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The disapproving index finger gestures are pretty good too. The still "wait your turn", the waggled "tsk, tsk".

Same, I'm over by Savannah State and getting it via Bluesky

Was it at Hunter? I can't read the NYT article, but NPR sounded like it was at the main base in Hinesville

Blogging about making and fixing mistakes in the inking process of the project:

theredbromeliad.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/festina-lente

I've lost track of it, but for a while I had a copy of the most depressing cookbook ever published: "Microwave Cooking for One"

Accuracy over truth. Thank you for nailing what has been frustrating me about NPR lately that I couldn't find the wording for

I can't listen to this right now, but I just read the wikipedia article about it and I am pumped for it after work. Sounds fantastic

The spine of a black hardcover book. There are gilded stripes above and below a gilded rectangle with the title and author in black text. It reads Blood of the Martyrs Naomi Mitchison.

I finally spotted a Mitchison in the wild! @amalelmohtar.com would be proud. Is book hunting a different form of bird watching?

That set a record for shortest time between not knowing a place exists and very badly needing to go there

Serpentarius (because they kill snakes) as Secretarius. tl;dr they're cool ass birds

But an 18th c. Ornithologist thought it was because it looked like a scribe with a quill tucked behind his ear. Then I looked it up, and there's a possibility that someone misunderstood either "Sagittarius" (because they move like an archer) or

A Secretary Bird walking in the savanna. It's like an eagle on crane legs. It looks like it has on little black pants and a pen behind the ear.

I try to resist the "well, actually" urge, but this is so interesting. Typing makes total sense from the pose of the chick. I thought it was because of the white above black, like a 20th century secretary, kind of a pencil skirt look.

Good Store Founded by John and Hank Green with the belief that humanity can be good news. At Good Store, we’re searching the world for the best versions of the products that you use daily, like socks, coffee, or...

Do you want a brick and mortar store? If not, good.store has a soap subscription. Not sure if it fits into small, exactly, but it does the other criteria.

I picked it up thinking it was a stand alone and it was still excellent. I didn't feel like I was missing anything not having read the other book. Aptly Pratchett-like in that way, too.

"Show your marketing to one 13 year old boy" strikes again.

Page 47 of This is How You Lose the Time War, in cursive. Black ink except for the first two words "Atlantis sinks" which are red.

Today's finished page. My favorite detail on this page is that Atlantis is so variable it can't be completed.

Signature Move I didn’t realize when I started this manuscript project that my process was going to mirror elements of the book itself. Specifically, I’m time traveling. Not literally, unfortunately, …

Over at the blog: bookbinding nerdery, coincidence, and time travel!
theredbromeliad.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/signature-move/

A good critic can articulate the complexities that art makes you feel. A prime example is Robert Christgau's review of the Eagles' first album. www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-aow/ea...

And they're a remarkably good agricultural waste to edible calories converter

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I wonder if I even have a mind left; it feels like a #masala of evolutionary urges and vengeance, overlaid with post hoc justifications from my college philosophy classes. I sigh and return to planning my trip.

She should be afraid. I know I am.

Goddammit, what did I say about being stupid on the internet while using our name. The Council of Tims has ruled, your Tim privileges are revoked. You are renamed Mortimer.

Ah, Savannah. Home of the six seasons: autumn, winter, pollen, spring, summer, and science fiction. It's currently "All Summer in a Day". Probably be Dune tomorrow.

Something about this painting made me realize you did the Martian Chronicles paperback I got as a kid. If that book is how I fell in love with SF, your Martians and those towers are why I picked it up. Thank you so very much

I'm willing to bet that Long Black Veil and the Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia were on the list.

I did it! Blog post is pinned to my profile, if you're interested. I'm going to try to add to it every week or so.

The Purple Book I’m making a handwritten copy of one of my favorite books. It’s a long, complex, ridiculous project. The reasons why are at a point where too many emotions, events, influences, and obse…

An introduction to my big weird book art project. At some point I will write about why I put off telling people about it. theredbromeliad.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/the-purple-book/

I can't take any credit for the content of the text! That all belongs to @amalelmohtar.com and @maxgladstone.bsky.social in their gorgeous novel This is How You Lose the Time War. My project is making a hand bound manuscript using...see, this should be a blog post, lol

I got into handwriting last summer. I've been threatening to blog about this project since I started on it in February. I'm going to sit down and try to bang out an intro

Thanks! That's really encouraging because those are some of my earlier pages and all I can see are things I'd do differently now.

Handwritten copies of page 12 and 21 from This is How You Lose the Time War. Page 12 is mostly in red ink and a fairly naive print handwriting. Page 21 is mostly in blue ink and a decidedly extra cursive.

Two pages from my manuscript project