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Finished reading: The Hungry Gods by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚

🍿 One Battle After Another, (finally).

Finished reading: Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler 📚

Jarrell Miller Got His Hair Punched Off And Became A Hero by Dave McKenna Laughed super hard at this article and included YouTube link. . . . Miller stood up during the break and faced the crowd and with a massive smile ripped off the semi-detached rug off his head. He tossed it to the crowd the …

Finished reading: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚

So much snow.

"between beauty and blind rage": Writing at Welcome to Hell World, Christopher Harris hits on something that I’ve been thinking about a lot recently: how to reconcile my desire to seek comfort and joy in distractions with the feeling that the current moment demands I stay constantly alert and outraged lest I fail to properly …

The kids are alright… On January 13, Graham Granger, a film and performing arts major, was arrested for criminal mischief when he ripped the art, made with the help of AI, from the wall of a university gallery and ate it “in a reported protest,” according to the police report. “He was …

Jackpot. Now I just need to find all my slammers.

The eternal offering of Toadies' “Possum Kingdom” by Niko Stratis I love this song and this essay so much. This is the truth of a story that matters less to me than how it felt when the song belonged to me and my disastrous confidence, when “Possum Kingdom” and others on the radio were …

Finished reading: Why We Love Baseball by Joe Posnanski 📚⚾️

RIP Kaleb Horton. : I did not know Kaleb Horton and, though I read and admired his work at times, his was not a name that I remembered well enough to seek out or follow around over the web enough to keep up with. Nevertheless, I find myself significantly saddened by his unexpected passing as I’ve been reading …

Finished reading: Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff 📚

Finished reading: Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick 📚

Finished reading: Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald 📚

Finished reading: Joe by Larry Brown 📚

Finished reading: Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer 📚

Throw natural ⚾️: Absolutely loved this interview with Leo Mazzone in The Atlantic today. An Old-School Pitching Coach Says I Told You So by Michael Powell No one knows, objectively, what’s best for the health and longevity of baseball pitchers, and there’s certainly something to be said for all the new …

Finished reading: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt 📚

Finished reading: Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg 📚

Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚

🔗 I Want To Focus On My Salad by Drew Magary What a great power it is to make another person feel loved. There’s a world out there that you and I have little control over. America, in particular, is a problem I can never solve. But in my home, and in yours, there is another world. Smaller. More …

A perfectly on-point description of the current Google search experience from Tom Scocca in the Flaming Hydra newsletter. When I type “baryshnikov”into a Google search, what I mean is what I’ve meant ever since Google first appeared and began conquering the search industry: out of everything people …

Finished reading: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer 📚

Finished reading: The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef 📚 Had a tough time with this one considering the author provides the following consecutive examples of this mindset in practice: Elon Musk, Trevor Bauer, and Jeff Bezos. The Scout Mindset, at least in some cases, seems to be a secret code for how to …

Finished reading: Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer 📚 And just like that I’m sucked back into Area X and planning another re-read of the series, now with additional fascinating backstory.

😥 📺 Really going to miss the show Evil.

Notes, 2024-08-19: It’s been quite some time since I’ve done anything with any of my various blogs. I got super busy with work and, since a lot of that busy-ness deals with writing words and thinking about topics, the blogs tend to suffer when it picks up like that. But since things have slowed back down a …

It’s amazing what a few hours off on a Friday afternoon can do for one’s spirits.

Finished reading: Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright 📚

Finished reading: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport 📚

That feeling when the deadlines were off in the distance but now they’re right here. And they’ve multiplied!

