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

[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.