Adam

Truly, we all win if regular people think less like economists and more like the prison journalist who writes poems about butterflies.

Reading my first Pynchon, 2 chapters in and yea, I can tell this is a going to be a good time

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

Books Thru Bars Prison book program located in @groundworkbooks at UCSD

hey this is cool sdbooksthrubars.wordpress.com

Every Friday as a kid, my dad would come home with a new Goosebumps, and man did I look forward to that. Predator was an early obsession too, and when I found out about AvP crossover? So cool. No idea what happened to my copies over the years, but glad I could find these.

I’m on a similar journey. 41 and writing fiction for the first time for the pure joy of it. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t self-conscious about starting so late, but fuck it. Glad to find you here.

I love this

Just ordered. Can’t wait!

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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YouTube video by mfc172 Pearl Jam - Small Town (SBD) - 4.12.94 Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA

coping with the impending AI apocalypse by chasing nostalgia back to my 90s childhood and running Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town on repeat www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGJz...

YouTube video by IFLScience Deep Sea Antarctica - Possible Juvenile Colossal Squid Sighting

from there I found myself here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV9h... - the ocean floor is craaazy

got my writing prompt for tonight

YouTube video by Jared Henderson AI Writing is Taking Over

Order books through your local bookstore yall (if that's an option for you) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew7Q...

@mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social dunno if you field questions like this here, but thought I’d try: do you all know of any writing groups or workshops in SD suitable for beginner fiction writers?

That is so cool. Not a hare, but my brain immediately went to

sunday

Hey, reading is not a spectator sport. It's active rugby. It's capoeira. It's each brain cell doing jeet kune do. It plays in the rain, in the mud, in the snow or on the sunniest day of a flower-filled year, but it does so with a wild smile on its face knowing nothing will stop it. Power forward.

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick, Part 1

This 2 part episode on the symbolism and etymology from 1wholerabbit is intensely interesting. pca.st/episode/ecd1...

an invitation? consider my interest piqued.

work today

It’s a wild, wild ride. Disorienting, sad, yet also pretty hilarious, has some of the best dialogue I’ve ever read, and then just emotionally crushes you in the final pages (along with the afterword). Goddamn.

After sitting on my shelf for years, I finally read A Scanner Darkly and now I’m gonna need a minute.

after reading Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” and discussing his rules, students will read a few recent op-eds and some current legislation, annotating for violations

from the office, a necessary addition

Please be good please be good please be good

Committee of ten or so turkey vultures at the lake today

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

My first @johnlangan.bsky.social. The Shadow over Innsmouth is one of my fav novellas, so def tickled that part of my brain on a deep level. Loved everything about it. Stirred up some surprising and emotional memories of fishing with my dad and gramps as a kid.

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.