Fredric Jameson on Gene Wolfe: "The work of Gene Wolfe, richly developing in the spaces between fantasy and SF, can perhaps serve as a central exhibit in these debates: for myself, I acknowledge its quality but feel a deep reluctance to abandon these generic distinctions."

the empty string is invisible to the naked eye

Happy Birthday to the late, great Gene Wolfe! Here’s to many reads, and many rereads.

Best book I’ve read so far this year

Drinking an outrageous amount of Taiwanese oolong lately

Shiva came into my life unexpectedly about a month after my beloved Sylvia left it, and I’m so glad she did

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

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

Picked up my dearest Sylvia’s ashes today. I miss her so much

Reading all day long to get in the mood for the death metal show later

My beloved Sylvia left the world last night and I will love her forever

My beautiful Sylvia

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

This talk title from the Emacs conference is my sleeper agent activation phrase

Loscil and Lawrence English last night

My sweetheart Sylvia

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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

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

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

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