My go to red sauce for two starts with the oil: a half cup, a quarter cup, and an eighth cup, to extract garlic, basil, and pepper, to fry the tomatoes, and to finish with butter and cheese, respectively
Figure 1. the half with a head of garlic, large pinches of red pepper flakes, and soon (missing), four full stalks of basil in a small sauce pan.Figure 2. the quarter, w/pepper flakes, for the tomatoes.Figure 3. the eighth to finish, missing: eight chiffonaded basil leaves, salt to taste.
Egan’s political and hard science (the bulk of this set) stories are my favorites while the atheist ones like the title story “Oceanic” are probably more interesting to previously religious people, which I never was. I’ve always found faith to be entirely inscrutable, so exploring losing it is kinda just more of that to me?
Figure 2. the current "Oceaninc" paperback cover, mostly black with sepia colored imagery of something abstract (maybe from a microscope of some kind) covered by the authors name in large white distressed italic capital sans partially filled with a yellow liquid (that could be photographed vegetable oil, idk).
Tacked a few days before a wedding to visit burlington, vermont for a day (lovely) and stay in a lake house on upper saranac lake (pictured, also lovely) for a two
Figure 1. upper saranac lake, 150 aqi, a small sail boat named "She Troll" anchored in the right foreground.Figure 2. a lake house on upper saranac lake, side view, flower gardens surround the path to the porch, lane in the bottom right.Figure 3. a map of the north east coast of north america including washington dc, new york, boston, toronto, and montreal, a blue dot near the center indicating about where we stayed.Figure 4. peony.Figure 5. idk, a kind of lily?Figure 6. pink flowers, idk what kind!Figure 7. daisies?
Had to “Draw a bunny" for a work training thing and there weren’t any rules so I printed someone else’s garfield sonic chimera, placed the paper out over my ipad, and used an apple pencil to trace their illustration into a notes.app note.
nothing about this is mine except for the ears, tail, and color
Figure 1. a garfield-sonic-bunny illustration bastardization I lined in apple notes over another artists’s illustartion with garfield’s legs, crossed arms, head, and stripes, Sonic’s spikes and shoes, and (my only additions) a rabbits ears and tail, watercolored with gray fur and carrot-orange shoes.
afaik there is no legitimate other reason for the center lane to even exist. Lefts from Valencia are not causing traffic jams like lefts off of east bound Cesar Chavez do
Given they can just as easily double park on the new death-lane, why didn’t the city extend the death-lane to Mission??
the center lane should instead be an overhead-wire trolly (modern or historical, w/e) that just bounces between mission and market all day long, back and forth, back and forth. I wonder what the headways would be with such a short route and where the shunting or passing spots might fit?
I had to buy a new suit to wear to friend’s wedding because I’ve been [smug pause] working out often enough that my size 40 jacket doesn’t fit anymore. turns out i’m a 42 now.