Amazing clip from yesterday’s Fox MLB broadcast at Rickwood Field in Birmingham. Reggie Jackson given an uninterrupted chance to describe his experience playing there. It’s so rare to see this kind of truth in modern sports broadcasts, but Mr. October has always been able to seize a …

RIP Willie Mays, who "was baseball" ⚾️: Of the many Willie Mays tributes I read through today I, unsurprisingly, thought Ray Ratto’s at Defector was the best.  Willie Mays, who died Tuesday at the richly merited old age of 93, was baseball itself, more than anyone else ever connected with the game. Not just the best player, which he was. …

Finished reading: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers 📚

Johnson City's Blue Plum Festival: Had a great time celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Blue Plum festival last night. Great food and music, lots of fun stuff for the kids, cool stuff from local artisans, and friendly people. The festival has changed quite a bit over the years since I first moved here more than 20 years ago, but …

China Miéville wrote a book with Keanu Reeves: Excited about this collaboration between Keanu Reeves and–of all people–China Miéville as covered in Wired. The books sounds great (though I refrained from reading anything past the spoiler warning), but I was most interested in the little glimpses into Miéville’s life and process. …

Finished reading: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar 📚

Finished reading: Bunny by Mona Awad 📚 Loved this book. Not at all surprised to learn that it’s been optioned for a film by Bad Robot. Super dark and creative and fun with a voice that really leapt out as being ready-made for film or TV. Lots of interesting things to say about friendship and …

📺 Finished the second season of From on MGM+ yesterday (until a couple weeks ago, when we signed up for a free trial to specifically watch this show, I had never heard of this service) and found it really interesting. Like Lost, but horror (Harold Perrineau, even!)

# 🎵 An hour-long Oasis playlist: After getting hooked on @adam ’s St. Vincent playlist and the rest of their “Finest Hour” series in which they “compile [their] favorite of an artist’s songs into a playlist not a minute longer than 1 hour in duration1,” I decided to take the format for a spin myself, starting with Oasis. Gtting …

Winging it: This is now my fifth post of WeblogPoMo across three different sites. Maybe I’ll try for four by the end–I’ve heard great things about Pika. There are things I like about each of the trio of micro.blog, weblog.lol, and scribbles.page. I guess it’s nice to have options. Maybe …

Star Wars Day Top 10 #WeblogPoMo2024: As a kid whose most formative years fell in the early 90s, I missed some of the Star Wars craze, and might have missed it altogether if not for my friend Geoff. He had a couple older brothers who I think had introduced him pretty early on and he was obsessed. I remember watching the original trilogy …

Lifelong Learning: I realized recently (or, maybe just remembered) that learning is one of my favorite things in the world. This week, it came up in a work context wherein I volunteered to cross train with another department despite being completely buried with my own work at the moment and having already committed to …

Reminiscence Therapy and 'Remembering Some Guys': Read this article at Defector the other day and came away completely blown away by the whole idea of “reminiscence therapy.” There’s light-centered therapy or music therapy [. . .] art therapy, which becomes ideal for some patients who might become more reluctant to talk as the disease …

An ode to a picnic table: One of the best purchases we’ve made since purchasing our house a few years ago is a cheap build-it-yourself picnic table kit from one of the big box hardware stores. We brought it home, put it together, and eventually painted it a really cool ocean blue color that we thought looked nice on our …

🤯 Saw one of these guys crawling around on the dining room table this morning. Had no idea such a creature existed. What a world.

🔗 Suicide Mission: What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane: A shocking look at the inner workings at Boeing from Maureen Tkacic at The American Prospect. Nine days after the stock reached its high of $440, a brand-new 737 MAX dove into the ground near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at nearly 800 miles per hour, killing 157 people on board, thanks to a shockingly …

Alone Time: As a kid, we lived out of town and there weren’t really other kids my age in safe walking distance. I had a little sister and we definitely played together a lot, but, like any brother and sister, we needed some time apart and had different interests. As a result, I learned to have a lot of …

Finished reading: _A Creature Wanting Form_ by Luke O'Neil 📚: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Bookshop Pretty creepy honestly how faithfully these stories reflect some of my own anxieties, particularly around the 2020 pandemic and other kind of contemporary tragedies. I suppose that’s probably true for a lot of folks around a certain age who grew up a certain way and live a …

Finished reading: Something in the Water by Luke O’Neil 📚

Finished reading: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 📚

Really enjoyed Wonka with the kids. 🍿📽️🎥

Good year for our cherry blossoms

Thanks, sign!

