As a fun thought experiment, every time I hear a car alarm going off in the city, I think to myself: Wow, our great Mayor, London Breed, who is a car, must really love San Francisco. There she is, living her best life, occupying a parking spot, honking her horn with devotion.
Honk! Honk! Honk!
So inspiring! 🤗🌁
michael moritz is immune to spoonerism and thus an unstoppable foe
look
“michael moritz”
see? doesn’t work
christ, what an asshole
I’ve only ever read one other collection of stories that was so well assembled I chased the editor before the various authors therein and that was Otto Penzler.
So, if Black Water looks fun to you (it was for me!), I also recommend Penzler’s collections: “The Best American Mystery Stories of the Twentieth Century”, “The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century”, and “The Best American Noir of the Century” ( https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/12471.Otto_Penzler?utf8=✓&sort=popularity)
twelfth book of '23 for me, "Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature” ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53080.Black_Water I started a Bookwyrm and posted there too but, alas no one there has reviewed it yet), edited by Alberto Manguel. 72 fantastic stories in a door stop of a paper back (at least that’s how I read it), each one with a contextual introduction, and organized into themes.
I’m now looking forward to starting the second one Manguel collected, Black Water 2.
Previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109372394967950916
on the home stretch (about a dozen stories or 200 pages left) and then I added “Black Water 2” to the to-read pile
One of the fun things about the older stories is that when you like them you can just find and share them:
THE GREY ONES
(1953)
J. B. PRIESTLEY
“Little Lebowski Thirsty Strivers”
friday night is pizza night for junior (and I) and I’ve pretty much got his favorite NY style pepperoni dialed in now, this was perfect
https://techbrosf.weebly.com/fentalife.html that’s numberwang!
the flowers my wife gave me for our wedding anniversary has ranunculus in it and 1. cool, never noticed this kind of flower before 2. what a fun name to say
ranunculus!
eleventh book, Emily St. John Mandel’s "Sea of Tranquility” ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45754981-the-glass-hotel)
More of a novella really, and while I have a pithy “oh it’s like this” comparison I’ll resist sharing the spoiler. I will say that I wish I’d read her previous book, “The Glass Hotel” first because they seem to share characters.
Anyway, yeah, “Station 11” author, if you liked that you’ll like this.
