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  1. I haven’t gotten covid yet because of my positive mental attitude, which you can tell I have because I’m cracking trying to say this with a straight face

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon May 25, 2023 - 8:08 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/05/25/110431127908102699/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/05/25/110431127908102699/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  2. As a fun thought experiment, every time I hear a car alarm going off in the city, I think to myself: Wow, our great Mayor, London Breed, who is a car, must really love San Francisco. There she is, living her best life, occupying a parking spot, honking her horn with devotion.

    Honk! Honk! Honk!

    So inspiring! 🤗🌁

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon May 22, 2023 - 10:12 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/05/22/110414628437465871/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/05/22/110414628437465871/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  3. Michael moritz is immune to spoonerism and thus an unstoppable foe

    look

    “michael moritz”

    see? doesn’t work

    christ, what an asshole

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon May 21, 2023 - 6:09 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/05/21/110408012849694397/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/05/21/110408012849694397/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  4. 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.

    Black Water: The Book of Fantastic LiteratureThis huge anthology offers a kaleidoscope of brilliant …Goodreads

    I’m now looking forward to starting the second one Manguel collected, Black Water 2.

    Previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109372394967950916

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 2 images new to me used book, lovely inscriptionMastodon
    paperback cover of Black Water, the title in black over an illustration of three people in blue, green, and red tunics decreasingly obscured in waht look like doorways in a subway, part of a larger painting https://whitney.org/collection/works/3052
    Figure 1. paperback cover of Black Water, the title in black over an illustration of three people in blue, green, and red tunics decreasingly obscured in waht look like doorways in a subway, part of a larger painting https://whitney.org/collection/works/3052.
    The Subway is the best known of the figurative paintings George Tooker made in response to the social injustices and isolation of postwar urban society—paintings that find an analogue in the period’s existentialist philosophy. In The Subway, Tooker employed multiple vanishing points and sophisticated modeling to create an imagined world that is presented in a familiar urban setting. Whether closed off in tiled niches or walking down the long passageway, each androgynous, anxiety-ridden figure appears psychologically estranged, despite being physically close to others in the station. The central group of commuters is locked in a grid of the metal grating’s cast shadows, while the labyrinthine passages seem to lead nowhere, suspending the city’s inhabitants in a modern purgatory. As Tooker remarked, he chose the subway as the setting for this painting because it represented “a denial of the senses and a negation of life itself.” (https://whitney.org/collection/works/3052)
    Figure 2. The Subway is the best known of the figurative paintings George Tooker made in response to the social injustices and isolation of postwar urban society—paintings that find an analogue in the period’s existentialist philosophy. In The Subway, Tooker employed multiple vanishing points and sophisticated modeling to create an imagined world that is presented in a familiar urban setting. Whether closed off in tiled niches or walking down the long passageway, each androgynous, anxiety-ridden figure appears psychologically estranged, despite being physically close to others in the station. The central group of commuters is locked in a grid of the metal grating’s cast shadows, while the labyrinthine passages seem to lead nowhere, suspending the city’s inhabitants in a modern purgatory. As Tooker remarked, he chose the subway as the setting for this painting because it represented “a denial of the senses and a negation of life itself.” (https://whitney.org/collection/works/3052).
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon May 21, 2023 - 12:53 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/05/21/110403938932091902/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/05/21/110403938932091902/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  5. On the home stretch (about a dozen stories or 200 pages left) and then I added “Black Water 2” to the to-read pile

    One of the fun things about the older stories is that when you like them you can just find and share them:

    THE GREY ONES

    (1953)

    J. B. PRIESTLEY

    https://ia904606.us.archive.org/31/items/michael-collins-piper-on-the-grey-ones-by-j.-b.-priestley/The%20Grey%20Ones%20-%20JB%20Priestley.pdf

    I’ve only ever read one other collection of stories that was so well assembled I chased the editor before the various authors therein and that was Otto Penzler.

    So, if Black Water looks fun to you (it was for me!), I also recommend Penzler’s collections: “The Best American Mystery Stories of the Twentieth Century”, “The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century”, and “The Best American Noir of the Century” ( https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/12471.Otto_Penzler?utf8=✓&sort=popularity)

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon May 20, 2023 - 3:03 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/05/20/110401617202230594/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/05/20/110401617202230594/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  6. “Little Lebowski Thirsty Strivers”

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon May 20, 2023 - 1:19 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/05/20/110398379420889105/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/05/20/110398379420889105/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  7. Friday night is pizza night for junior (and I) and I’ve pretty much got his favorite NY style pepperoni dialed in now, this was perfect

    ooni koda gas pizza oven just after launching the pizza into its, about a 15" NY style with pepperoni
    Figure 1. ooni koda gas pizza oven just after launching the pizza into its, about a 15" NY style with pepperoni.
    the pizza top down on a cutting board after about a three minute bake
    Figure 2. the pizza top down on a cutting board after about a three minute bake.
    i took the three most burned pieces, topped with pecorino, chili oil, red pepper flakes, and oregano
    Figure 3. i took the three most burned pieces, topped with pecorino, chili oil, red pepper flakes, and oregano.
    ECU pepperoni cups with pecorino, oregano, and red pepper flakes
    Figure 4. ECU pepperoni cups with pecorino, oregano, and red pepper flakes.
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon May 20, 2023 - 1:00 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/05/20/110398303432568392/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/05/20/110398303432568392/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  8. Https://techbrosf.weebly.com/fentalife.html that’s numberwang!

    Fenta.lifeWe have come up with this brilliant ad campaign called Fentalife. Sure, nobody understands it, we are graffitiing images illegally on buildings, and it’s just an attack on the poor, but look at our...Techbro SF
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon May 18, 2023 - 5:05 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/05/18/110387941140587201/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/05/18/110387941140587201/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  9. The flowers my wife gave me for our wedding anniversary has ranunculus in it and 1. cool, never noticed this kind of flower before 2. what a fun name to say

    ranunculus!

    phone screen shot of ddg image results for "ranunculus", results in yellow, burgundy, pink, all of these, other pinks, fuscia, etcit's a cool round flower with a high petal count all packed together
    Figure 1. phone screen shot of ddg image results for "ranunculus", results in yellow, burgundy, pink, all of these, other pinks, fuscia, etcit's a cool round flower with a high petal count all packed together.
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon May 16, 2023 - 2:03 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/05/16/110375903875670719/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/05/16/110375903875670719/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  10. Eleventh book, Emily St. John Mandel’s "Sea of Tranquility” ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45754981-the-glass-hotel)

    The Glass HotelFrom the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exh…Goodreads

    More of a novella really, and while I have a pithy “oh it’s like this” comparison I’ll resist sharing the spoiler. I will say that I wish I’d read her previous book, “The Glass Hotel” first because they seem to share characters.

    Anyway, yeah, “Station 11” author, if you liked that you’ll like this.

    “Sea of Tranquility” cover, the moon rising over rolling green hills in the foreground, a forest in the background.
    Figure 1. “Sea of Tranquility” cover, the moon rising over rolling green hills in the foreground, a forest in the background..
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon May 15, 2023 - 5:45 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/05/15/110373944962599998/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/05/15/110373944962599998/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.
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