pizza slow (high quality)

first day of public school for junior (t. k. at Flynn) and well, well, well, if it isn’t my old nemesis, the prison-wall face with ever-changing hands which slow down the more you glance at them. slower and slower, slower and slower. but to look away is impossible

photograph of the clock high up on the wall in a public school classroom

the real best part though? I bought both 1 and 2 used as paperbacks and they are both about 1000 pages and about 70-90 stories but Black Water 2 was printed on much lighter paper than Black Water, which made holding the damned thing open to read much less uncomfortable.

16: “Black Water 2, More Tales of the Fantastic” loved it, full of surprises and delights from authors I’ve never heard of and authors most have — Arthur Conan Doyle, F Scott Fitzgerald, E B White, Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margret Atwood, George Bernard Shaw , Arthur C Lark) — and stories too , like Melville’s Bartleby.

"The Complete Gentleman” turned me onto Amos Tutuola, who I’m now reading in full.

And a story from Isabell Allende?! Nice.

previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110403938932091902

the paperback cover of Black Water 2, another creepy detail from the same painting used for the cover of Black Water. previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110403938932091902

snoop dog holding a joint, laughing, looking right, wearing a gray winter cap and white and tan striped scarf

split shotsleft: the paperback nyrb cover of “Autobiography of a Corpse” by, which is on my to-read pile (after I finish my life in the bush of ghosts and the palm-wine drinkard)right: a black and white photograph of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky wearing spectacles looking to the left in disbelief, as if looking at both the cover of his book, and snoop

the only challenge coin i’ve ever kept

photo of a challenge coin in my palm, a light blue field with a white daisy with a pink center in the middle, and the words Live top left, Love top right, and Laugh bottom center

finally signing up for tsa [spits on the ground] pre and mad about this form question

A screen shot of one question on the form which I waffled on before the everloving wife told me what she thought the right answer was :( Hair Color“Gray or partially gray”

[TMBG voice] there’s only two parties in me, and I’m heading to the third

Least favorite usually-reactionary move is when they say they are against something for the preposterous reason of, not-getting-it.

“I don’t get it.”

If you don’t get it, why not be FOR it until you do, or at least get the heck out of the way, knuckleheads.

it is so weird how having hobbies is coped with by randos at parties who I assume are just thinking out loud

“oh, you’re a ___ guy?"

alright, hold your horses, no, don’t have that kind of attention span. I’m also mildly interested in and but don’t try to identify as into eight or nine other things, alright?

more like sunburn streets