pizza slow (high quality)

absolutely not, app badges privileges revoked

iPhone "Phone" app notification indicator screenshot, a white "1" in a red circle over what looks like a very abstract magnetic tape reel to reel icon over the word "Voicemail" in dark gray

iPhone "Phone" app screenshot, text over a button:To retrieve a voicemail first set a password and greeting.[Set Up]

I skipped the damned introduction (as per. I don’t read introductions first, they are for re-readers) and read it after, which is a lot of words to say some interesting things but mostly conclude that Walter Benjamin gets the closest to figuring Kafka out

so I’ve now got https://docslib.org/doc/5900836/franz-kafka-on-the-tenth-anniversary-of-his-death open to maybe read, maybe abandon, at some later time, idk

22nd book of the year: “The Trial" by Franz Kafka.

Someone in Bernal Heights (Bonview at or near Cortland? It was a few months ago) left a box of books on the sidewalk with “FREE” written on a flap that had a few things I grabbed, among them, DFW’s “Consider the Lobster, and other essays” which I started and abandoned (lol), and this.

I enjoy stuff like this from time to time but don’t think I’m “smart enough” for it, whatever that means (and I’m not entirely sure).

paperback cover, Schoken press edition, introduction by George Steimer, a red tinted photograph of a face—really only the right half from chin to eyebrow—peers through four black bars inset on a black cover

the copy I read, yesterday, on my blue beach towel in the foregrown, my own shadow on the patio pavers in the background, where I was working on my suntan yesterday, wondering why god gives me his toughest battles (why I chose to read this instead of a page-turner that would actually be relaxing for the weekend)

arrabbiata base is just garlic, tomato, salt¹ and pepper²

¹ kosher, anchovy

² paprika, cracked black, red flakes, greek pepperocini

arrabbiata base in the bottom of a sauce pan: minced garlic, tomato paste, kosher salt, anchovies, paprika, cracked black pepper, red pepepr flakes, minced greek pepperocini

trip report: if they did it wasn’t up to the day or crowd, it was hot as hell in there

nevertheless, great show

audience photo of Queens of the Stone Age performing at Bill Graham Auditorium, the band is lit by a triangle of pink lights overhead hard to believe, I’m sure, but with a crowd of mostly 40-something couples in black rock t-shirts (yours truly included), the damned bar ran out of IPA before the band even started

does bill graham have air conditioning? going to the qotsa show tonight and haven’t been there on a hot day before

two nights of clean living, exercising again after a week of office work followed by a weekend house guest, plus a new pillow top on the bed, fell asleep at 9:30, did not wake up until 5:45.

i will learn nothing from this pleasant experience.

Hosting my kid’s birthday party yesterday answering a friend’s question, “so how do you know all of these kids?”

“Well that kid is so and so, they went to pre-school together. And that kid is so and so, they are in TK together. That kid in the red shirt is, ah, jeeze, a friend’s kid who we see all the time but I’m completely blanking on their name"

She says, “Yeah, that’s so and so.”

I say, "right, I forgot.”

Then I realize I’m talking to the kid in the red shirt’s mom.

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

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