pizza slow (high quality)

  1. Aside: I mostly chose what to read when someone else who I specifically think is cool (even if I don’t know them or w/e) says or posts that they like something and it has almost never let me down.

    This one, for example, I picked up in December: https://twitter.com/ImJuneFacts/status/1606339706811097088

    Tweet screenshot@ImJuneFacts: The best novel I read this year was The Museum of Eterna's Novel (the First Good Novel). It has 50 prologues for the simple reason that the book is reluctant to begin, and is metafiction in the sense that it explores an intermediate reality between our own and that of the fiction

  2. threading is getting fragile so I’m backing this out to the main thread: what I thought would be the fifth, sixth, or maybe seventh book of the year turned out to be my eight. Such is the tragic unpredictability of having a full shelf of in-progress and to-read nonsense.

    Eighth book of the year: The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (The First Good Novel) by Macedonio Fernández ( https://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/2010/12/01/museum-of-eternas-novel-the-first-good-novel/)

    The Rochester “Three Percent” review closes with a lovely summary.

    the current paperback cover, a three color bullseye offset over a white field

    The last paragraph of the rochester review (see link in post)

  3. made a 16" NY-style pizza last night in the Ooni

    it looks a lot better than it was!

    Large, round peperoni pizza home-fired in a gas ooni koda, well leopard spotted mozza, cupped pepperonis, perfectly charred and shaped crust (ok, the bit around 2 o’clock around is actually burned)under baked bottom on account of experimenting w/ both a pizza-ring and a lower (~550F) launch temperature while fucking up and using too much cheese and sauce

  4. warms the cockles of my bureaucratic heart to see a team of competent workers swoop in, protect other workers, and prevent losses for debtors (while realizing losses for risk takers): this must be what it feels like to “send in the troops”

  5. happy friday

    selfie, full length mirror, new black t shirt from melville house, "I WOULD PREFER NOT TO." in white block san in the front, brown levis cords, blacked out vans

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