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  1. 13th book of 2024: “Bliss Montage”, by Ling Ma ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60243188-bliss-montage").

    Bliss MontageA new creation by the author of Severance, the stories …Goodreads

    I forget why this got my attention but I will cop to the “by the author of Severance” blurb helping more than somewhat, not realizing that it’s a novel that predates the show by four years and is completely unrelated to it.

    What a lovely mistake! The stories were excellent and I will probably grab the novel too. Warning: maybe check the content before starting on the first two stories?

    the paperback cover of "Bliss Montage", by Ling Ma, a close up color photo of a clear plastic bag of oranges, so close only one full orange is visible while about 9 others are cropped in various ways and the size of the bag is not determined, while the title, authors name, and blurb are overlayed in all caps grotesque distorted as if it were printed on the clear plastic, to nice effect.BLISSMONTAGEStoriesLING MAAuthor ofSeverance
    Figure 1. the paperback cover of "Bliss Montage", by Ling Ma, a close up color photo of a clear plastic bag of oranges, so close only one full orange is visible while about 9 others are cropped in various ways and the size of the bag is not determined, while the title, authors name, and blurb are overlayed in all caps grotesque distorted as if it were printed on the clear plastic, to nice effect.BLISSMONTAGEStoriesLING MAAuthor ofSeverance.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 21, 2024 - 6:28 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/21/112310622617412932/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/21/112310622617412932/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  2. Saw Bill Frisell’s solo show last night in Berkeley and it was pretty trippy for me that he opened his 8PM set with You Are My Sunshine, which is the song my wife sings to our kid at his bed time, which is 8PM. it’s like I hadn’t left home.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBtjKTEHKUM his performance of it last night had a lot more skronk on it, but, this, generally

    Bill Frisell - "You Are My Sunshine" | Fretboard JournalBill Frisell performs "You Are My Sunshine" at the Fretboard Journal magazine HQ. On this track, Bill is playing his heavily modified Fender Telecaster with ...YouTube
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 19, 2024 - 3:54 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/19/112298694460907379/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/19/112298694460907379/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  3. Https://web.archive.org/web/20240413115023/http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/sf-traffic-ticket-decline-data-19383950.php

    Charts reveal stunning trend in S.F. traffic tickets — and point to huge challenge for citySan Francisco has seen a decade-long drop in traffic citations, a trend that police have vowed to reverse. A Chronicle analysis shows the drop in detail.San Francisco Chronicle

    doomed

    infrastructure cannot be corrected by process controls

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 16, 2024 - 2:41 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/16/112281417927596446/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/16/112281417927596446/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  4. I’ve never used a modal single-letter keyboard command in Slack on purpose.

    Screenshot of the context menu for a message in slack scrollback detailing all the mistakes you can make if you put Slack the message-in-scrollback mode, specifically consisting of these accidents:Mark unread URemind me about this > Forward message... FCopy link LPin to channel PStart a huddle in thread...Edit message E
    Figure 1. Screenshot of the context menu for a message in slack scrollback detailing all the mistakes you can make if you put Slack the message-in-scrollback mode, specifically consisting of these accidents:Mark unread URemind me about this > Forward message... FCopy link LPin to channel PStart a huddle in thread...Edit message E.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 15, 2024 - 7:24 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/15/112276869709821957/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/15/112276869709821957/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  5. Gravely googling: reliable source of pearl onions in sf fresh or frozen

    it’s only coq au vin, small shallots will do

    mise for coq au vin: a cutting board with diced carrots on top of a board scraper, quartered mushrooms, smashed garlic, peeled shallots, minced parsley, and diced potatoes (for a side). left to right behind the board: a few cups of broth with gelatin in a measuring cup, a peeler, a bottle of red wine, a compost container, ands a chef knife
    Figure 1. mise for coq au vin: a cutting board with diced carrots on top of a board scraper, quartered mushrooms, smashed garlic, peeled shallots, minced parsley, and diced potatoes (for a side). left to right behind the board: a few cups of broth with gelatin in a measuring cup, a peeler, a bottle of red wine, a compost container, ands a chef knife.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 13, 2024 - 2:06 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/13/112264294393665142/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/13/112264294393665142/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  6. Pave, Pave, PAVE.

    https://alt.pavethe.earth

    alt.pave.the.earth faqalt.pavethe.earth
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 11, 2024 - 2:27 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/11/112253054030262504/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/11/112253054030262504/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  7. 12th (I am not tryna spell "twelth?f?”th, these stories deserve to be 13th, alas) book of 2024: “Magic for Beginners”, by Kelly Link ( https://kellylink.net/books/magic-for-beginners-old, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66657.Magic_for_Beginners). Yep.

