1. 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
    Figure 1. Link preview of https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110403938932091902, "gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)".
    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 2. 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.
  2. snoop dog holding a joint, laughing, looking right, wearing a gray winter cap and white and tan striped scarf
    Figure 1. snoop dog holding a joint, laughing, looking right, wearing a gray winter cap and white and tan striped scarf.
    split shotsleft: the paperback nyrb cover of “Autobiography of a Corpse” by, which is on my to-read pile (after I finish my life in the bush of ghosts and the palm-wine drinkard)right: a black and white photograph of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky wearing spectacles looking to the left in disbelief, as if looking at both the cover of his book, and snoop
    Figure 2. split shotsleft: the paperback nyrb cover of “Autobiography of a Corpse” by, which is on my to-read pile (after I finish my life in the bush of ghosts and the palm-wine drinkard)right: a black and white photograph of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky wearing spectacles looking to the left in disbelief, as if looking at both the cover of his book, and snoop.
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon August 14, 2023 - 11:52 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/08/14/110890657041451888/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/08/14/110890657041451888/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  3. The only challenge coin i’ve ever kept

    photo of a challenge coin in my palm, a light blue field with a white daisy with a pink center in the middle, and the words Live top left, Love top right, and Laugh bottom center
    Figure 1. photo of a challenge coin in my palm, a light blue field with a white daisy with a pink center in the middle, and the words Live top left, Love top right, and Laugh bottom center.
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon August 06, 2023 - 5:01 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/08/06/110843742249597666/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/08/06/110843742249597666/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  4. Finally signing up for tsa [spits on the ground] pre and mad about this form question

    A screen shot of one question on the form which I waffled on before the everloving wife told me what she thought the right answer was :( Hair Color“Gray or partially gray”
    Figure 1. A screen shot of one question on the form which I waffled on before the everloving wife told me what she thought the right answer was :( Hair Color“Gray or partially gray”.
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon August 06, 2023 - 3:30 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/08/06/110843383173497783/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/08/06/110843383173497783/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  5. [TMBG voice] there’s only two parties in me, and I’m heading to the third

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon August 06, 2023 - 3:25 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/08/06/110843366014021986/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/08/06/110843366014021986/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  6. Least favorite usually-reactionary move is when they say they are against something for the preposterous reason of, not-getting-it.

    “I don’t get it.”

    If you don’t get it, why not be FOR it until you do, or at least get the heck out of the way, knuckleheads.

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon August 06, 2023 - 3:19 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/08/06/110843343151060505/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/08/06/110843343151060505/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  7. It is so weird how having hobbies is coped with by randos at parties who I assume are just thinking out loud

    “oh, you’re a ___ guy?"

    alright, hold your horses, no, don’t have that kind of attention span. I’m also mildly interested in and but don’t try to identify as into eight or nine other things, alright?

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon August 06, 2023 - 3:12 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/08/06/110843314230109670/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/08/06/110843314230109670/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  8. More like sunburn streets

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon July 31, 2023 - 2:57 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/07/31/110806449083313788/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/07/31/110806449083313788/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  9. Ship of Calrisseus

    a coast guard ship named The Millennium Falcon near alameda
    Figure 1. a coast guard ship named The Millennium Falcon near alameda.
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon July 29, 2023 - 8:59 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/07/29/110799378954325818/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/07/29/110799378954325818/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  10. Municipal yachting

    photo, clear blue sky day, wake under the bay bridge looking back to the san francisco city skyline, from a ferry en route to alameda
    Figure 1. photo, clear blue sky day, wake under the bay bridge looking back to the san francisco city skyline, from a ferry en route to alameda.
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon July 29, 2023 - 8:56 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/07/29/110799366859897679/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/07/29/110799366859897679/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.
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