An invitation to wander
Liked My wander page by James G (jamesg.blog) When you come to this website, I want you to explore; to click around and see what interests you. Love reframing the blogroll around wandering. I also...
View ArticleReply to Alex: who designed that hotel room? 😆
Replied to Trieste by Alex (alexsirac.com) My bedroom is exactly as cringe as I hoped based on the online photos (but also extremely comfy and luxurious!!). Amazing 😆 Definitely the sentiment people...
View Article10:20AM by Spoon
Listened to 1020 AM by Spoon from Girls Can Tell This song keeps popping into my head lately. Great album.
View ArticleThis is not a doomed time
Quoted ‘End of the world vibes’: why culture can’t stop thinking about apocalypse by Dorian Lynskey (The Guardian) “Such convictions in the mouths of safe, comfortable people playing at crisis,...
View ArticleTranslations within translations
Bookmarked Pseudotranslation and the Art of Made Up Words by FILIP HAJDAR DRNOVŠEK ZORKO (Uncanny Magazine) Pseudotranslation is the idea—prevalent in, but not unique to, SF/F—that the author did not...
View ArticleInterview at People and Blogs
Liked P&B: Tracy Durnell by Manu Moreale (manuelmoreale.com) This is the 33rd edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs....
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Weeknotes: April 6-12, 2024
Highlight of the week: I lounged around and read all weekend 😃 Looking forward to: my camas and allium bulbs blooming — another couple weeks I guess? Stuff I did: 14 hours consulting — illustration...
View ArticlePublishing pressures on genre fiction length
Replied to Are sci-fi books much longer than they used to be? If so, any idea why? byu/kern3three inprintSF Scalzi’s reply to OP: “Novel lengths in science fiction and fantasy are essentially dictated...
View ArticleThe draw of the herd
Replied to 🟧 Why did we stop saying “hipster”? by Kyle Chayka (One Thing) Hipster is over, I think, in part because no one can — or wants to — claim their individuality at this point. It is neither...
View ArticleIt’s just a blog
Star Struck: Lauren Oyler’s meditations on Goodreads, anxiety, and gossip by Ann Manov 😬 This book review is a brutal takedown* in which both author and critic come off as braggadocios about their...
View ArticleRecipes as a score for improvisation
Replied to The Problem With Recipes by Kate Ray (soft leaves) The problem with recipes is that they teach you to cook backward, from dreams rather than reality. The backwards process she describes of...
View ArticleThe vulnerability of having taste
Quoted Elizabeth Goodspeed on the importance of taste – and how to acquire it by Elizabeth Goodspeed (itsnicethat.com) Developing taste is an exercise in vulnerability: it requires you to trust your...
View ArticleThe obscenity of women’s pleasure
Quoted If You Thought Overturning Roe Was Bad, Get Ready for the Revival of These Victorian Laws by Jill Filipovic (Slate) Those in the anti-abortion movement are relying on the letter of the law from...
View ArticleStyle vs. taste
Quoted #176: Accounting for taste by Haley Nahman (Maybe Baby) Finding your personal style—for your body, for your home—is the perfect light-hearted stand-in for the slogging, uncertain work of...
View ArticleRewilding for resilience
Replied to We Need to Rewild the Internet (noemamag.com) Technologists are great at incremental fixes, but to regenerate entire habitats we need to learn from ecologists who take a whole-systems view....
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Weeknotes: April 13-19, 2024
Rethinking our spaces for what would be useful to our lives, not what’s expected to go there — I’m digging having a bunch of open space in the living room because it’s easier to play with the cats —...
View ArticleGlobal nutrient transfer
Replied to What gets delivered with the compost by Antonia Malchik (On the Commons) That growing mountain of trash, and the fact that when I was a teenager thirty years ago the landfill was not a...
View ArticlePhonefree
Bookmarked Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone (alvarez.io) At the time of writing this article, I’ve been living without social media for 3 years and without a smartphone for 2 years....
View Article“Webbing” the IndieWeb
Human Protocols by Chris In summary, the IndieWeb will thrive because of the human protocols we develop by using it. We don’t need a central standards body to define those protocols. Instead, we will...
View ArticleKing County Parks Levy survey: an exercise in defining success
King County Parks is preparing for their 2025 levy vote. Taking their survey made me change my mind about how I prioritized things — defining success for something as big as a park system was an...
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