Finished reading: The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar 📚
Finished reading: The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar 📚
Finished reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells 📚
Finished reading: Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 📚
Finished reading: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach 📚
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Finished reading: Chess Story by Stefan Zweig 📚
Finished reading: The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United States by Dr Jeffrey Lewis 📚
Finished reading: Do Recruit by Khalilah Olokunola 📚
Finished reading: Foster by Claire Keegan 📚
Finished reading: Tentacle by Rita Indiana 📚
Finished reading: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré 📚
Wranglers' Canyon/Crash Walker by Andy Seven 📚
from Wranglers' Canyon
How can one learn the meaning of virtue if one hasn’t committed acts to make the devil proud?
I’m too smart to be good and too dumb to be evil.
Nature looks right pretty in a painting, but when you’re all along in its presence you realize it’s the boss and can do whatever it damn well pleases, and that includes killing you. With no regrets.
Money don’t recognize family or friends much
Justice must be served, whether the people want it or not, and it never fails to surpise me how little people really care for it when it’s their friend who’s the guilty party.
Folks with memories that short were eventually going to march to their doom.
from Crash Walker
he cockily slumped into the posture of one who was entitled to his surroundings.
Finished reading: Wranglers' Canyon/Crash Walker by Andy Seven 📚
A punk novel twofer that starts with a surreal western then repurposes some names for a paranoid 60s Hollywood conspiracy plot.
Finished reading: The Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis 📚
Seems like a good time for the Sublime-minded to revisit this article from The Ringer: The Sun Gods of the LBC
True chaos requires the illusion of stability.
Finished reading: The Mourner by Richard Stark 📚
Finished reading: The Outfit by Richard Stark 📚
Finished reading: The Man with the Getaway Face by Richard Stark 📚
Finished reading: The Hunter by Richard Stark 📚
Badger’s Law: “Any website with the word ‘Truth’ in the URL has none in the posted content.” (see also: Haig’s Law)
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Haig’s Law: “The awfulness of a website’s design is directly proportional to the insanity of its contents and creator.” (see also: Badger’s Law)
Finished reading: Vanishing Games by Roger Hobbs 📚
The sequel to Ghostman.
Loved both these books. I wish there were more, but the author has passed away.
I kind of like when an artist leaves behind only a small but quality body of work. Leaving me wanting more but also not “disappointing” me.
Like Death From Above 1979 (at least before they got back together, haven’t listened to version 2.0).
Finished reading: Dead Man’s Switch by Robin Sloan 📝
the invention of the AI model was the invention of the hyperhostage.
Excellent Advice for Living by Kevin Kelly 📚
Books like these feel a bit like divination engines. Different quotes will mean different things at different times and to different people. So I hesitate to share all the advice atoms that struck me as I read them. Despite that, I’m sharing a few here.
Art before laundry.
In the garden, dig a $100 hole for a $10 plant.
As a metaphor, this extends far beyond the bounds of the garden (as does the garden as metaphor).
The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.
To remain astonished I think you must remain curious (specifically non-algorithmically mediated curiosity). Which is why I think curiosity is a superpower.
Finished reading: Excellent Advice for Living by Kevin Kelly 📚
Andy Duncan’s story in The Book of Magic, edited by Gardner Dozois, had some great lines. 📚
Remarkably enough enery single foot, whatever its size, matched the Devils Footprints perfectly, which makes sense when you think about it.
And the point of such spells wasn’t novelty, but repetition and focus. All the world’s magic-makers agreed on that.
A name for the devil that hits a bit too close to home these days?
Senior Senator from the Great State of Bigotry and Hatred and Status Quo
“Sometimes it’s more diplomatic,” the Devil said, “just to make noises with your mouth, and say nothing at all.”
But vows are like spells, too, Petey knew, they’re prayers to ourselves, and they work even better, if heeded.
They terrified and impressed hundreds of people as they went, and spawned legends, myths, ghost stories, and religious movements, in addition to countless outright lies and a number of jokes that weren’t half bad.
Finished reading: Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown by Mike Mignola 📚