    Magic for Beginners - Kelly LinkRandom House re-released Magic for Beginners with a newly designed cover and an added conversation between Joe Hill and Kelly Link. Perfect for readers of George Saunders, Karen Russell, Neil Gaiman, and Aimee Bender, Magic for Beginners is an exquisite, dreamlike dispatch from a virtuoso storyteller who can do seemingly anything. Kelly Link reconstructs modern […]Kelly Link

    Goth surrealist tangential punny folklore ghost stories? Idk what the hell I just read and if it was a TV show I’d turn it off but I can read stuff like this all day long (and just did).

    the paperback cover of “Magic for Beginners”, Stories by Kelly Link. An illustration of a woman with black hair parted down the middle, a long black doubled-over pearl necklace, and multiple rings and black wristbands in a black t-shirt holds a ferret? looking left (pretty goth imo), over a blue background. A sky blue rectangle with the corners clipped (as if it was a card tucked into cuts in the cover) is covered w/ the title in all caps sans, the authors name below in light blue over the blue background.Per Link’s website: The cover is modeled on Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine.”
    Figure 1. the paperback cover of “Magic for Beginners”, Stories by Kelly Link. An illustration of a woman with black hair parted down the middle, a long black doubled-over pearl necklace, and multiple rings and black wristbands in a black t-shirt holds a ferret? looking left (pretty goth imo), over a blue background. A sky blue rectangle with the corners clipped (as if it was a card tucked into cuts in the cover) is covered w/ the title in all caps sans, the authors name below in light blue over the blue background.Per Link’s website: The cover is modeled on Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine.”.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 11, 2024 - 12:28 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/11/112249752136235849/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/11/112249752136235849/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  8. Had to move the adirondack i was sunning myself in about fifteen feet into a clearing because the trees above where it was initially are so full of bees that every other thought i had was “buzz”

    photo of a Sequoia grove to me east, the rising sun above, blue skies behind
    Figure 1. photo of a Sequoia grove to me east, the rising sun above, blue skies behind.

    not helped by this 🐝 being 🐝what i was reading at the time https://kellylink.net/books/magic-for-beginners-old/the-hortlak

    The Hortlak - Kelly LinkEric was night, and batu was day. The girl, Charley, was the moon. Every night, she drove past the All-Night in her long, noisy, green Chevy, a dog hanging out the passenger window. It wasn’t ever the same dog, although they all had the same blissful expression. They were doomed, but they didn’t know it. […]Kelly Link

    me: time to read a creepy story with bugs in it

    bugs: ugh, hey, hi, so, uh, am i in that one?

    me: 🙄 yes

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 09, 2024 - 5:28 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/09/112242440691555636/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/09/112242440691555636/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  9. 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️

    🏁 what I’m considering Glen Park and Diamond Heights, bound by Portola, Diamond Heights Blvd, San Jose, Bosworth, and O’Shaughnessy Blvd

    🏁 what I’m considering Potrero Hill, bound by Division, 280, Cesar Chavez, and 101

    A San Francisco street map centering the area bound by Market, 3rd street, 280, and Twin Peaks, on which most streets have a meandering purple GPS path I’ve logged on it, generally completing (in order I walked it) Noe Valley, Bernal Heights, the Inner Mission, Mission Dolores, the Castro, Eureka Valley, Glen Park, Diamond Heights, and Potrero Hill.
    Figure 1. A San Francisco street map centering the area bound by Market, 3rd street, 280, and Twin Peaks, on which most streets have a meandering purple GPS path I’ve logged on it, generally completing (in order I walked it) Noe Valley, Bernal Heights, the Inner Mission, Mission Dolores, the Castro, Eureka Valley, Glen Park, Diamond Heights, and Potrero Hill..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 08, 2024 - 7:57 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/08/112237364935529933/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/08/112237364935529933/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  10. Tenth book of 2024: “Pnin", by Vladimir Nabokov. Nice.

    the current Vintage International paperback cover of “Pnin” by Vladimir Nabovkov, as I read it:a black leather frame that is set on and shadows a white field contains a bow tie constructed of two or three pieces of maroon paper covered with the lowercase typewritten letters p, n, i, and n in repetitive 8 letter blocks is affixed to white board with sewing pins.and a strip of cream paper with “Pnin” typewritten below,
    Figure 1. the current Vintage International paperback cover of “Pnin” by Vladimir Nabovkov, as I read it:a black leather frame that is set on and shadows a white field contains a bow tie constructed of two or three pieces of maroon paper covered with the lowercase typewritten letters p, n, i, and n in repetitive 8 letter blocks is affixed to white board with sewing pins.and a strip of cream paper with “Pnin” typewritten below,.

    eleventh book of 2024: “Trust”, by Herman Diaz. ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58210933)

    TrustAlternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593420317. An unpa…Goodreads

    Insulting to anarchists. “Obama liked this!” should have turned me away, but i was a fool.

    Meh. Almost DNF’d about ⅔ of the way through but I’m on vacation and had an hour to slog through.

    On the bright side, when I drop it off at one of those little free libraries maybe someone will have left a classic I can trade up for.

    The paperback cover of "Trust", by Hernan Diaz, as i read it, except my copy as the pulitzer prize winner seal on it.
    Figure 2. The paperback cover of "Trust", by Hernan Diaz, as i read it, except my copy as the pulitzer prize winner seal on it..
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon April 07, 2024 - 7:15 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/04/07/112231536310932156/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/04/07/112231536310932156/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.
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