Cody R Brown

as someone writing an ecocritcal dissertation about "sf with weird tendencies" I relate to this very deeply

thank you!

always in heavy rotation between September and February

The Clientele rule

Finally finished reading this as I approach revisions of a dissertation chapter on Harrison. Great stuff and thank you for your scholarship!

Ninajirachi in Vancouver, BC
Dry Cleaning in Vancouver, BC (Nourished by Time opened)
Nick Cave in Tamworth, NSW
They Might Be Giants in Boise, ID (I got handed John's guitar pick and hugged them after the show) @tmbg.bsky.social
Andrew Bird in Boise, ID

yo @bb.wavelengths.online

hell yeah

this is basically what I did with a late-80s hiten steel frame MTB. refitted it for more crossbiking/commuting purposes with knobby tires, comfy upright handlebars, and a wald basket—been riding more on that bike lately than I have in years.

time for me to remind everybody that Samuel R. Delany's Nevèrÿon series exists, does not take place in a European milieu, AND contains what is often referred to as the first AIDs novel. it should be much more widely read, imo.

god bless the Kibbe dome

majorly bummed about the Jays, now back to hoping Mets or Mariners make it all the way next season

rip my mariners, go jays for the series

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lots of this in the ttrpg yt scene

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

for the NYT to give Doug Wilson any kind of platform is honestly shameful

there are many things that TransLink could do to improve service in Vancouver, but living near the SkyTrain and two major bus routes means I rarely wait long for service & I'm rarely more than 15-30 minutes ride from anywhere - now I can't imagine living somewhere without that level of service

Brilliant, looking forward to watching it! There's SO much to discuss in Murnane.

"What Was 'The Animal'?: Ontology and its Discontents" by Cary Wolfe (Keywords: Language; Lifeworld; Derrida) "How did human beings ever find it remotely plausible that the world is neatly riven by an ontological divide?"

This essay by Cary Wolfe might be useful, and provides lots of directions to pursue:

this is a basically undeniable take when reading robots in terms of their origin in Karel Čapek's play R.U.R.

I need the mariners or the jays to make it

Japanese Can Opener Gangy Kankiri Made in JAPAN. Please, hand wash and dry thoroughly when finished.

I'm a die-hard for the Ganji Kankiri carbonknifeco.com/en-ca/produc...

oh man I've been thinking about this a lot since seeing it last night - there's something there about a shift from PTA's early Altman relationship to what's happening now with the Pynchon streak in his work

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

time to root for the mariners and the jays for the postseason

or possibly Slaughterhouse-Five. in my late teens/early twenties I had a compulsion where I bought every copy of either that I found in thrift stores, eventually I had probably ten copies of each

What book have you bought the most copies of in your life?

a classic "Torment Nexus" scenario

Me: *through sobs* you can't just say everything is about climate change.... Please....

Weird theorists: *points at any weird fiction nearby* cli-fi hyperobject