my lord, please direct me as to how my book can serve you. shall it be made into a waffle, to feed thee, or shall i melt it from a steel box into a ploughshare, that thou shall till the land, or should this one that is a stark raving porcupine with wings be made into a rumba? speak now or shaddap.
A black and white night photo taken with my camera trap. It shows the wall of the house in the background with a railroad tie step on the left of the frame and small landscaping rocks in-between the steps. A hose pipe is coiled unceremoniously on the right side of the frame. A raccoon is standing up close to the wall, perhaps even against the wall. It is facing the camera with its front paws held close together at chest height. Its black face mask and nose are visible. A tiny part of its bushy, ringed tail is also visible.
Same spot as the first photo this time the raccoon has its two front paws held down past its chest, it's looking up to the top left. Its teeth are visible through a slightly opened mouth.
Same spot as the other two photos as these are consecutive shots from the camera. The raccoon now has its mouth open wider, it is still standing up against the wall as if in a Police lineup.
You guessed it, same spot as the other photos, the raccoon is still standing, back against the wall (or very close to it) as if in a lineup. It looks like he, or she, has done this before.
This masked bandit looks like he knows the Police lineup drill. 🤣
Taken with rapid fire photo mode on the Browning Strike Force FHDR camera
#mammals
Appreciate cogent, well-written analysis in this day and age.
very excited for this to be out in the world: i wrote about repressed queerness in Elio, child surveillance in Inside Out 2, the post-Lasseter crisis, and the figure of the child in Pixar for The Baffler
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Leonora Carrington, The Lovers, 1987
why do people call out fiction when i make a comment pertaining to a real-world situation? like, i'm not saying i'm writing this as a novel. i'm making a joke that i hope people will build on. just curious.
That's a fictional movie.
how long until the headline "my AI friends started making plans and going places without me"
*wakes up screaming in the pod*
community, compassion, caring
this shouldn't feel out of the ordinary
it should be normal
yes, trees exist
i'm glad you realize this, but we have no leeway to crowdfund cryptids. i'm afraid they're on their own. also, it's clear to me their physiology is not up to surviving the future, as it's always blurred and messed up.
there is no sasquatch
let's push for helping squid attain an average life span of 75 years, not 4. this will undoubtedly help advance their civilization far enough along to sort out our problems as a way of curtailing future problems for them, too. i think we probably crowdsource this to completion in a couple days.
even the most corrupt raccoon would be content with goldfish
the worst and most incompetent people at the most important time in human history
well, it's time to start supporting the rise of the squid and the raccoons
When he turns from the water, it is no longer winter but spring. The apparition has performed a kind of sorcery that makes King gasp. The trees on the crags are in blossom and the ridge awash in low-stemmed wildflowers in purples and yellows and pinks, and there is the sun, like a honeyed apple coveted by the wide blue smile of sky, and in that light, there can be nothing ominous in the breeze lingering across the shore or the wavelets that runnel there, nor how the patter of the shorebirds, the stenciled pattern of their tracks, makes of them tiny fey folk, with their large eyes and delicate beaks, the way they celebrate the surf by mirroring its wash and withdrawal, their steps precise and perfect to shadow but not interrupt, as if practiced for twice a thousand years and these same birds here all those long centuries, even as the oystercatchers with their stern line and stillness feel so solemn to King he doubts not the truth of a sudden spring but laughs from a driftwood bench at the stoicism and how they shall not abandon their duty to what in all other beings in that season is a quickening and a frolic.
passed 90,000 words on the novel today
Alone in Berlin AMC+ Drama 4.4/4/5 103 min 2017 A group of soldiers fight off an alien invasion Included with your AMC+ subscription Man in dark hat and overcoat looming on the right hand side.
I watched almost all of Alone in Berlin waiting for the aliens to show up...and they never did. Thanks, aberrant description. Thanks a lot.
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Jeff on left and Enrigue on right behind a small table with big mics. The back of the heads of three spectators in front.
Really loved being Álvaro Enrigue's in-conversation partner at @powells.bsky.social tonight, to celebrate his new novel Now We Surrender. It's one of the best books I've read in the past few years. Poignant, brutal, funny, exciting, important. A must-buy. (photo by @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social)
A pink camellia and green leaves.
Today in the garden. These early bloomers (starts in January) usually get decimated by February ice or snow. Not this year!!
um... where to start
Comp title pitches = getting out of hand. I read one the other day that was like "The Old Testament meets Gravity's Rainbow mixed with War & Peace" and description was like "follows Crappy Do-Dah, who lives in a Brooklyn apartment peeing with the seat up as he slowly realizes cockroaches can talk."
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he said with fondness cause he likes second person
jaysus. yes, i know this isn't third person. that is the joke. now go out in the street and dance or something. so i don't have explain shit to you.
Let me tell ya--aliens want no part of this shitshow.
Aww what a sweetie.
aussie heeler doggo ready to herd people, cattle, babies, monsters, sticks, trees, insects, birds, popo, officers of the court, insurance adjusters, wildfires, streams, rivers lakes, elephant seals, and all else that resides upon the earth for it must be herded and heel-nipped, heel-nipped and herded by doggo
best doggo i photographed today, but best doggo i *saw* was the longest corgi ever, which unspooled itself as it walked toward me til it seemed the length of a giant centipede & i marveled at how it managed to hold itself up without a third set of legs in the middle and it gave me a look of disdain
Michael Caine and Aubrey Plaza facing away from each other, with title BEST SELLERS below.
Watched Best Sellers (2021) with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social and we both thought it an underrated film that deserved better reviews when it came out. Smart, sharp, with unexpected twists and turns, along with good performances from Michael Caine and Aubrey Plaza. Well-shot, too.
yellow skunk cabbage blossom
orange striped fish with long snout
glasses left on a stump, surrounded by greenery
oh who this? this who. this who fungi lookin' like a fritter, like a fritter gained consciousness and sat up on a log and said who this, this is who.
Quite a lot of lovely texture seen on the Reed College Texture Gathering Expedition that @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social and I went on yesterday. Our findings will be presented at the 2027 London Architecture College's "Colloquium on the Quantum Loss of Tactile Experience in the 21st Century".
