Ian Christopher Hooper

First ride of the season.

Simple and elegant. A Korean moon jar by artist Lee Dong Sik on display at the Denver Art Museum.

Sheer unadulterated truth.

FUCK ELON!

Lion dance for lunar new year at the Sharetea in my neighborhood.

Beautiful language, perfect pacing and an elegant ending. This is a great story, chef.

A robotic creature standing amid the ruins of human civilization after learning that man destroyed himself.

By Basil Wolverton.

Good.

Every commercial for AI is basically “look, you’re a fucking moron, but we’ll help you fake it!” and it feels like they really do get their target audience.

My heart is broken, and it’s only been 5 days.

Space 1999 #5 (1976). The cover shows John Koenig & Paul Morrow (?) in space suits piloting a ship. Art by John Byrne.

Sometimes I just wanna read a Space 1999 comic

Four stories in and this book is a delight.

Here at the Labyrinth of Infinite Horrors our goal is to maximize unregretted user minutes

2025 has arrived.

COSMOS by Carl Sagan

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20/20

2041: getting paid to write stories that are never read by humans, fed into a great computational silo as a source of entropy; thoughtcoal

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19/20

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18/20

A haunted house but it’s an email from the Paris Review with the subject line “Congratulations…” but then you open it and see the rest: “…to our contest winners!” And that’s how you find out your piece was rejected.

Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr

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17/20

This is the way.

Breaking out of Beginner’s Spanish by Joseph J Keenan

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16/20

Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque

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15/20

On the coin’s reverse, an owl stands to the right, its head turned to the front and tilted slightly. Its wing and three tail feathers are clearly delineated in high detail. There is a two-leafed olive sprig in the top left corner and a crescent, possibly a waning moon, above the owl's wing. The inscription, located bottom right, is an abbreviation of ATHENAION, "of the Athenians." The owl is struck in high relief and framed on all four sides by the shape of the die. Athenian "Owls” were minted in Athens for over 400 years, beginning in the 510s BC. This coin is one of ten Athenian tetradrachms found in a hoard of coins, ingots, and jewellery discovered in 1967 on the Jordanian-Syrian border in the region of Hauran (near the ancient city of Bostra). The hoard contained coins from over twenty mints, the majority from four areas: Athens (31), Cyprus (21), southwest Asia Minor (15) and the Thrace-Macedonian area (13). The distribution and style of the Athenian coins date the hoard's burial to around 445 BC.

Owl of Athena! 🦉❤️

Silver tetradrachm coin minted in Athens c. 475-465 BC.

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That’s a perfect specimen. If anyone but the Getty had it, you’d suspect it was a fake.

My pilgrim? Billy
My time? Unstuck
My slaughterhouse? 5

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14/20

Die Hard is a Christmas movie in the same way that Xenophon is a philosopher.

I’ve been meaning to read this one…

“A story is like an origami: the art isn’t in the paper, it’s in the folds.”