Local businesses are in business!!

My five year old had been proposed to by another kindergartener (her second proposal of the year, she has accepted both), they've decided to have 2 children, and one of them will be named Rumi Hangglider. This is making up for having the KPDH soundtrack stuck in my head

Ok it's no northern lights, but the sun coming in under the clouds in the Bay area right now and shining off the rain washed cities is pretty spectacular

vibe report from a protest, from the threat of clash, from waiting to see what's going to happen. A pulse of dread, a pulse of boredom, and people in Oakland determined to throw grit in the gears.

What's going on in the Bay Area this week? Check out this snapshot of COYOTE's weekly calendar of hand-picked events to get you off the couch! This week we've got wrestling lesbians, an anime convention, pop-up pastries, and more. To see the full listings, check out www.coyotemedia.org.

Two Heyday books BANNED: 1) Dorsey Nunn's memoir What Kind of Bird Can't Fly: banned in all California state prisons. We are appealing; the CDRC has not responded. 2) Obi Kaufmann's The State of Water, about CA's water systems & rivers, can no longer be sold in national parks. Federal censorship!

@bayareacurrent.bsky.social i love the events you are highlighting! Wish I could make the Vinelands concert, sounds funnnn (and love an afterparty...) bayareacurrent.com/email/ed8ac7...

more good bay area bookstore news! New bookstore for East San Jose! www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...

I'm delighted that the aurora borealis is bringing pink unity to my timeline and cleansing the everyone's mad at Chuck Schumer energy of the last couple days.

Getting some nice #northernlights action in the #Oakland hills right now. Remember to add your photos to www.aurorasaurus.org #aurora

Does anyone have photos from the coast guard Island protest that @oaklandreviewofbooks.org could publish alongside a vibe report from the conflict zone? #oakland #iceout

Thanks Nate!

This week's calendar is up! You may un-bate your breath, un-clench your "scroll down the calendar" finger that you've been keeping limber, and cast your eyes upon the wonders that is the town's literary abundance: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/

This is the greatest opportunity the skeptics movement has ever had.

There’s no election And no soccer practice so The nights feel longer.

☀️🌧️The Bay Area Basks in the Sun, Before an Atmospheric River Rolls in This Week “Folks should be prepared for a wet system, we’re only expecting minor flooding concerns. We don’t anticipate any major river flooding.” @kqedscience.bsky.social @kqednews.kqed.org www.kqed.org/science/1999...

New blog post on one of Oakland's (actually Piedmont's) more dramatic rock quarries

Does anyone have photos from the coast guard Island protest that @oaklandreviewofbooks.org could publish alongside a vibe report from the conflict zone? #oakland #iceout

I'm reading poems at Tamarack in downtown Oakland as part of the Tritone poetry series this Friday 11/14! New poems! Great hosts! Drinks and food! Doors at 6, reading at 6:30.

Today's Featured Poem: "The Last Sea Cow's Testimony" by Brandon Kilbourne from Natural History published by Graywolf Press Read here: poems.com/poem/the-las...

"We sell to the affluent business traveller and his vacationing wife in a billion, billion different futures. This is the most radical, dynamic and thrusting business venture in the entire multidimensional infinity of space/time/probability ever."

Rented a ten year old car for a long drive tomorrow and I gotta say, I prefer dumb cars to smart cars by a mile. Maybe the back up camera is a win on the car tech front, but all the beeping and auto braking and wtf else they put in new cars drives me insane. I know how to drive! Stop interrupting!

🚨LA-based journalists/journos willing to relocate to the west coast: We're looking for a senior news editor to help run our news operation in downtown LA! If you're well-versed in breaking news and want to work with really wonderful humans, APPLY! workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

Covering half of parking lots with solar canopies in the USA would generate ~1.4 terawatts. ☀️🇺🇸 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Before breakfast, I successfully submitted an electronic application for an Indian visa, and now I feel like I can do anything.

been trying linkedin again because so much 'professional' work happens there and i have a hunch that the platform is possibly even more fashy than X due to how its algorithms work & the cultural language that the platform disciplines in its posters. curious if anyone's read something about this?

I wrote two hard emails today.

hop on in, ORB is going into NATURE this week

LOVE this mostly because it so vividly recreates a night hike that now I don't have to do it. SPOOKY DIABLO SPIDERS!!

I heard Diego explain this when I visited last month and it was ASTONISHING and deeply informative for anyone working in urban ecologies. Tune in!!

the Cardi Spelling Bee is cancelled for tonight!! Bees don't fly in the rain, it's true. So what are you going to instead? The Berkeley Slam with Aparna Paul? Bookseller banter at Local Economy? So many choices!

What is a vibe report? www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/what-is-a-vi...

My current working theory: the period in which baby Ians entered adolescence and young manhood coincided with that sliver of British history where northern working class lads had real access to art school.

This is my current obsession now, the Ian Problem. Obviously there are lots of lead singers called John, Paul and Michael - but those are long-established top ten names, Ian only hit the top ten in England once (1964).

The vibe was collegial, collagy, webby, gravitational, gooey, Gorey, and somewhat furry

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Being a basic white girl for a minute, the baked apple croissant at Starbucks, especially warmed up, is really good

An autoreply that just says “I don’t have an assistant”

word on the street is that "ORB calendar is an intervention against bad rizz" you're welcome www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/

Hey, east bay literary event lovers, @soleilho.com and Daniel Lavery, both of @coyotemedia.org and Chrysalis, will be in conversation about Danny's new book TOMORROW ONLY in Berkeley at @pegasusbooks.bsky.social ! pegasusbookstore.com/event/2025-1...

Getting ready to put together next week's calendar for @oaklandreviewofbooks.org ... Any great east bay events with a literary or place-focused bent, send then my way!

What could be better than sharing work with a creative community, and then stitching that together with MORE writing, talking about writing, thinking about what we can do together next

Settler capitalism has been so effective that the very identities of Indigenous people have been usurped, misconstrued, and weaponized. @dinagw.bsky.social’s WHO GETS TO BE INDIAN goes over the commodification of Native American identity, and it’s out now!

Out now from @beaconpress.bsky.social !

had fun talking to Stephen Witt about what the data center buildout means for the planet link.newyorker.com/view/677c539...

Link in bio 🍂🍁 Almost sold out! Sunday 11/2 at 2pm, we’re busting out our favorite pumpkin spices and peeping fall colors at the LA River! 💛🧡 join us! #losangeles #lariver #fallcolors #lahikes #nativeplants #californianativeplants

www.terrain.org/submit/sowel... @terrainorg.bsky.social & @texastech.bsky.social University Press invites book-length manuscript submissions of nonfiction (essays, memoir, etc) in English on themes about & related to the natural world by writers who have published no more than one book in any genre.

Niche ask but does anyone personally or professionally know Marion Rankine, the author of Brolliology? I JUST WANNA TALK. bookshop.org/p/books/brol...

Use this, combined with @bayareacurrent.bsky.social's excellent texting templates, to organize your friends and show up places this weekend. There's stuff happening on Halloween just very little of it involved literary things, so for Friday, check @coyotemedia.org, @oaklandside.org, & The Current!

Still time to get some California color in before the season is over! modernhiker.com/10-beautiful...