People like to talk about the chemistry in the studio during the recording sessions for albums like 'Pet Sounds' and 'Dark Side of the Moon' but can you imagine the sheer, crackling energy present during the recording of the Mentos theme song?
Blade Runner, Run, Lola, Run, and Running Man movies all take place in the Runiverse
new translation of @autreauxp.bsky.social up @ Socrates on the Beach ...
socratesonthebeach.com/patrick-autr...
Thrilled to be reading this Thursday at the Hartwick College Visiting Writers Series (and extra thrilled to be hanging out this week with @bradleyfest.bsky.social & @libbycudmore.bsky.social)
Thanks to Brad Fest & Hartwick College for inviting me!
everyone formulates dumb opinions but social media is a warning sign for who doesn't have the friends in their life who will dress them down in private for being dumb
Bluesky down for a day and per capita WIP page count spikes
If I woke up as a bug I would start crying.
I miss Kristi Noem so fucking much
"But what can the two of us do alone?"
"Alone, true, but with such hatred..."
Her eyes held a strange gleam. I felt afraid and overjoyed.
-Amparo Dávila, "The Houseguest"
Daryl Groetsch has given the ocean depths an eerie sense of calm and adventure, ranking among the finest #ambient soundscapes in recent memory.
'Fathoms' is a #PMPick [9/10]
Walked through literal fog today thinking about what excites me about writing. It’s possibility, what can or could be. The veil partially lifted, asking the reader to reveal the rest. The power of suggestion and imagination. A refusal of taxonomy, of certainty, of the wikization of invented worlds.
A pen and watercolour sketch of Trethevy Quoit, a megalithic burial site made up of standing stones constructed with a granite slab roof.
A pen and watercolour sketch of Trethevy Quoit.
Sometime within the last 24 hours someone in the white house uttered the phrase 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend' and that wove it's way through Trump's brain and turned into 'If the US blocks the Strait of Hormuz, we win'
Is Trump...Shooting the Moon of Middle East Politics?!
we have always blocked the strait in westasia
Transmit/Ender, Digital Collage, 2020. I shot a bunch of downtown Fargo, ND in 2001 when I was taking care of my mom. I had a dirt cheap studio in the Black Building. #collage #graphicart #artsky
GAS STATION SWORD AND SORCERY
All this to say: if you liked 'Piranesi' you might like 'The Veldt Institute' but, also, you might not.
It's also just really cool to see a book like 'Piranesi' that is pretty weird and conceptual - as well as vibe-heavy/plot-light - get so much popular traction.
Many of us want to write something completely 'original' and 'new'.
This is never really possible but when we do think we are on an original track, there is the threat that coming across another work that is similar enough (at least to us), will dampen that excitement.
While 'Piranesi' is definitely different from TVI in many ways (maybe it's just self-obsession to see one's writing in other's work) there are some similarities that are striking, even eerie.
I'm certainly enjoying 'Piranesi' a lot, though I'm also glad I didn't read it before 'TVI' came out.
It's always cool - after you write something - to read some *thing* that feels like a spiritual predecessor to some *thing* that you wrote.
Am reading Susanna Clarke's 'Piranesi' for the first time right now.
It had been on my radar since it came out, but I just hadn't gotten around to it.
Re-upping this now in the brief lull between (larger) horrors
sometimes, someone says thank you for writing, this meant something to me, i appreciate this. and you say ah, very good, and keep writing. sometimes, someone says hey you're a dingdong, i hate you and resent that this exists, i am so mad, goddamn you. and you say ah, very good, and keep writing.
Graphic with a cover of Wife Shaped Bodies, an amalgamation of creepy hands and fungus covering a face, and a picture of the author partially covered in hand shadows, with text: Meet Laura Cranehill on tour Wednesday April 15 7:00 pm Powell’s books with Wendy Wagner Portland OR
Come to my Powell’s event for Wife Shaped Bodies where I will be speaking with the incredible Wendy N Wagner, April 15th 7 pm!
'Death to America'
- 'Genuine, immanent, existential' threat (for decades)
- Justifies sanctions, bombing, invasion
- This cannot stand
'A Whole Civilization will Die Tonight'
- Bombastic rhetoric
- He doesn't actually mean it
- Just a negotiation tactic
- Watch the Dow
A couple of oldies.
Just now noticing how much this account as grown lately ( posting regularly, who would have guessed). Still a long ways off from the 30k I reached on twitter but slowly getting there. Appreciate you.
We’re glad it’s TACO Tuesday! 🌮
