pizza slow (high quality)

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

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)

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

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”

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

silly nonsense update, i’ve completed the seventy or eighty prologues to The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (The First Good Novel) by Macedonio Fernández and would like to congratulate myself for not posting out of context paragraphs of it this entire time like this one, which it is full of. now to start the novel itself

three paragraphs of mid prologue boasting, thanking readers of bad posts for staying committed to reading posts while waiting for the first good post to come along, of which this is but one of dozens of prologues, and thanking the bad posters for posting all the bad posts, which keep said readers reading, because this is why they will still be readers who read said first good post

one of the guitarists I Patreon, Mr. Tabs, just did post of Weezer’s Buddy Holly and the video they produced for it ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAMDhuL2TUw&t=9s) has a killer opening for 90s kids

The post on their site: http://www.mrtabs.com/guitar-tab/weezer-buddy-holly/

seventh book: “Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters” by Richard P. Rumelt.

Read this one for work and had a few people I’m “doing strategy” at work with read it too. They generally like it a lot so far.

I’m a big hater of most business (generally: airport) books full of hindsight, anecdote cherry picking and etc. This one has all of those things, but reads more like a memoir, which helps a lot. Anyway, I finished it. Parts were good, even.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11721966-good-strategy-bad-strategy

The cover of "Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters" by Richard P. Rumelt. Bisected from the bottom left corner to the top right corner, white on the left under Good Strategy in black, and black on the right under Bad Strategy in gold.

changelog.txt

replaced the 09-42 string sets on the strat, tele, and reverend with 11-48

Pedagogy of the Homophone