Obviously not gonna happen but i should be able to take a drivers license equivalent exam and road test to earn the right to roll down the lower windows on muni buses and ride with my elbow hanging out, maybe stick a hand out to wave it in the breeze, and so on
We lose sun on our western-oriented patio around 3 or 3:30 in the afternoon this time of year but the summer sun sets just north enough to tag from around the other side of the building and hit the farthest northwest patio corner from 5:30 to 6:30PM before we lose it again and that sun patch is like my secret book nook to escape out to for one month a year. I love it.
It was kinda nice to get to civic center and not really find any electeds going on about some nonsense on a PA system, it was just like, well we’re here, that was nice, there’s the avakian revcom weirdos [wayne’s world wayne seeing-stacy-face] there’s the people from salt tabling, ok, well let’s walk back up market and see how long it is, wow this is a lot, very cool
ah well I guess that’s it, ok, cya, I’m gonna go get a beer, ok cya I’ve got plans, yeah cool, later
so stoked about the martian I didn’t notice spiderman
Figure 1. selfie, man (me) in a yellow camp shirt w/ flowers on it, red kn95 mask and black SF giants hat. behind me someone with a “save NPR” sign is dressed like the martians from sesame street who panic every time the phone rings trying to figure out what it isfurther in the distance someone in a spiderman costume pushes a bike.
Figure 2. Annotation in Hollander’s Inferno translation (https://archive.org/details/dante-dantes-the-divine-comedy-the-inferno-2012-dante-alighieri-robert-hollander-jean-hollander/page/n603/mode/2up) cropped to the note for lines 34-36, which says:34-36. For the history of the interpretation of this tercet, nowgenerally understood to indicate the presence in the "ante-inferno," orvestibule of hell, of the neutrals, those who never took a side, seeMazzoni (Mazz. 1967.1), pp. 355-67. And, for the existence of exactlysuch a "vestibule" in hell in the apocryphal Visio Pauli, describing St.Paul's descent to the netherworld, see Silverstein (Silv.1937.1). InPaul's vision (for the most recent text see Silv. 1997.1) there is a riverof flame separating "those who were neither hot nor cold" (Revelation3:15-16) from the other sinners. [return to English / Italian].Figure 3. Annotation in Hollander’s Inferno translation (https://archive.org/details/dante-dantes-the-divine-comedy-the-inferno-2012-dante-alighieri-robert-hollander-jean-hollander/page/n605/mode/2up) cropped to the note for lines 52-57, which says:52-57. Dante's essential technique for indicating the crucial moralfailures of his various groups of sinners is here before us for the firsttime. The neutrals, who never took a side, are portrayed as anorganized crowd following a banner: exactly what they were not inlife (e.g., the neutral angels who neither rebelled directly against Godnor stood with Him, but who kept to one side). And in this respect theneutrals are punished by being forced to assume a pose antithetic tothat which they struck in life. At the same time, the banner that theyfollow is the very essence of indeterminacy. Not only is there noidentifying sign on it, it is not held in the anchoring hand of anystandard-bearer; it is a parody of the standard raised before a body ofmen who follow a leader. Elsewhere we will encounter other suchsymbolic artifacts. In Dante's hell the punishment of sin involves theapplication of opposites and similarities. This form of just retributionis what Dante will later refer to as the contrapasso (Inf. XXVIII.142).[return to English / Italian].
A move I’ve noticed cool hip with-it conflict-avoidant people do which I’ve decided to try to do is to make more claims about my own experience than I normally would because it feels redundant or just a lot of work to do all the time
so instead of “you should __" or “people should __” I try to go with with “I have __ and here’s how it worked out for me, to me.”
I kinda remember being mad like twenty years ago that every other move needed to be considered with an “in my experience, __” prefix and this is how long it took me to connect it? wild
as a bonus, this helps me feel ok not passing along second-hand “advice" or information, or even posting much at all anymore
The Botkin theory is very plausible, and these critical essays from Boyd on the Nabokov mailing list is also a fun read (i’m on 3 of 9, made possible by reader mode in my browser, the archive newlines are a little weird).
(you know you are reading some real lore when you see the old “name-l” listserve decorator)
I never have any urge to post what I think about people like stephen miller on here because it would feel like bad smalltalk, just casual observations of a shared banality.
for some insane reason I instead am constantly not posting the same nonsense on linkedin, a website I don’t understand and dislike the need for, because “they” (??) need to hear it.
Working on learning to play Pancho and Lefty this with thumb and fingerpicks like Townes turned into "I wonder if there’s any Townes stuff on bandcamp?” (there is, including this Live at the Old Quarter release) turned into falling in love w/ the label, Fat Possum Records,’s ( https://fatpossum.com) motto (p good merch too):
Figure 2. Pic of a record I just took out of the carboard shipping box it’s laying on, on my kitchen island. Townes Van ZandtLive at The Old Quarter, Houston, TexasI ripped the clear plastic shrink wrap off as per, but laid it back on to get a pic of the label’s round sticker on it, which proclaims FAT POSSUM RECORDS and their .com in gold on black around the outter edge, and “We’re Trying Our Best” in a cute retro black on gold in the center, with the grocer’s quotes and everything.
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