Finally watched Oppenheimer. Lived up to the hype! 🎥🍿🎬

Finished the Hulu series Death and Other Details tonight. Can’t say I thought it was good, but it was certainly a wild ride. Plus, Mandy Patinkin. 📺

Now Playing: Liam Gallagher & John Squire 🎵

The real action is in novelty 📚 💬: I can’t believe all these animals we have are real and we just take it for granted I said before drinking half of my glass. Growing up our parents tell us there’s no such thing as monsters so we’ll go to sleep but a bear is a monster and a moose is a monster and a bird is a monster …

Finished Reading [The Overstory](https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-overstory-richard-powers/17315941) by Richard Powers 📚: Loved the scope of this and its overall kind of aura. But, man, the back third really dragged ass. Satisfying conclusion and it’s the kind of book that has forever changed my brain in good ways. Really wish I could read The Secret Forest — but maybe The Hidden Life of Trees will suffice. It …

On feeling the divine in a work of art: Luke O’Neil has a way of putting his finger right on that thing about music or literature or whatever that’s so hard to pin down for so many of us. This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot as I’ve been back into reading so much more and have remembered again the way …

Wonderland Tea Party with the little princess. She was slightly intimidated by Alice and the Mad Hatter who were there to take photos; she was not intimidated by the dance floor. 💃💃💃

Finished reading: The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler 📚 And maybe something in every single person is broken, and we just keep moving forward as if it were all normal—all of it—like insects with their heads torn off who keep crawling toward a shadow to hide in. Until that thing that has already …

I’ve been on a music nostalgia kick lately. A few weeks ago, we were out with the kids and, for some reason, the phrase “American Girls” worked its way into the conversation and I, of course, immediately needed to listen to the song of that name by a band named …

Year in books, 2023 📚: Here are the books I finished reading this year. This was a very good book year for me. Probably the best in a decade or so in terms of both quantity and quality. Here are a few themes and highlights. I got back into reading physical books this year and realized that this is my preferred medium. …

Quotes of the Year, Sports Edition: From Defector’s Ray Ratto’s December 4th article “The 49ers Are Big Dom Now”: But in whomping the Eagles and briefly incapacitating quarterback Jalen Hurts in to [sic] process, they also invoked the wrath of the Eagles' security chief, Big Dom DiSandro, a a restaurant …

Finished reading: Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman 📚

Instead of (or in addition to) the referee expert to consult with for explanations during NFL games broadcasts, I’d like to see someone try a punting and kicking experts to explain what goes right or wrong. 🏈

Finished reading: Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff 📚

Finished reading: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler 📚 One of those books that I just want to climb inside of and live in (despite how unpleasant that would be in the kinds of books that I tend to feel this way about). Humanity is still afraid the minds we make to do our dirty work for us—our …

Popular plant.

Finished reading: Blockade Billy by Stephen King 📚

Finished reading: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚

Finished reading: Heat 2 by Michael Mann 📚

Finished reading: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 📚 Huge thanks to @zioibi for choosing this for the sipped ink summer reading club. I’d had it on the list for a while and this proves to be excellent motivation. It was my first time participating in what I understanding is a …

This video about iridescent hot water that kottke shared today is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long while. 🤯

The 5 Best Weezer Songs Ever: Today, in his Welcome to Hell World newsletter, Luke O’Neil posted an impressive roundup of “musicians and music writers and other friends” takes on the top five Weezer songs of all time. I was not asked to participate because a) I am not a musician, b) I am not a music writer, and …

Finished reading: Mooncalves: Strange Stories by John WM Thompson (editor) 📚

Finished reading: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson 📚. Truly loved this book.

