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  1. Lol lmao that ‘judgement’ is correctly spelled ‘judgment’ in some uses and visa versa

    c’mon

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon August 20, 2023 - 3:17 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/08/20/110922606597185914/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/08/20/110922606597185914/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  2. 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

    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.

    current paperback cover of the plam-wine drinkard, and my life in the bush of hosts, flat orange on the top half and a green leaf motif on the bottom half with black text over both and abstract-ish opposing-half paper collage of what looks like an someone’s exquisite-corpse project (you can kinda make out a head on the top half and if that’s a head, maybe a body on the bottom half?)
    Figure 1. current paperback cover of the plam-wine drinkard, and my life in the bush of hosts, flat orange on the top half and a green leaf motif on the bottom half with black text over both and abstract-ish opposing-half paper collage of what looks like an someone’s exquisite-corpse project (you can kinda make out a head on the top half and if that’s a head, maybe a body on the bottom half?).
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon August 19, 2023 - 6:06 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/08/19/110917608838805292/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/08/19/110917608838805292/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  3. Fake-warning “a man recommending a podcast"

    I had intended to stop consuming “the left stays losing" stuff for a bit because it is so g d depressing but https://the-santiago-boys.com is really, really good

    The Santiago BoysThis is a podcast about a continent that dared to dream big - and challenge the power of Big Tech before Big Tech was a thing.the-santiago-boys.com

    hashtags Allende EvgenyMorozov StaffordBeer ThePurposeOfASystemIsWhatItDoes Nixon CIA blah blah

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon August 18, 2023 - 1:24 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/08/18/110910836509794170/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/08/18/110910836509794170/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  4. Very belatedly getting into Unknown Mortal Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-36lCKovBg

    Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Ffunny Ffrends (OFFICIAL)Official UMO "Ffunny Ffrends" VideoYouTube
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon August 17, 2023 - 7:10 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/08/17/110906535981342658/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/08/17/110906535981342658/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  5. Also, re-reading Bartleby (the original anti-makin’ copies guy) reminded me that 1) he has office mates named Turkey, Nippers, and Ginger Nut (tag yourself) and 2) “I would prefer not to” is only his first catch phrase, once he wore that out he pivoted to "I am not particular.” which is also delicious.

    Screen shot of an SNL “Makin’ Copies” sketch featuring Phil Hartman, (RIP), Julia Sweeney, Kevin Bacon, and Rob Schneider
    Figure 1. Screen shot of an SNL “Makin’ Copies” sketch featuring Phil Hartman, (RIP), Julia Sweeney, Kevin Bacon, and Rob Schneider.
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon August 16, 2023 - 8:35 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/08/16/110901208694241040/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/08/16/110901208694241040/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  6. Had mini-split air conditioning installed in our place last month, where i work from home, at great expense and wall-destruction, and now that it’s summer in the west bay I’m sitting in the cat bird seat

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon August 16, 2023 - 6:38 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/08/16/110900749189875889/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/08/16/110900749189875889/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  7. I think merchant associations should have a seat at the table sike!

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon August 16, 2023 - 4:17 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/08/16/110900192722926610/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/08/16/110900192722926610/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  8. First day of public school for junior (t. k. at Flynn) and well, well, well, if it isn’t my old nemesis, the prison-wall face with ever-changing hands which slow down the more you glance at them. slower and slower, slower and slower. but to look away is impossible

    photograph of the clock high up on the wall in a public school classroom
    Figure 1. photograph of the clock high up on the wall in a public school classroom.
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon August 16, 2023 - 3:54 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/08/16/110900103909573736/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/08/16/110900103909573736/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  9. The real best part though? I bought both 1 and 2 used as paperbacks and they are both about 1000 pages and about 70-90 stories but Black Water 2 was printed on much lighter paper than Black Water, which made holding the damned thing open to read much less uncomfortable.

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon August 16, 2023 - 2:22 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/08/16/110899741113305936/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/08/16/110899741113305936/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  10. 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/110403938932091902

    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
    the paperback cover of Black Water 2, another creepy detail from the same painting used for the cover of Black Water. previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110403938932091902
    Figure 1. the paperback cover of Black Water 2, another creepy detail from the same painting used for the cover of Black Water. previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110403938932091902.
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon August 16, 2023 - 2:20 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/08/16/110899731695137550/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/08/16/110899731695137550/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.
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