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At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I\u2019ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I find knowing I\u2019ll revisit my posts to be a positive and mellowing influence on my social media activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at\u00a0post.lurk.org\/@disquiet<\/a>), and I\u2019m also trying out\u00a0a few others<\/a>. And I generally take weekends off social media.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0Terribly sad about the death of author Geoff Nicholson. Geoff wrote a bit for me when I was an editor at Tower Records\u2019 Pulse!<\/em> magazine in the early\/mid-1990s. When a new Bush album came out, we were due to put the band on the cover, because they were popular, and covers plaed a different role in decision-making than did the interior material. I\u2019d just read Geoff\u2019s novel Everything and More<\/em>, which takes place in a department store and said lots of interesting things about consumerism, and his earlier non-fiction book Big Noises<\/em>, about the guitar in rock and roll (in classic Nicholson mode: it was about the role of guitar in the 1990s, yet was published at the start of the decade, not the end), and so I assigned him the interview. He did great, needless to say. He was also (as am I) an obsessive walker. I will miss him.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0I was looking today at some old newspapers from 1916, and I like that the word \u201c\u2018phone\u201d was new enough usage that they still included an apostrophe to show it was a shortened \u201ctelephone.\u201d (The \u201cWilson\u201d is Woodrow Wilson, due to address a convention in St. Louis long-distance. Very high-tech.)<\/p>\n

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\u25b0\u00a0This new Gemini thing in Gmail that insistently inquires if I wanna \u201cpolish\u201d my email is spelled with a capital \u201cP\u201d so every single time it pops up I wonder why the software is trying to get me to translate my draft into Polish. (And not today, AI. I don\u2019t \u2014 neither polish, nor Polish.)<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0The ice cream truck drives by \u2014 yes, it\u2019s mid-January \u2014 playing its little ditty, and everyone in the cafe, employees and customers alike, looks up in unison from whatever they\u2019re individually doing and out toward the street<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0I watched the old Beastie Boys performance of \u201cCh-Check It Out\u201d from Letterman where they emerge from the subway, rapping much of it outdoors before entering the studio. Automated captions read \u201cswap the fish\u201d at the bottom of the screen for a long time, then replaced by \u201cdown,\u201d and that was it.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0That thing where an app pings you and it\u2019s pretty clear it\u2019s nothing remotely important, just somewhere a product manager decided to try to juice engagement statistics<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0Chinese food gurus: Any recommendations for restaurants serving spicy douhua in San Francisco? Thanks. (I\u2019m not big on sweet.)<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0It\u2019s a small thing, but it still feels a little magical when I add a Disquiet Junto participant\u2019s just-uploaded track to the week\u2019s project\u2019s playlist, and then somewhere else, where the playlist is embedded, like on my own website or the llllllll.co BBS, the track appears.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0Loved this essay<\/a> about David Lynch by music critic Ned Raggett, and am stoked to have my little piece<\/a> on Lynch\u2019s The Straight Story<\/em> mentioned.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0As a heavy Obsidian user, I\u2019ve found the expedient Bebop iOS app to be nearly perfect. One other thing I\u2019ve done is use an easy Shortcut so from my iPhone with one click I can open a specific doc (like a to-do list). Just paste in a doc URL and the Shortcut works. (This link is the Shortcut template<\/a>. I still find Shortcuts very confusing, but I manage to get a little bit done with them.)<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0I\u2019m still plugging away at my two extended reads that have defined the start of this still very new yet already very long year: Neal Stephenson\u2019s Cryptonomicon<\/em> (closing in on halfway, and it\u2019s a re-read, my fourth time since it was published, back in 1999) and George Eliot\u2019s Middlemarch<\/em> (more like a quarter-ish). In the midst of two very long books, I needed some sort of short-term closure, so while doing so cut into my predetermined reading, I made quick work of a short novel in the meanwhile, the first (or second, depending on publication or storyline sequencing) of C.S. Lewis\u2019 Narnia series, which I never completed reading as a child, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe<\/em>, mostly because I wanted to have read it before the in-the-works Greta Gerwig film adaptation comes out. I also finished reading one graphic novel, Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton<\/em>, by writer Kyle Starks and artist Chris Schweizer, neither of whom I knew much about before, and which I liked the heck out of, especially Schweizer\u2019s ability with cute-yet-chaotic moments in tightly packed little panels. There\u2019s a lot of Kyle Baker in Schweizer\u2019s drawing, and Tex Avery, and other elements I can\u2019t immediately tease out. He can put more drama in a still frame of a casually drawn car hovering in midair than does much of the splash-page bravado I\u2019ve been faced with lately, and more characterization, as well, in faces drawn simply.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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