Whole family’s been sick this week, so, instead of going out and making new memories I’m going to relive our camping trip from a few weeks ago. Happy place.

🎵 I’m beginning to think that the theme song for H2O: Just Add Water has taken up permanent residence in my head. This is my life now.

📺 Silo finale definitely did not disappoint. Going to be a long wait for season 2.

Lovely tent overnight at the Rocky Bluff Recreational Area and Spring Creek Nature Trail in the Pisgah National Forest.

Follow up to my earlier previous post, with a quote from Hamilton Nolan that I read for the first time literally minutes after posting the previous entry, and which perfectly sums up the general gist of what I was trying to get across. But when you think about it a little it becomes clear that the …

This fuckin' guy ⚾️: Yesterday, Commissioner Rob Manfred held a press conference following the MLB’s owners meetings. This has, of course, been covered pretty thoroughly by the usual baseball writers and I continue to grow more appalled every time I read a new iteration of that coverage. First, Keith Olbermann …

This fuckin' guy...: Yesterday, Commissioner Rob Manfred held a press conference following the MLB’s owners meetings. This has, of course, been covered pretty thoroughly by the usual baseball writers and I continue to grow more appalled every time I read a new iteration of that coverage. First, Keith Olbermann …

Captains or shipworms?: From Hamilton Nolan: But when you think about it a little it becomes clear that the people who fancy themselves as the captains of the ship are actually the wood-eating shipworms who are consuming the thing from inside until it sinks.

📚 Loved “The Stars Have Eaten the Costco Parking Lot” by Chelsea Sutton in the Mooncalves collection.

Finished reading: Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson 📚 This one felt like it took me about ten years to finish. Pretty good climax and some interesting science to it all, but it was definitely a slog. Was far more interested in one of the storylines (Laks) than the others and those chapters tended …

I have always loved the color combination of a clear sky and sunlit spring leaves.

🔗 Turns out, plants make a lot of noise when they're stressed: Justine Calma, for The Verge, summarizing research from Tel Aviv University: Tomato and tobacco plants in particular make clicking sounds when they’re dehydrated or being cut [. . .] Distress sounds were more prolonged for plants deprived of water. They made increasingly more noise in the …

🔗 The Lost Art of Being Stuck With An Album: Felix Kent, writing at Defector1: For either my 12th birthday or the Christmas before my aunt gave me a copy of R.E.M’s Green, which has an orange cover. She also gave me a copy of Belinda Carlisle’s Runaway Horses (Belinda looking sultry in black and white and a crochet sweater thing) …

Finished reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚 Really enjoyed this. Could see a TV series or a series of short stories or more novellas set in this world. First I’ve read through a full novel by Emily St. John Mandel (though I started and abandoned Station Eleven, and then …

The Garden-Spade Technique 🔗: I’m a little ashamed to admit how hard I laughed reading this admittedly silly piece by the always great Albert Burneko at the always great (and, to quote the piece, “incredibly deranged”) Defector about the recent Daily Beast story about the eating habits of Ron DeSantis. The …

Finished reading: Lark Ascending by Silas House 📚

⚾️ I cannot stop laughing at this. Protect this man! He’s a national treasure. Spring Training Speech Turns Terry Francona Into Mr. Bean - Defector

📺 Through 2 episodes, I absolutely adore Shrinking.

Finished reading: This Census-taker by China Miéville 📚 Read this for Defector Reads A Book’s February discussion. First book of fiction that I’ve read in physical form (not audio book) in a long, long time so it feels like something of an accomplishment. I absolutely loved this book. First I’ve …

The Resort | 9/10 | Peacock Truly enjoyed this. Hit a very specific soft spot for me reminiscent of some other things I’ve loved even if they weren’t perfect (like Jeff Who Lives at Home, Donnie Darko, probably some others that I can’t think of now.)

