. violet, fuscia, deep orange, sunshine yellow gradient. that’s pretty.

    https://botsin.space/@CALandscapeBot/113439510288765240

  33. it’s really clever how oven makers put the big stock pot burners on the back so’s when you accidentally pull your entire salt cellar out of the upper cabinet next to the stove with an errant finger while trying to get a pinch in a hurry for something else and about two cups of kosher salt dump all over the stovetop, counter, floor, etc, none of it gets in the stock pot with dinner in it

  34. what will it take to connect this all the way to Mission? I want to understand

    alt-text for quoted image: a street design displaying proposed changes to a bike lane in san francisco

    https://carfree.city/@sfmtadocsbot/113409728354860618