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?

[princessofgeeks]

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

[sanguinity]

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

[ride_4ever]

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

[gwynnega]

I do like the title of that dybbuk book!

[yhlee]

support support

[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

[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.

[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!

[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.

[skygiants]

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

[newredshoes]

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