“A dillion is ten thousand and twenty-two.” –My five year old’s new favorite number.

My Favorite TV Shows of 2022: Andor, Disney+ Severance, Apple TV+ Station Eleven, HBO Max Only Murders in the Building, Hulu House of the Dragon, HBO Max The Bear, Hulu Barry, HBO Max For All Mankind, Apple TV+ 1899, Netflix The White Lotus, HBO Max I added the streaming services where I accessed each both as a reminder and …

I know this is like, a well recognized thing, but I’ve been mainlining the Mission: Impossible movies over the last week or so and nobody sells a dead sprint quite like Tom Cruise. 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

Just giggled to myself about some particularly whimsical bit of animation in the new Readwise Reader, which is now open as a public beta. Have grown to depend on Readwise for syncing highlights of just about everything I’m reading these days, and, so far at least, Reader is very impressive.

Introduce yourself with 5 TV shows: The Leftovers Halt and Catch Fire Battlestar Galactica Bob’s Burgers Magnum, P.I. (80s version) …via Jarrod Blundy

Indeed.

Finished reading: Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte 📚

Love this! John Margolies’s photographs of roadside America via Public Domain Review

Finished reading: Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari 📚

Finished reading: The Gunslinger (Revised Edition): The Dark Tower I by Stephen King 📚

Finished reading: Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny 📚 Turned onto this by a Vox article the other day and it did not disappoint. Looking forward to more in the series.

Finished reading: Dead Astronauts: A Novel (Borne) by Jeff VanderMeer 📚

Finished reading: Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚 Felt like a little bit of a slog through some of the (long) middle section, but the end was poignant, fitting. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Coming into the season, expectations were about as low as I can remember (and that’s really saying something with this team). Maybe because of that, these first few weeks have been a pleasant surprise. Let’s go Bucs. ⚾️🏴‍☠️

🍿Watched Raya and the Last Dragon last night as a treat for the boy. Fun! Balked initially at the price of premiere plus access, but happy for the novel experience.

The saddest pumpkin patch.

Behold: Punkin Marie (right) and Punkin Marie 2.

💡: Letterheads: social media and the end of discourse by Sarah Jeong

Day 8: contrast.

“I shit in a bag,” he reveals, with a hint of pride. “Because I had to go! And there was nowhere to go. And I’m convinced the gods of rock said, ‘That kid’s a true believer. We’ve got to put the thumb on the scale for the old Weeze.' “ Brian Hiatt at Rolling Stone: “The Strange Birth and Near …

The things we do for Rock 'n Roll...: “I shit in a bag,” he reveals, with a hint of pride. “Because I had to go! And there was nowhere to go. And I’m convinced the gods of rock said, ‘That kid’s a true believer. We’ve got to put the thumb on the scale for the old Weeze.' “ Brian Hiatt at Rolling Stone: “The Strange Birth and Near …

This is absolutely wild 🦀🦀🦀: Rachel Hartigan Shea at National Geographic: “Colossal crabs may hold clue to Amelia Earhart fate”

Really loved this article. Molly Priddy for Vice: “How Getting Sober Finally Made Me Cool”

For the @macgenie photo challenge (I’m starting late). Day 1: patience is hard when it comes to blueberries.

Yahoo News, Jana Winter: Exclusive: FBI document warns conspiracy theories are a new domestic terrorism threat

Futurism, Dan Robitzski: The Pentagon Is Launching Mass Surveillance Balloons Over America 😳

📚: The MVP Machine by Ben Lindbergh & Travis Sawchik

“Blaming Workers Again” by John Russo and Sherry Linkon — Working Class Perspectives: 💡 Super interesting read that articulated a few points that have been on my mind recently. The notion that smaller rust belt communities like the Youngstown-Warren area haven’t tried to diversify their economies reflects basic ignorance. Mayors, economic developers, and business leaders in these …

