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  1. 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 Hall of Justice Juror Group On Standby 611 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽

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    a cropped and oversaturated photograph out of a window of a rainbow over the mission in san francisco.
    Figure 1. a cropped and oversaturated photograph out of a window of a rainbow over the mission in san francisco..
  3. Ninth book of 2024 (is counting like this annoying? idk, it’s all one mutable thread, so, whatever): “Get in Trouble", by Kelly Link ( https://kellylink.net/books/get-in-trouble).

    Get in Trouble - Kelly LinkPaperback edition: February 9, 2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Fiction “A collection of short stories in which a writer with a fertile and often fabulist imagination explores inner lies and odd corners of reality.” Indies Choice Book of the Year Finalist Time Magazine Top 10 Fiction of 2015 · NPR 2015 Great Reads · Slate […]Kelly Link (opens in a new tab)

    More great stories, some of which, but fewer than those in “Stranger Things Happen” would fit right in with those collected in “Black Water” ( https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110403938932091902) and “Black Water 2” ( https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110899731695137550).

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 2 images 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/109372394967950916Mastodon (opens in a new tab)gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image 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/110403938932091902Mastodon (opens in a new tab)
    the trade paperback cover of “Get in Trouble”, by Kelly Link, as I read it.An painted illustration of a small farm house in a clearing in a wood; a woman in a red shirt and jeans approaches the house up the front walk while two foxes approach from the left in front of a healthy fruit tree, the dead and leafless mirror of which is on the right. The entire illustration is upside down and the title, painted in call capital white handwriting over the sky is surrounded by and set on by black birds.
    Figure 1. the trade paperback cover of “Get in Trouble”, by Kelly Link, as I read it.An painted illustration of a small farm house in a clearing in a wood; a woman in a red shirt and jeans approaches the house up the front walk while two foxes approach from the left in front of a healthy fruit tree, the dead and leafless mirror of which is on the right. The entire illustration is upside down and the title, painted in call capital white handwriting over the sky is surrounded by and set on by black birds..
  4. Seventh book of 2024: “Titanium Noir", by Nick Harkaway ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62052321-titanium-noir). What it says on the tin and knows it. Spoonfuls of chewy metaphors.

    Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandl…Goodreads (opens in a new tab)
    cover of “Titanium Noir”, by Nick Harkaway, as I read it, hardback (which is black). Black block stencil TITANIUM along the top over a black stencil fedora containing a shiny metallic head, dripping onto more black stencil NOIR over a brilliant green field. The authors name and other blurb elements including a quote from William Gibson are in a monospace console font.
    Figure 1. cover of “Titanium Noir”, by Nick Harkaway, as I read it, hardback (which is black). Black block stencil TITANIUM along the top over a black stencil fedora containing a shiny metallic head, dripping onto more black stencil NOIR over a brilliant green field. The authors name and other blurb elements including a quote from William Gibson are in a monospace console font..

    eighth book of 2024: “Stranger Things Happen", by Kelly Link ( https://kellylink.net/books/stranger-things-happen-old).

    Stranger Things Happen - Kelly Link“Pity the poor librarians who have to slap a sticker on Kelly Link’s genre-bending, mind-blowing masterpiece of the imagination, Stranger Things Happen.” —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia, for NPR’s You Must Read This This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link, takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and […]Kelly Link (opens in a new tab)

    So good, I’m grabbing another collection of Link’s, "Get in Trouble”, immediately.

    the paperback cover of “stranger things happen”, by Kelly Link, as I read it. A mid-century lookin’ color illustration of a blonde woman in a blue blouse, tan skirt, and black heels carries a flashlight through a dark wood.
    Figure 2. the paperback cover of “stranger things happen”, by Kelly Link, as I read it. A mid-century lookin’ color illustration of a blonde woman in a blue blouse, tan skirt, and black heels carries a flashlight through a dark wood..
  5. This coat is reversible and I’ve been liking it both right-side-out and inside-out so the collar is permanently in cooler-than-me casual rebellion

    iphone selfie of me in our wall length mirror by the front door in a pink and blue flannel lined jacket over a sneppy t-shirt (fake snoopy), jeans, pride rainbow / white hi-top vans, in front of a joan cornella booty-poop print on the wall. there’s a huge red wall calendar for march taped to the door and an eames color-ball coat rack full of coats and masks next to me
    Figure 1. iphone selfie of me in our wall length mirror by the front door in a pink and blue flannel lined jacket over a sneppy t-shirt (fake snoopy), jeans, pride rainbow / white hi-top vans, in front of a joan cornella booty-poop print on the wall. there’s a huge red wall calendar for march taped to the door and an eames color-ball coat rack full of coats and masks next to me.
  6. I love views of downtown as I enter the city afar, and from hilltops and rooftops in the neighborhoods. But I always also imagine the following dialog with myself:

    "Wow, hard to believe people built all that over there”

    "Yeah, pretty neat! Do you want to go there? Maybe into one of those cool buildings?”

    “Nope.”

    “Do the people who live there like it?

    "Nobody lives there.”

    “OK, but at least the buildings are used to good stuff? Right?"

    “No, not really.”

  7. Laying in bed “watching tv” on my laptop, but about to close it and go to sleep. it is 8:50PM.

    Screen grab of Antiques Roadshow in Plex. A guest on the right in a yellow polo shirt and a tan derby hat is talking with his hands about how he acquired the antique he has brought for appraisal. The roadshow staff, in a vertical stripe polo shirt listens attentively. Between them, propped on a table, is three drawings mounted on a blue felt board. top center: the color pen and watercolor on paper of the original sofa background from the first season of Beavis and Butthead. Below left, a pen and paper drawing of Butthead. Below right, a pen and paper drawing of Beavis.The appraiser estimates the sofa to be $1,000, auction price, and the two drawings that are not colored to be $1,000 together, or $500 a piece.
    Figure 1. Screen grab of Antiques Roadshow in Plex. A guest on the right in a yellow polo shirt and a tan derby hat is talking with his hands about how he acquired the antique he has brought for appraisal. The roadshow staff, in a vertical stripe polo shirt listens attentively. Between them, propped on a table, is three drawings mounted on a blue felt board. top center: the color pen and watercolor on paper of the original sofa background from the first season of Beavis and Butthead. Below left, a pen and paper drawing of Butthead. Below right, a pen and paper drawing of Beavis.The appraiser estimates the sofa to be $1,000, auction price, and the two drawings that are not colored to be $1,000 together, or $500 a piece..
  8. 🏁 what I’m considering Mission Dolores, Castro, and Eureka Valley, bound by Market, Valencia, and 20th.

    Glen Park next for real this time, I think. Or Potrero Hill. Maybe both.

    A San Francisco street map centering the area bound by 101, 280, and Market, on which every street has 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, and Eureka Valley. (I think of the Castro north of market as Corona Heights or Duboce Triangle).Along the way this time I filled in lots of alleys I had skipped in Noe Valley because walking on Valencia is getting pretty tedious (and I’ve lived on or a block off of it for 14 years).
    Figure 1. A San Francisco street map centering the area bound by 101, 280, and Market, on which every street has 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, and Eureka Valley. (I think of the Castro north of market as Corona Heights or Duboce Triangle).Along the way this time I filled in lots of alleys I had skipped in Noe Valley because walking on Valencia is getting pretty tedious (and I’ve lived on or a block off of it for 14 years)..
  9. It’s still fun to be surprised my own browser word replacement filters. I’ve got half a dozen going right now, loving it.