David Ellison

Fredric Jameson on Gene Wolfe:
"The work of Gene Wolfe, richly developing in the spaces between fantasy and SF, can perhaps serve as a central exhibit in these debates: for myself, I acknowledge its quality but feel a deep reluctance to abandon these generic distinctions."

I just saw Wormrot at northwest terror fest earlier this month and they were outrageously good! Really blew me away

the empty string is invisible to the naked eye

A shelf full of many books written by Gene Wolfe

Happy Birthday to the late, great Gene Wolfe! Here’s to many reads, and many rereads.

The cover of Russell Hoban’s novel “Riddley Walker,” showing a puppet against a white background. A cat looks at the camera from behind the book.

Best book I’ve read so far this year

Drinking an outrageous amount of Taiwanese oolong lately

A black cat with very long white whiskers and green eyes looks toward the camera

Shiva came into my life unexpectedly about a month after my beloved Sylvia left it, and I’m so glad she did

I thought it was worth it and I'm glad I did! But it doesn't really "pick up," exactly, I just got better at reading it by the time I got to the end

yes! I loved it but it was very slow going, I kind of chipped away at it for a couple months until I got to the end

Last night I read an explanation of Jameson’s “ideologeme” as being like a phoneme for class discourse and it felt like a light bulb coming on

daydreaming about a multi year sabbatical to work on my emacs config and catch up on reading

A memorial clay paw print from a cat, with text reading “Sylvia”

A grey and brown tabby cat looking at the camera and lounging happily on a bedspread.

A beautiful grey and brown tabby cat with green eyes

Picked up my dearest Sylvia’s ashes today. I miss her so much

Two books side by side: “Titus Groan” by Mervyn Peake, and “The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act” by Fredric Jameson

Reading all day long to get in the mood for the death metal show later

A gray tabby cat relaxing on a couch

On the left, a man wearing headphones and glasses smiles at the camera sitting on a couch. On the right, above his shoulder, a beautiful gray tabby cat sleeps facing the camera on the back of three couch.

On the right, a man sitting in front of a couch smiles at the camera. In the center, a happy tabby cat rubs her head on the corner of his glasses.

A beautiful gray tabby cat rests on a blanket. In front of her is a rainbow catnip toy. She seems to be bathed in a halo of light.

My beloved Sylvia left the world last night and I will love her forever

A gray and brown tabby cat asleep on the back of a sofa. Her paws are folded and she looks so cozy

My beautiful Sylvia

Seaside Variations, by N Chambers 5 track album

Two new Norm Chambers releases on the anniversary of his passing 🙏 panabrite.bandcamp.com/album/seasid...

A listing for a ten-minute conference talk titled "Why Nabokov would use Org-Mode if he were writing today"

This talk title from the Emacs conference is my sleeper agent activation phrase

Colours Of Air, by loscil // lawrence english 8 track album

I really like their “Colours of Air” album

Ambient musicians Loscil and Lawrence English performing in front of a deep orange screen

Ambient musicians Loscil and Lawrence English performing in front of a cloudy purple screen

Ambient musicians Loscil and Lawrence English performing in front of a screen of blue, pink, and orange

Ambient musicians Loscil and Lawrence English performing in front of a screen of grey, pink, and white

Loscil and Lawrence English last night

A brown tabby cat lying on a blanket by a window, in a sunbeam

My sweetheart Sylvia

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drafting a post: the "rules based international order" was when all the linguists implemented their models in prolog. okay never mind, bear with me please i'm still working on it

had one of those one hour "technical phone screen" job interviews early this morning and my beloved cat jumped up on the table right behind me and threw up on camera 20 minutes in, i completely lost track of what i was talking about

I heard a good sentence the other day with "the ways in which that," double complementizer style. Really wish I'd written it down

Kai Ashante Wilson's novellas "The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps" and "A Taste of Honey"

The cover of Stuart Dempster’s album “Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel”

A tabby cat relaxing on a couch

One of my crackpot theories is that my cat likes my drone records. Today I put Stuart Dempster on and she lies down on the couch right in the best listening spot where the speakers point