Blaming Workers Again" by John Russo and Sherry Linkon (Working Class Perspectives: 💡 Super interesting read that articulated a few points that have been on my mind recently. The notion that smaller rust belt communities like the Youngstown-Warren area haven’t tried to diversify their economies reflects basic ignorance. Mayors, economic developers, and business leaders in these …

💿: Mettavolution by Rodrigo y Gabriela

🎧: “Just Like Overnight” by Todd Snider

Appalachia Can’t Breathe - Progressive.org: Sick. . . . radiologists in Kentucky are no longer allowed to diagnose black lung for the purposes of a benefit claim, meaning that physicians . . . must defer to certified pulmonologists. As of last year, there were only six physicians in the state that can diagnose black lung and at least four of …

Appalachia Can't Breathe" -- Progressive.or: Sick. . . . radiologists in Kentucky are no longer allowed to diagnose black lung for the purposes of a benefit claim, meaning that physicians . . . must defer to certified pulmonologists. As of last year, there were only six physicians in the state that can diagnose black lung and at least four of …

🏀 : I haven’t watched the tournament (or really any basketball) in years, but I am absolutely loving it so far this year. Didn’t know what I was missing!

Yeeeeeeep.

Weird baseball quotes, pt. 1: Baseball players (pitchers especially) are weird. Strangest quote of Spring Training (so far) easily goes to Cleveland Indians' pitcher Mike Clevinger. In a story at The Athletic, about an argument among the Indians' pitching staff about who is the best athlete, he somehow gets to this point: …

⚾️ Getting kinda dusty in here… Did you hear this one about new Rays pitcher Charlie Morton …

📚: Impossible Owls by Brian Phillips If you’ve ever been seventeen, and especially if you’ve ever been seventeen in a small town, you’ve had your own year of dark nights. But when your are seventeen, and especially when you are seventeen in a small town, you believe there is opening before you a …

You and your friends are conspirators in a shadow country: If you’ve ever been seventeen, and especially if you’ve ever been seventeen in a small town, you’ve had your own year of dark nights. But when your are seventeen, and especially when you are seventeen in a small town, you believe there is opening before you a mysterious and uncharted realm that …

This guy.

🔗 Highline: "Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong": Really enlightening article at Highline. And, in a cruel twist, one effect of weight bias is that it actually makes you eat more. The stress hormone cortisol—the one evolution designed to kick in when you’re being chased by a tiger or, it turns out, rejected for your looks—increases appetite, …

🎧: “My Sweet Midwest” by Fruit Bats

💡: Jason Kottke: In Praise of Public Libraries

💿: Royal Blood by Royal Blood

Saturday vibes.

💡: Community colleges arise as the new tech incubators thanks to nuts tuition costs by Wes Schlagenhauf at The Hustle. Wave of the future, Dude.

💡: The Real Reason You Use Closed Captions for Everything Now by Jason Kehe

💡: Anthony Bourdain Was the Most Interesting Man in the World by Drew Magary

📚: Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

🎙: Caliphate Certainly not for the faint of heart, but… wow.

📚: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Sparked by the Westworld tie-in. Curious to see how it ties together.

💡: What’s Going On In Your Child’s Brain When You Read Them A Story? by Anya Kamenetz

Throwback 💿: Rock and Roll Part Three by Ozma

New Study Shows That Students Are Helped by Making College Better, Not Cheaper Helping students succeed also involves a different intuition, however, one that every student unable to take required courses because of waiting lists or limited sections understands: Finishing college is less likely if …

Now 🎧: “Tupelo” by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit.

