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  1. 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
    Figure 1. Link preview of https://kellylink.net/books/get-in-trouble, "Get in Trouble - Kelly Link".

    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
    Figure 2. Link preview of https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110403938932091902, "gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)".
    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
    Figure 3. Link preview of https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110899731695137550, "gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)".
    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 4. 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.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 24, 2024 - 12:05 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/24/112147741477243985/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/24/112147741477243985/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  2. 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
    Figure 1. Link preview of https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62052321-titanium-noir, "Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #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.
    Figure 2. 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
    Figure 3. Link preview of https://kellylink.net/books/stranger-things-happen-old, "Stranger Things Happen - Kelly Link".

    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 4. 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.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 16, 2024 - 10:59 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/16/112107846021665865/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/16/112107846021665865/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  3. 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.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 13, 2024 - 2:43 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/13/112088906799371151/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/13/112088906799371151/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  4. 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.”

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 08, 2024 - 6:07 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/08/112061399817796863/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/08/112061399817796863/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  5. 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.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 07, 2024 - 2:35 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/07/112054901515078201/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/07/112054901515078201/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  6. 🏁 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).
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon March 03, 2024 - 8:24 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/03/03/112033625093612349/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/03/03/112033625093612349/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  7. Just learned that I’m supposed to have an ascending-horn-punctuated introduction of my achievements and a. k. a.s, fml https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3hnm4Shybg

    Introduction By Fats Gonder/ Opening Fanfare (Live At The Apollo Theater, 1962)Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupIntroduction By Fats Gonder/ Opening Fanfare (Live At The Apollo Theater, 1962) · James BrownJames Brown Live At ...YouTube
    Figure 1. Link preview of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3hnm4Shybg, "Introduction By Fats Gonder/ Opening Fanfare (Live At The Apollo Theater, 1962)".
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 29, 2024 - 9:30 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/29/112016897446343899/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/29/112016897446343899/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  8. It’s still fun to be surprised my own browser word replacement filters. I’ve got half a dozen going right now, loving it.

    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 27, 2024 - 3:47 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/27/112001392877844540/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/27/112001392877844540/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  9. Another nice day to try SFMTA recommended bike routes ( https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/pdf_map/2021/06/sfmta_recommendedbikeroutes_0.pdf), so this time I went southeast: Chavez to Illinois to Cargo, side-quest out Heron’s Head Park and Hunter’s Point, back on the route to Mendel, Palou, Keith, Carrol, out to Candlestick Point, reverse back to Jenning, Paul, Bayshore, and Chavez home.

    Lovely!

    picture of the SFMTA pdf of recommended routes of the southeast corner of San Francisco
    Figure 1. picture of the SFMTA pdf of recommended routes of the southeast corner of San Francisco.

    hiked Bayview hill yesterday, today was very much a “I want to go down there” result

    photograph, view south from the top of bayview hill to oyster point and SFO Airport
    Figure 2. photograph, view south from the top of bayview hill to oyster point and SFO Airport.
    photograph of the parking lot for the now demolished Candlestick Park stadium from the Bayview Hill Trail
    Figure 3. photograph of the parking lot for the now demolished Candlestick Park stadium from the Bayview Hill Trail.
    Photograph of San Francisco from the initial climb of the Bayview Hill trail
    Figure 4. Photograph of San Francisco from the initial climb of the Bayview Hill trail.
    Photograph of Bayview Hill, reversing the second in the series, above from the parking lot of Candlestick Park. Most the actual lot and “Hunter’s Point Expressway” around the hill at this point are just a fenced off lake and are inaccessible.
    Figure 5. Photograph of Bayview Hill, reversing the second in the series, above from the parking lot of Candlestick Park. Most the actual lot and “Hunter’s Point Expressway” around the hill at this point are just a fenced off lake and are inaccessible.
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 25, 2024 - 10:56 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/25/111994588712008098/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/25/111994588712008098/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  10. Sixth book of 2024: “How Infrastructure Works: Inside the systems that shape our world.”, by Deb Chachra ( https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612711/how-infrastructure-works-by-deb-chachra/).

    How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra: 9780593086599 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece.” —Ed Yong, author of...PenguinRandomhouse.com
    Figure 1. Link preview of https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612711/how-infrastructure-works-by-deb-chachra/, "How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra: 9780593086599 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books".

    I feel like more than a few people I follow posted about this over the past year so I eventually followed suit. More memoir (again!) than I’m normally into but just enough history, novelty, and new-to-me theory to be pretty good after all.

    The hardback cover of “How Infrastructure Works: Inside the systems that shape our world.”, by Deb Chachra, as I read it. White Helvetica-lookin’ title, subtitle, and author name in equal large sizes and weights over black asphalt spray painted with circles and arrows in orange, pink, and yellow. That infrastructure / utility workers paint the ground in specific colors in the U.S. is actually detailed in the book, so this is one of those rare cases where the cover artist read the book and wasn’t overruled by the publisher to do some other stupid thing instead. Huzzah!
    Figure 2. The hardback cover of “How Infrastructure Works: Inside the systems that shape our world.”, by Deb Chachra, as I read it. White Helvetica-lookin’ title, subtitle, and author name in equal large sizes and weights over black asphalt spray painted with circles and arrows in orange, pink, and yellow. That infrastructure / utility workers paint the ground in specific colors in the U.S. is actually detailed in the book, so this is one of those rare cases where the cover artist read the book and wasn’t overruled by the publisher to do some other stupid thing instead. Huzzah!
    Posted on Mastodon over two years agoon February 20, 2024 - 3:44 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2024/02/20/111961745828233019/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2024/02/20/111961745828233019/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.
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