Kip Manley @kiplet@social.tchncs.de
"There are eight million stories in the naked city. This will have been one of them."
Oh, hey, there's a lot more people here now.
"Secateurs is a great word. It has a shape. It has weight. It has a function. It is not ambiguous. It is also not a hammer, a rake, or a plow. It is not even scissors."
"Abroad, Desk Set’s other titles include The Knowledge Bureau (A tudás irodája, Hungary), His Other Wife (Su otra esposa, Spain), His Other Woman (England and Ireland), Woman Things (Cosas de mujeres, Argentina), The Woman Who Knows Everything (A Mulher Que Sabe Tudo, Portugal), Electronic Love (Amor Eletrônico, Brazil), and The Nearly Personal Assistant (A segretaria quasi privata, Italy)."
An abstract image from the Oregon coast #photo #photography https://mastodon.network/media/vGjWyyfJIEO-SjHwK2k
I should make casseroles for dinner more often. There's this whole stretch while you're busy cooking where all you have to do is drink wine and peek at the oven once or twice.
"It is based on an analogy comparing men to waffles and women to spaghetti."
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"Sandbox love never dies."
"Batou, I love you so much, but I hate your stupid fringe. I hate your retconed green eyes and I hate your obnoxious misogyny."
( oh the wine, the wine )
"Let art be a thing of privilege as the ancients decreed. My children they are not for the sword or the spreadsheet as the hardier stock of yore, let them have the bauble of the arts and so bind them by Joy."
Jorge Carrión and Carlos Fonseca on the nature of bookshops and much more.
"Whereas others collect stamps, coins or sports cards, Jorge Carrión collects bookshops."
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/bookshops-interview-jorge-carrion/
"The water fight, exploding geisha heads, Major on the tank, Major jumping off the roof. Those things are iconic, and if they weren't in there, people would be upset, myself included."
(Just so you know, I do a thing. In case it's the sort of thing you like. http://thecityofroses.com/trivia )
I'm digging this time lapse photo of birds I ran across. Looks like a tape tornado. Others here: http://timewheel.net/amazing-chronophotographs-capture-patterns-birds-flight/
"God bless America and the entire world!"
[ narrator voice ] He didn't.
“—and the flood was dark and red in that awful light, like rust.”
“Blood, I think you’ll find.”
“Rust is why blood’s red.”
“But fire’s what makes rust.”
“Oh, now that’s a reach.”
Reality and perception of reality.
Okay: Violence; violence, and power, in the context of yet somebody else walking up to the groaning boards of fantasy’s eternal wedding feast, still laden with the cold meats from Tolkien’s funeral, and cheekily joining everyone who’s trying to send the whole thing smashing to the ground just to hear the noise all that crockery will make. http://thecityofroses.com/trivia