Defining Student Success: New Study Shows That Students Are Helped by Making College Better, Not Cheaper Helping students succeed also involves a different intuition, however, one that every student unable to take required courses because of waiting lists or limited sections understands: Finishing college is less likely if …

Now 📖: Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

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Whoa: Aeon: The weird wonders of combining 3D printing with the maths of pinecones and sunflowers: Using rotating, 3D-printed sculptures that he displays under a strobe light, the US designer John Edmark [. . .] creates dynamic 'blooms' that look like sophisticated computer-animation exercises come to …

Now 🎧: Where There’s Smoke: “Go Let It Out (Expression)

Took the words right out of my mouth: Vlad Savov at The Verge perfectly summed up something I’ve been feeling for a long time, but have struggled to put into words. Whatever it is, I’ve been gripped by a fever of indecision caused by comparing Apples iPhone X and Google’s Pixel 2 XL side by side. Yep. Later, he gets into what I think …

Vlad Savov at The Verge perfectly summed up something I’ve been feeling for a long time, but have struggled to put into words. Whatever it is, I’ve been gripped by a fever of indecision caused by comparing Apples iPhone X and Google’s Pixel 2 XL side by side. Yep. Later, he gets into what I think …

🔗 Took the words right outta my mouth: Vlad Savov at The Verge perfectly summed up something I’ve been feeling for a long time, but have struggled to put into words. Whatever it is, I’ve been gripped by a fever of indecision caused by comparing Apples iPhone X and Google’s Pixel 2 XL side by side. Yep. Later, he gets into what I think …

📚 recommendation: The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer. So weird and so good. Looking forward to seeing the film version of Annihilation.

📚 recommendation: The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer. So weird and so good. Looking forward to seeing the film version of Annihilation.

Fall, finally.

Fall, finally.

Dude. (Photo cred: @bmseybert)

Dude. (Photo cred: @bmseybert)

How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down: From The New York Times Magazine… WARNING: sensitive material. For the TL;DR crowd, there’s a podcast version.    

From The New York Times Magazine… WARNING: sensitive material. For the TL;DR crowd, there’s a podcast version.    

“Blue Steel”

Happy camper.

Carrie Coon and Midwestern Soul: I knew there was something in particular that stood out about Carrie Coon, and this Joanna Robinson story in Vanity Fair finally helped me pin it down. When Lindelof and The Leftovers novelist Tom Perrotta first auditioned Coon in 2012, she had just a few tiny TV credits to go along with her body of …

Excited about season 2. Revisionist History: A Good Walk Spoiled overcast.fm/+Gsa1tjt9… #nowplaying

Future Seybert is already accumulating some sweet stuff. Thanks @kaylajsims!

bmseybert carves a mean jack-o-lantern.

THE STRUTS

Happy Friday.

I stood beneath an orange sky

Pineapple fajita 😁

Love this pup.

Shit just got real.

Trying this ish out… Landscape.

Brought to you by the CCC.

Capital N Nature.

The eyes have it.

Park deer

This is why we can’t have nice things.

bold flavors

flamboyant feller.

Studious. #catstergram

Studious. #catstergram

It pays to have a handy man for a father. #litswag?

It pays to have a handy man for a father. #litswag?

Starbuck’s big adventure. #catsergram.

Starbuck’s big adventure. #catsergram.

Word.

Word.

Such a beauty. #catstergram

Such a beauty. #catstergram

Birds, brah.

Birds, brah.

Weddin' day complete. Flawless victory.

Weddin' day complete. Flawless victory.

Murried.

Murried.

‘Marnin’ 2

‘Marnin’ 2

‘Marnin’.

Pt. 2

Letter from Stephen Fry to a fan (named Crystal, obvs.) Pt. 1

Not fake, though it looks it.

Quite find of this lady.

Best picture ever.

pt. 2

Backyard relaxing pt. 1

Pretty nice package a-waitin' at my door today.

Double trouble.

Morning moon over TSU.

Regal.

Pretty serious score at Variety Record Lounge in Columbia.

I grow old. Thanks, @_brittmichelle for the new wall hanging.

Starbuck and Christmas tree.

Well this is a surprise.

Something seems missing from this (and these) student conference(s)… Oh. Student(s).