1. Afternoon Ride

    A 23 mile (37 kilometer), 1089 foot (332 meter) elevation ride over two and three quarters hours, (two and a quarter hours moving) in San Francisco, California.

  2. Municipal Legacy Business Equity Agency

  3. 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

  4. 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)

  5. introduced to Amos Tutuola’s “The Complete Gentleman” ( https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/11169484-the-complete-gentleman) via “Black Water 2.” Tutuola’s novel “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” is what Brian Eno and David Byrne’s 1981 album is named after, which i did not know about and now would like to read.

    The Complete GentlemanDiscover and share books you love on Goodreads.Goodreads

    i can’t find you a copy but here’s a fun analysis: https://www.tor.com/2018/12/19/i-aint-got-no-body-amos-tutuolas-the-complete-gentleman/

    I Ain't Got No Body: Amos Tutuola's "The Complete Gentleman" - ReactorWelcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. This week, we’re reading Amos Tutuola’s “The Complete Gentlemen,” first published as part of his novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard in 1952. Spoilers ahead. […]Reactor
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