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Who’s up listening to magpie calls on YouTube. This one does sound like a wind-up toy 🐾 “Let’s drop everything and go to Crete” reminds me of the dream destination in every heist movie that the heroes never quite make it to

I caught up on everything at once, from Brick to Mr. Brightside 🐾 But Toru’s emotions are too subdued for a song, except when he’s alone in a well and imagining an argument he had 5 years ago. The well must be like taking a shower in terms of bringing up embarrassing past events, but 100x worse

“Did you ever hear the tragedy of the shit monkeys of Shit Town. I thought not” I loved not only the fable and the attack but Toru’s feeling in the aftermath. Noboru poisons you like looking at Twitter 🐾

We clown on Toru for being passive and unsure about anything in his life, but I relate to soothing yourself by making tomato sauce and hoping your problems disappear in the meantime 🐾

An extratemporal sunrise teaches Mamiya what “homeland” is: friends, neighbors, flowers blooming around your building, a favorite snack (rice puff in oak leaf, or local equivalent). He sadly learns this as “homeland” sends him away to do evil 🐾 I got some flashbacks to Gravity’s Rainbow book club

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Babe, relax. We didn’t have sex. It was just hours of erotic intimacy that she’ll never forget 🐾

Malta sighting on the art desk 🐾

I enjoy how many scenes rely on phone calls and being disconnected without them. You don’t have to list your distinguishing external characteristics anymore 🐾

The pandemic special This book is kinda Lynchian so far, but the horniness is way more awkward (it’s fun) 🐾

This is such a cool project. LOTE is one of my favorite books. It’s even better than everyone says: Please read it! Especially if you’ve ever hung out with art history people

[whispering to wife while watching Barry Lyndon when Barry Lyndon first appears on the screen:] that’s candlelight

this is my Barbie. the girls will show up in striped nightgowns with big round water flasks to get our commemorative ghostly harpoon

Rune Knight Celes, Final Fantasy VI.⚔️🎇 Trying out alcohol-based markers this time, interesting difference in behavior from the water-based. 🤔

Hi! This was the last post about Earthsea, thank you very much for such a wide response. You can see the project in full, see how the illustrations look in book format, the cover, the forshchats, the sketches that were not included, and the searches in my profile on Behance.

Bonne nuit

**Guess you know I** waited for you, girl

I heard friends saying something about French Final Fantasy so I’m checking it out

I finished a rewatch of Mushishi. My favorite anime and it’s not close. You can’t beat the “cool guy smoking magic cigarettes” concept

I finished Love/Aggression by @theworldsgreatestwriter.com and loved it - the ending blew me away. Really glad I had a bit of this hilarious book as a treat each day. Wish I could play Mario Kart in the multiplicity room of the house!

Get thee to a nunnery ✝️

After 6 months of work, 4 VCRs, and an official translation, I am pleased to share my RF rip of Yukio Ninagawa's staging of Euripides's Medea, a tape which has never been transferred. archive.org/details/ojo....

reposting my translation of Sappho fragment 16 here

So many bangers today! 🚀 Part of the reason I love Geli is it means we’ll get psychedelic about tarot and the Titans instead of calculus, as a treat

I was thinking about this scene during the diner part of “Listening to the Toilet” 🚀 Except it would be “Have you heard of the Soniferous Aether? Have you ever experienced the sound-shadow?” Book 4 is so insane (complimentary) that it almost feels easier. Like I’m just along for the ride

“When the War came, some people thought it unpatriotic of GE to have given Germany an edge like that. But nobody with any power. Don’t worry.” lol 🚀 I think diversions like the Byron chapter are some of my favorite parts. Sad that the robots our actual mechanized future aren’t crabs that chew gum

I’m gonna miss reading a book that’s so angry about war and complicity but also gives you the details of a lesbian elephant 69 situation 🚀

Really intrigued by the workings of Killer Dog Town 🚀 “If there are heresiarchs among the dogs, they are careful about suggesting out loud any extra-canine source for these sudden eruptions of lust to kill that take them over… But in private they point to the remembered image of one human…”

Who makes carburetors strain? Who leaves for the astral plane? 🚀

Pig Slothrop blasted on “a glazed jug of some liquid brain damage flavored with dill and coriander” is so good 🚀 I loved all the melancholy drifter stuff too. “isn’t that every paranoid’s wish? to perfect methods of immobility?” The curfew speaker becoming part of a kid’s summer nostalgia is brutal

“Felix,” the clarinet player asks the tuba player, “what have we fallen among?” Felix is eating and a banana, and living for the moment. 🚀 Loved how we got both antics and an abstract, kinda moving death scene today. “nearly about to burn through the last whispering veil to equal A”

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Slothrop having his personal crisis on the Anubis 🚀

So you don’t end up on Google or YouTube like me: Baby piranhas are pretty small, like an inch long. I don’t think a glass dildo is the best environment for them! 🚀

I caught up and wowww that big chapter was jaw dropping! 🚀 A guy desperate to make any narrative out of his life. I struggled a bit through part 3, but this felt like hitting a flow state in the long jog of this book. “Now, too late, when at last he wanted to act, there was nothing to act on.”

“I only took what his freedom is worth to him” is what Judge Holden would say after stealing your weed 🚀

Enzian is my favorite of the Zone characters. The zany stuff is fun but this part about only existing “in a statistical way” will stick with me! 🚀

[Werner Herzog voice:] “This is like the very earliest days of the mercantile system … Passages are long and hazardous. Loss in transit is a part of life. You have had a glimpse of the Ur-Markt.” 🚀

Let them cry like cheated lovers, Let their cries find only wind. Trains are meant for night and ruin. We are meant for song, and sin. I loved the folksy elements of this chapter: this song, the little toys coming out of darkness toward the fire, the overall fairytaleness of Geli 🚀

I read sections 14, 15, and 16 today, which was bonkers. 🚀 Loved Roger having a Gob Bluth “It’s like my heart is getting hard” moment. The Dutch guy in 1650 spending all day aiming his gun at an egg will stick with me. I can’t believe this is all just the warmup to this story

The jokes were really hitting today: The cruel dog-experimentation program called ARF. The dark “oh God” of Pointsman’s STEM brotherhood smile - I feel like today he’d be working on AI to replace social events or something 🚀

I’m keeping up but GR ranks really low on “books easy to read at work.” 🚀 Jessica’s great: Who has never chainsmoked out the window at night and dissociated thinking about alternate realities

The character names in Gravity’s Rainbow are so fun. Trying to think of what mine would be. Muriel Crenellate. Teireisia Clanger 🚀

I’m getting close to finishing a Dorothea Brooke run in Bloodborne. She has a saw from cottage construction, but naturally she’s an arcane build 🛖

Love how Peter and Sally sink back into their friendship, retreating to a corner to make fun of people 💐 Peter flipping his knife in turbo mode when Sally says C liked him best. Incredible ending, and this book’s a new fave for me! Kinda wish I’d read it when I was young. Thanks, all 💎

“every one was unreal in one way; much more real in another” 💐 Parties really do have that feeling! When I pet the cat/dog or work the grill, I’ll think of it now as “going Ellie Henderson mode.” Richard is a big time sweetie for talking to her

Peter: “Bartlett pears” The Morrises: 🫨🫨 This was such a dark punchline after Septimus, I loved it 💐 The paragraph setting the scene in the restaurant is crazy good

“So that to know her, or anyone, one must seek out the people who completed them; even the places.” ✨💐 Definitely agree it’s a weird transition to Peter. It’s funny to learn both mother and daughter communed with universal life energy on the bus