I see the wings in everything

[sovay]

My life at the moment exists in irregular alternation between nights I can avoid the construction with other stress and mornings visited by the asphalt roller of the apocalypse. We have a steel plate in front of our house and a sort of trench across the block. I slept on and off in the morning and toward evening went for a walk.



The milkweed is turning ghostly.



These flowers looked hand-painted and were orbiting with bees.



The hibiscus was crystallizing with pollen.



Last night, Hestia made a persuasive argument that we should feed her—again—instead of watching It Came from Outer Space (1953).

Have some links.

1. I wish Adam Schlesinger were around to appreciate Sub-Radio's "Stacy's Dad" (2022).

2. Please anyone with sense make a movie from the photo which leads off this interview with Chloë Sevigny.

3. By stumbling into one of its chapters, I have just discovered the full open-access text of The Dybbuk Century: The Jewish Play That Possessed the World (ed. Debra Caplan and Rachel Merrill Moss, 2023), my sole complaint being that I feel it stole its title from Gwynne Garfinkle or Rebecca Fraimow or Jeannelle M. Ferreira.

4. I have not yet listened to Michael Symmons Roberts' Danger 2023 (2023), but I will be fascinated to see if it works with its conceit as directly as Richard Hughes' Danger (1924).

5. Because everyone is sharing it and I can't draw Jack Griffin covered in cheese snack crumbs: "The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent."

Comments

[moon_custafer]

#2: A cocky new reporter with a mysterious past joins the staff of a 1920s newspaper.

#5: So it’s kind of like the opposite of Gentian Violet?

[sovay]

#2: A cocky new reporter with a mysterious past joins the staff of a 1920s newspaper.

Not just the soundtrack, but the narrative action has to include Ma Rainey's "Prove It on Me."

#5: So it’s kind of like the opposite of Gentian Violet?

Yes! Tartrazine does technically stain, but alters the refractive index of living tissue in the process to make it more homogeneous to the passage of photons, which is literally Griffin's shtick in The Invisible Man. It doesn't quite work like glass in water, but that's not Wells' fault.

P.S. I don't know if you are on Bluesky, but I thought you should see this skeet and then thread from spatch.

[moon_custafer]

I’m not on Bluesky, but I’m delighted to learn of the semi-existence of WOCH.

(I need to read Gordon Korman’s Beware of the Fish. I gather part of the plot involves some boarding-school students having no idea that the homemade tv transmitter one of them built is powerful enough to jam local airwaves.)

[sovay]

(I need to read Gordon Korman’s Beware of the Fish. I gather part of the plot involves some boarding-school students having no idea that the homemade tv transmitter one of them built is powerful enough to jam local airwaves.)

I do not believe I have read that one and it sounds great.

Oh! spatch also belongs to a comics forum which is now posting the daily run of Daniel Pinkwater's Norb (1989–90). I had never seen any of it before. I do not belong to the comics forum, but I found someone who mostly legibly scanned most of the Sunday strips and it is indeed immensely Pinkwater. There's a slightly weird bit about Japan which I chalk up to the '80's and then there's the Bernstein Triangle, the undersea city of New Hoboken, and recaps like "John Crum, international rascal, has turned out to be a disguised intergalactic rascal from a planet of worm entrepreneurs." ("Paskudnik! Has the shipment of illegal baboon hides arrived?" – "In the warehouse with the no-tax-paid halvah, Chief.")

[moon_custafer]

P.3 “Look everybody! Mr. Natural is back!”

[anna_wing]

I have found this and begun reading it. Thank you thank you thank you.

[sovay]

I have found this and begun reading it. Thank you thank you thank you.

You're welcome!

[alexxkay]

One of my treasures is a copy of the sole Norb collection.

Re #1, I saw elsenet just today, "Stacy's aunt has got what I want." (Just that one line, not a video.)

[sovay]

One of my treasures is a copy of the sole Norb collection.

Just from the Sunday strips, I can see why you treasure it.

[princessofgeeks]

I am so sorry about the ongoing noise. What a nightmare.

