Up all night worrying that we haven’t begun design let alone construction of a thousand foot tall colossus (my preferred design is a phoenix looking west) atop earthworks in the san francisco bay, which, as a long term serious thinker, is my only political issue
“there are only one shelter bed for every 15 people sleeping on the streets and some judge has the nerve—” Shut up! Shut up! What about the colossus?!
Getting really close to watching the video cassette of space balls the movie w/ my This Old House speed run, and it is terrible. I’m now skipping the interior design nonsense like I already skip any home alarm system nonsense.
“It’s so dark with all this wood paneling, so to brighten it up, we’re going to paint it all this true white, and the walls this more neutral blue/gray. To separate these two rooms, we had a local artisan make this barn door to hang on rollers.”
“Wow, it really does look like a barn door with these rails and stiles.", Norm said.
“And for this accent wall, we were thinking, shiplap.”
The corrupt frisco wallet inspector is still funny as hell https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/rodrigo-santos-sentenced-to-prison/
Rodrigo Santos sentenced to 30 months in prisonThe strange and terrible saga of Rodrigo Santos — the former city official, permit expediter and structural engineer who continued to work Former city official, permit expediter and engineer Rodrigo Santos was today sentenced to federal prisonMission Local (opens in a new tab)
Alright, “4321” has my attention, this is lovely
18th book of the year: “SPQR”, by Mary Beard
Wanted to read some history after the last few things. Kept seeing Beard press over the years, saw she has a new book out and grabbed a used copy of her old stuff instead.
lotta “assassinated for tyranny after proposing social and/or land use reforms” Kermit-confused-face.bmp
lotta good stuff on how normal people lived
next up, the most recent Paul Auster, “4321”, cya in like a month or two probably
Oh, one thing you’ve learned was against your will? must be nice!
Asleep by 9:15, wake up at 4, mentally review damage taken (doh) and given (oops) yesterday, pad down to the kitchen at 5, turn the lights on as dim as they go, make coffee, start to read scrollback and accruing damage for the day
get annoyed by the ambient noise the fridge is making, use a smart-switch to power off the fridge, replace it with ambient noise somebody else made, cozy up by the speaker https://schwebung.bandcamp.com/album/radiance
RADIANCE, by Stephan Mathieu31 track albumSchwebung (opens in a new tab)kid up at 5:40, we’re watching spiderman and doing the moves :||
Lol lmao that ‘judgement’ is correctly spelled ‘judgment’ in some uses and visa versa
c’mon
17th book of the year: “The Palm-Wine Drinkard” and “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” by Amos Tutuola ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/303496.The_Palm_Wine_Drinkard_My_Life_in_the_Bush_of_Ghosts)
The Palm-Wine Drinkard & My Life in the Bush of GhostsWhen Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard…Goodreads (opens in a new tab)The story I enjoyed in Black Water 2 was an excerpt from “The Palm-Wine Drinkard” (which is subtitled “and his dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads’ Town)
I preferred the drinkard because more of the stories in it seem like little self-contained myths. And of course I’m glad to now have a connection back to the Byrne/Eno album that I love.
