1. guy next to me on bart is reading the last few pages of The Road between civic center and the mission, brutal

  2. It’s all in the second person, which i got used to but, ugh

    it’ll probably make an OK movie

    it reminded me a lot of Jeff Noon who I enjoy more for this kind of thing

    Being set in and about Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka politics was really neat

    it’s pretty brutal in some places, which I don’t get down with

    the twist was annoying

    the last 20 pages were not needed

  3. 21st book of the year: “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida”, by Shehan Karunatilaka

    A friend posted that they’d just read a book that they think might be the best book they’d ever read, and it was this one. 4, 3, 2, 1 was listed for a Booker and this one won the prize? OK, I’ll try it.

    I really wanted to like it more than I did, and the second act really flows well, but I had a hard time finishing it, today, finally. It’s right up my alley in lots of ways. v0v

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57224204-the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida

    The Seven Moons of Maali AlmeidaColombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler,…Goodreads

    Paperback cover, as I read it, centered all-caps futura lookin' font w/ thep points all alightly rounded in white over a multicolor acrylic painted face in bold geometric cirles and rings and swoops in vibrant colors

  4. my kid (5y old this week!) has been obsessed with building stuff out of cardboard after drawing front back top and sides and cutting them out and wanted me to make a transformer yesterday

    so i searched for patterns and fell down a papercraft hole, do not recommend

    fiddly as shit i had to do all of the assembly myself

    he loves them though!

    also, cyberdrone’s deviantart is wild: https://www.deviantart.com/cyberdrone

    CyberDrone on DeviantArtCyberDrone is an artist on DeviantArt. · Artworks: 2887 · Followers: 5239 · Likes: 18919deviantart.com

    arcee, optimus prime, and soundwave transformers in robot mode, papercraft, colored by a 5y old, assembled poorly by mei made the first one correctly with slots and tabs, after that, fucking nope, used elmer's glue

    the optimus prime papercraft design we used, by "CyberDrone"

  5. i learned to make roux for gumbo from dad’s pal from boot camp, who was from louisiana, and he taught us the patient “stir, stir, stir, heat, stir, but whatever you do, don’t burn!” method.

    it stinks to stand over and mind and is apparently a recent trend. like, originally, people just didn’t make roux so dark that it was so much work

    but i do like my roux dark, so i start a few hours earlier and bake it at 350F, slight stir every half hour or so, easy mode

    a quarter sheet with a cup of oil in it, a cup of all purpose flour and roux spoon standing by, about to be addedmethod and recipe from serious eats, as per, which i use now instead of the old note card i used to dig out

    the raw roux, mixed, pale, in a quarter sheet, about to go into the oven, which i had just stirred with my roux spoon

    the roux in the quarter sheet in the oven

    stunt dark, labor free (free as in time)

    roux, baked 30 minutes, color: peanut butter

    roux, baked 60 minutes, color: chocolate

    roux, baked 90 minutes, color: darker chocolate

    roux, baked 240 minutes, poured and scraped onto on the aromatics, color: dark chocolate

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