[sovay]

I am so sorry about the ongoing noise. What a nightmare.

Thank you. It has now been actually six months. We are fairly confident it caused one set of our next-door neighbors to move out in the middle of a month. It just feels like so much stolen time.

[sanguinity]

Massaging dorito powder into mouse bellies: I went in all skepticism, and came out thinking that was a pretty cool technique!

[sovay]

Massaging dorito powder into mouse bellies: I went in all skepticism, and came out thinking that was a pretty cool technique!

It's so neat to me that it works, I hope it works without long-term ill effect, and it does make me wonder what Dorito consumption has made the inside of the human digestive system look like for decades.

[ride_4ever]

"Hestia made a persuasive argument..." as cats do. 🐈

[sovay]

"Hestia made a persuasive argument..." as cats do.

We reached a compromise.

[asakiyume]

Getting to yes!!

[gwynnega]

I do like the title of that dybbuk book!

[sovay]

I do like the title of that dybbuk book!

Right?

[yhlee]

support support

[sovay]

support support

*hugs*

[thisbluespirit]

The flowers are beautiful! So sorry about the continuing construction torment! *hugs*

Funnily enough, I was just coming here to put a random tumblr link on your last post, and then the last post turned out to be this one you'd just made. tumblr post, anyway: https://www.tumblr.com/ancientcharm/749086552131534848?source=share

[sovay]

The flowers are beautiful! So sorry about the continuing construction torment!

*hugs*

Thank you! It's bonkers! We ran out of street to dig up back in June!

Funnily enough, I was just coming here to put a random tumblr link on your last post, and then the last post turned out to be this one you'd just made. tumblr post, anyway

Very much appreciated! I have visited Baiae, but not underwater.

[pameladean]

Milkweed pods are one of my favorite things. I love that photo.

I didn't realize that Hestia could look so winsome! I think she has done so in narrative here at least once before, but the evidence is amazing.

P.

[sovay]

Milkweed pods are one of my favorite things. I love that photo.

Thank you!

I didn't realize that Hestia could look so winsome! I think she has done so in narrative here at least once before, but the evidence is amazing.

She can be a most melting kitten.

[selkie]

Now I want to write a book called The Dybbuk Century !
I have never seen Hestia starring as Helpless Kitton Baby. Look who's good at ingenue parts!

[sovay]

Now I want to write a book called The Dybbuk Century !

You should! It would be great!

I have never seen Hestia starring as Helpless Kitton Baby. Look who's good at ingenue parts!

The hardest done by. The most innocent. And opaque.

[asakiyume]

I first saw the dye story in the Guardian and maaaannnnnnn... some discoveries are just. so. weird. And amazing. (And/but also: how have we been using this as a common food dye and are only just now noticing this?

"Stacy's Dad" is **hilarious**, will share with my kids STAT. (I loved "menage a garage.")

Nobody argues for anything quite as persuasively as a cat.

[sovay]

I first saw the dye story in the Guardian and maaaannnnnnn... some discoveries are just. so. weird. And amazing. (And/but also: how have we been using this as a common food dye and are only just now noticing this?

I don't know! I gathered from reading both the article and the original paper that no one had explored this particular application of tartrazine before, but I don't know how they worked around to it now.

"Stacy's Dad" is **hilarious**, will share with my kids STAT. (I loved "menage a garage.")

"Stacy, can't you see? It's Mr. Stacy's Mom for me."

Nobody argues for anything quite as persuasively as a cat.

It's true. Their arguments are incontrovertible.

[skygiants]

or from you perhaps even more likely!! (but thank you for linking, I will absolutely be reading)

[sovay]

or from you perhaps even more likely!! (but thank you for linking, I will absolutely be reading)

Aw! Thank you. (And you're welcome! Enjoy!)

[newredshoes]

I love these colors and textures you've captured, and also, of course, Hestia.

[sovay]

I love these colors and textures you've captured, and also, of course, Hestia.

Thank you!

(Hestia's texture is sleek.)