In other words, we need to get rid of the Highlander mentality of “there can only be one”.

I Knead Dem Biscuits YouTube video by Frugit

I knead dem biscuits. (The whole channel is like this.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH3m...

...but if you're looking to be scared of buildings, I'm not sure it achieved that for me. Ultimately, these "strange buildings" illustrates a symptom in Uketsu's books. These buildings were created by people. By really twisted, horrible people. The ultimate horror is the people, not the buildings.

Just finished reading Strange Buildings by Uketsu (I actually started it after dinner and maybe finished in about 4 hours). Definitely weird and unsettling with a dash of architecture. I am definitely a fan of how the story was structured...

I wasn’t that big into dinosaurs either, but I recall reading a ton of dinosaur books when I was a kid because I was determined to go through the entire science section of the library. I was more of an overall science nerd (or possibly a completionist).

Ha! I like the term princess hours. Sometimes this happens with bookstores I want to visit. Some of them aren’t open very much on weekends which is pretty much the only time I’m free. There are some obscure museums that do this too.

Yay! Bookstore closer to me has books I’m looking for!

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Why book lovers are flocking to this small Scottish town YouTube video by DW Euromaxx

This is cool: you can try running a bookstore while you're vacationing in Scotland. On the other hand--I don't want to work while I'm on vacation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY3C...

I've lived in rural places, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it per se. It's mostly up to the people there on how they deal with it. Are they open and welcoming or are they the sort to think the world begins and ends with them only?

Apparently there are people who hate Mongolian stamps??? It's so rare to get mail from Mongolia, so shouldn't they be happy that got something from such a remote place? (I would be excited to get mail from Mongolia regardless of what the stamp looks like.)

Yes, I’m a younger person and I haven’t lived through the things they did. But I also hope I’m not like that in the next decade or so because one could argue that I will be in that demographic soon.

I mean I get it. The older generation went through some hardships and they feel like they have to fight for whatever they want. But there’s a time and place for it and this is not it.

Ugh. Right about I was to get on the BART, this older Asian lady just barged in front of me. There were still plenty of seats and the train just arrived so it wasn’t because she was late. I really don’t like the impoliteness of the older generation.

Bookstore at Waverly

Store front bookstore at Waverly

The second new bookstore I visited was in Chinatown, specializing in Asian American authors.

Store front to “The Best Bookstore”

Books with post-its

Went to check out a new bookstore that I had not been to before. It calls itself “The Best Bookstore” but I didn’t find any books I was looking for there (one mentioned recently by the NYT and the other a Pulitzer winner).

Ugh. Autocorrect. Should be “major rehaul.”

Chicken taco bowl.

And it’s time for lunch!

Nerts by Roy Litchenstein, an abstract pop art painting featuring a deconstructed cartoon face.

Self-portrait (Camouflage) by Andy Warhol. A picture of Warhol’s face overlaid by camouflage pattern.

Spiders by Louise Bourgoise. Sculptures of spiders.

Pyramid by Sol Lewitt. A sculpture of white cubes in the form of a pyramid.

Back at the SFMOMA and this is the first day they opened back up a couple floors after a major retail.

If you want to write a letter or postcard to a departed soul, Japan has the post office for you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLKw...

(I suppose one could argue that Elizabeth had done some stuff for morale and WWII, etc. But the rest of her relatives? Yeah, no.)

I mean, I do get why, but I think people's continued fascination with monarchies is total bullshit. Yes, I get that people have all these fantasies about royal life. But in real life, it is not cool having some rich, entitled person dictate culture, politics, and quality of living.

German stamp depicting Queen Elizabeth II

I just got a postcard which seems normal at first glance, but then I realize there's a German stamp with Queen Elizabeth II on it. Seriously, why? I get that the British royal family has German ancestry, but so does 15% of Americans and you don't find them on German stamps.

World Record Achieved for the most people dressed as dinosaurs YouTube video by CTV News

Getting a world record for number of people dressed in dinosaur costumes seems fun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc_z...

Also, I think it’s to everyone’s benefit to not know who this person is. It’s not going to earn cool points with anyone who actually matters.

I looked it up. It’s the nickname for an influencer part of the incel/manosphere advocating dangerous methods to looksmaxxing. Think people taking plastic surgery to extremes.

Stamps from Belgium depicting different ladybugs.

Cute ladybug stamps from Belgium that were apparently issued a couple days ago. I rarely get postcards from Belgium and mostly I only get the boring stamps, so I doubt I'll ever see any of these in person.

A four panel brain comic by Susie Esse about a little brain that meets a cat. Brain watches them eat their little bickies and sleep curled up on the bed. Finally Brain is called upon to start work when they drop to their knees and beg the cat “please, how do I get YOUR life!?”

#susieesse #comic

Even if train people talk your ear off about nerdy stuff, they tend to stay in their lane. Bike people, not so much. Train people, unlike bike people, tend not to run over pedestrians and have no illusions that they are hip and cool.