Pizza Slow, Mastodon posts, page 98

in a world, where two movies come out around the same time, and every single person on earth seems to notice for some reason almost as if they were directly participating in a coordinated marketing campaign for one or the other or both movies, idk idk, ahem, ahem. every poster, must fight to survive

exactly one block of this otherwise lovely ride was dumb enough for a car (perhaps London Breed herself!) to honk at me.

assuming tenth-of-a-mile blocks, punters have about a 0.00043% chance of guessing which one it was!

a strava screenshot of a bike route loop lined in red over San Francisco, from the Mission east to Oracle Arena, along the waterfront north and then west around to Ocean Beach and back through Golden Gate Park to the wiggle back to the mission

Municipal Legacy Business Equity Agency

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

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

the quarter, w/pepper flakes, for the tomatoes

the eighth to finish, missing: eight chiffonaded basil leaves, salt to taste

fifteen: Egan again. I knew I’d have a 10 hours of plane time, so I brought “Oceanic” ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6741362-oceanic) and it delivered.

OceanicCollected together here for the first time are twelve s…Goodreads

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?

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)