1. fifth book: took a break from all the serious stuff I’m reading to get and read Kitchen Confidential this week. Never read any of his stuff, but it turns out Bourdain’s writing on Parts Unknown is in exactly the same voice, so it was practically an audio book to read.

    ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33313.Kitchen_Confidential)

    Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underb…A deluxe, annotated edition of Kitchen Confidential to …Goodreads

    the “updated edition” paperback cover of Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, featuring a younger Bourdain in chef’s whites and an apron looking through the window of Les Halles, the restraunt he worked at when he wrote it

    sixth book: volume two of Ursula K. Le Guin’s two volume collection, The Hainish Novels and Stories. ( https://www.ursulakleguin.com/hainish-novels-and-stories )

    Ursula K. Le Guin — Hainish Novels and StoriesUrsula K. Le Guin

    I’ve been working my way through the stories in the second volume for years, picking it off my to-read pile now and again. This weekend I read the Five Ways to Forgiveness cycle and am about half way through The Telling, which has me enthralled, so I’m calling this one done early.

    Strongest possible endorsement for the entire collection.

    ( https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/33533489-the-hainish-novels-and-stories)

    The Hainish Novels and StoriesFor the first time, all of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish …Goodreads

    a 3D rendering of the box that The Hainish Novels and Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin comes in. It has a wrap around color photo of a long-exposure shot of the night sky turning over mountains as the sun rises (or sets?) behind them. Kind of a boring cover tbh.

  2. bonus ride photo, cool new bike sticker

    ecu: a sticker on the back of my seat post of a sonic the hedgehog / garfield chimera

    the sticker on the back of my seat post of a sonic the hedgehog / garfield chimera from a different angle

  3. rode up to bernal and then carried my bike to the top, it’s still there, great work everyone, thanks so much

    selfie in a black and red polka dot cycling shirt from the top of bernal heights park, downtown sf behind me. i wore a cycling shirt because i wanted all the rear pockets for my keys and snacks and stuff like that

    the front triangle of my bike leaning against a guard rail, the guard rail has a sticker on it that says ANTIFA CYCLING CLUB

    map of my ride path from strava, which tells this story: i know i'll just ride straight up folsom! no fuck this, back down to precita park and around, up ripley instead

  4. bernal heights

    A three mile (four and three quarters kilometer), 482 foot (147 meter) elevation ride over three quarters of an hour, (half an hour moving) in San Francisco, California.

  5. in my building, it’s x-mas all year round, thank you

    ecu a blue san francisco rolling can for recyclables that someone has written "THANK YOU X-MAS" on, in white permanent marker, for reasons unknown to me

    ecu a second blue san francisco rolling can for recyclables that someone has written "THANK YOU X-MAS" on, in white permanent marker, for reasons unknown to me

    ecu a green san francisco rolling can for compostables that someone has written "THANK YOU" on, in white permanent marker, for reasons unknown to me

    ecu a back san francisco rolling can for trash that someone has written "THANK YOU X-MAS" on, in white permanent marker, for reasons unknown to me

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