David Ellison

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

21.05.2025 22:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

the empty string is invisible to the naked eye

16.05.2025 17:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

07.05.2025 21:45 — 👍 43    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

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

16.02.2025 17:42 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Drinking an outrageous amount of Taiwanese oolong lately

13.02.2025 00:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

05.02.2025 00:33 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

02.02.2025 18:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

01.02.2025 21:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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

12.12.2024 18:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

05.12.2024 19:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

26.11.2024 02:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

09.11.2024 21:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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

06.11.2024 02:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

17.10.2024 19:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Seaside Variations, by N Chambers 5 track album

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

30.10.2023 22:16 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

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

26.10.2023 23:38 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

I really like their “Colours of Air” album

25.10.2023 21:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

25.10.2023 20:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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

My sweetheart Sylvia

18.10.2023 16:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Demand a fair and timely union election for Bandcamp United Workers at Bandcamp, an online record store and music community that prioritizes support to artists, are unionizing with OPEIU Local 1010. Workers filed for an election with the National Labor Relatio...

hi everyone. please sign this petition encouraging songtradr to recognize bandcamp united: actionnetwork.org/petitions/so...

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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

03.10.2023 19:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

03.10.2023 17:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

27.09.2023 21:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

21.09.2023 21:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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

19.09.2023 18:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0