what are you into right now?

17-century princesses (??)

tracer what was this about, how did it pan out

lol i read "daughters of the winter queen" by nancy goldstone which is about the offspring of elizabeth stuart. she in turn was king james vi/i's daughter - the one guy fawkes et al planned to install on the throne after disposing of james. anyway it's really good! lots of characters. one of the daughters becomes penpals with descartes. there is a lot of anxiety about "good matches" as the family fortunes become uncertain etc. you know how it is - accept the crown of bohemia, get run out of town by an armed battalion. i want to read more about rupert - he's the baby they almost got left on the floor when frederick and elizabeth stuart were fleeing prague in a hurry. he ended up fighting for charles i in the civil war and had a massive white dog named Boye that went with him everywhere, even into battle. for awhile he became a pirate of a sort.

Jakemans cough sweets probably too much. LIke the aniseed original and the cherry menthol m most I think or maybe just get through more of them. Local place has special price on them.
Trying to get some shirts finished before going away. Will probably spend a lot more time doing shirts next year. Since I didn't get several done this year. So will at least have a few to start teh year with. Partially cut cos i keep getting busy doing other stuff when i start them. Did jeans and jeans jackets this year when I did anything.
Charles Webb's The graduate.
MSNBC night news shows.
the Sopiderverse.
lots of psych rock.
Waxed cotton
Mueeler She Wrote,
Why Is this Happenning
& several other Podcasts I've been listening to for the last few weeks.

extra-neighborhood travels
espresso from little cups
heating corn tortillas in my saucepan because it is the same size as them
acid squelches
kanban
walking farther
hopeful pedagogy
listening-journaling
playing ecm records and imagining being in the nordic lands
looking for thai peppers (my supermarket stopped carrying them)

i found the peppers!

now my list is ruined

poached eggs
green tea
not smoking weed every night
“transcendental style” films
twitter dms
R
to-do lists

oh also keeping a diary. it’s more of a phd diary than a personal life one but still great

transcendental style films, i gotta get into that

weirdness

sangak bread

pogs

my terrible secret is that i've never played pogs

taking black lab puppy for his first short walks
seasoning my new carbon steel wok
spinach omelette
Edgerton's Rise and Fall of the British Nation
Robert Scott Thompson

Making ice ginger/lemon tea
chocolate with honeycomb

Ayumi Hamasaki
Film version of Helter Skelter
Camomile tea
Blogging again (wtf)
All the red lip balms I can buy
The Coup
James Connolly

Houjicha
Not drinking coffee
Into the Breach

xxxp Karl--this is everyone's terrible secret; nobody *ever* actually played Pogs, they just bought the fuckers en masse and filled up those plastic tubes.

hot tea, any kind green black herbal, i started drinking it again and with the exception of coffee in the morning which i need and love i think it is almost always better than coffee
japanese traditional music, koto, kabuki, percussion
egg drop soup, a really good one is one of the most nourishing things to eat in the winter
getting outside whatever the weather is
stopping by the lake erie shore on my way to work, the great lakes are amazing
painting daily! i never thought i would have a daily creative practice but for months now i've maintained one. i make a couple small watercolor works on paper next to my SAD lamp in the morning, 5am on weekdays is the best time. whatever happens throughout the day i like knowing that i created art in the morning
instagram? parts of it i hate but as an easy-to-maintain log of my art and photos i take of time spent outside and with my kids it reminds me that i have good things happening in my life
my colleagues at work. 2018 was a rough fucking year for me at work but i put in a lot of effort to connect with people here and it is really paying off now
applying for professional things - editorial board memberships in journals in my field, travel scholarships, learning opportunities. i don't always get them, i had a lot of rejections last year, but a few that i was selected for i am really excited about
acknowledging that smoking weed in the morning is sometimes fun but not always, i don't need to do it every day
andy goldsworthy, richard serra, eric carle
arnold lobel's frog and toad
aquatic animals, i took my older son to the aquarium the other day and they are just stunning
not having twitter on my phone
not engaging in moralisms or dumb judgements, acknowledging complexity in other people
spinoza, that book the courtier and the heretic about him & leibniz is so good
some zen readings i've had on my shelf for a long time since college, in particular chinul's korean way of zen
nts radio, what a gift! i truly enjoy not knowing what i am listening to, abandoning the collector's impulse to acquire & obtain knowledge, instead immersion & availability & acknowledgement & openness
hippie bullshit, most kinds

Animal Crossing
Wodehouse
Antarctica
Julia Holter
Mostly I'm just tired

Painting daily is something I should do too.

andy goldsworthy, richard serra, eric carle

A+++

<3

nonfiction audiobooks

arranging new wave and post-punk music for bluegrass instrumentation

lighting a fire in the fireplace

drinking cheap bourbon

wearing ties

feeding wild birds

watching my son learn to talk

watching my daughter get into musical theater

watching my son learn to talk

aw knowing what you’ve posted in the past that is so awesome ymp

Thanks, marcos! He's gone from pretyy much only saying "mama" to yes, no, hi, home, up, off, dada, purple, and eat. Granted, it's taken seven years. But progress is progress. Hope your own parenting journey is also progressing.

lot of good things people are into recently imo

many xposts

It’s true, I don’t really remember personally witnessing anyone playing pogs...

waking up in the middle of the night and writing reviews for 16 2/3 rpm jazz records, apparently

Trying to work out how to create different collar styles in both shirts and jackets.
Also working up the menu from random hot asian fusion thingy with various meats to something wider and more varied.
The Favourite quite fun with non-sympathetic characters which can't be that easy to do. I thought the big point was to try to create a level of sympathy with even thoroughly nasty individuals otherwise you just wouldn't care what happened with them. GUess you get some of that since you do seem to care what happens with these very self-centred characters.

Getting down to actually making a bunch of new stuff.

New 10.5 tog duvet.
Watching talks on aquatic litter and other stuff.

Replacing things that haven't worked for a while like my daily haversack/bag thing. Now got a mil-tec thing which is at least intact. May wind up making myself something some time later this year since i got a pattern for various bags last year.

Cotton velvet though would like a few more colours.

richard strauss salome
kind of blue (again)
flossing(????)
the phantasm movies

flossing is kind of a pain in the ass but it is so much better than not flossing

I'm into flossing now too! for the first time in a long time.

watch out for that Glide floss, they say it's poison

watch out for that Glide floss, they say it's poison

― Dan I.

who says that?

yea i just heard that, it's the best floss too

It's all over the news for the last couple of days; it's got teflon in it basically i guess? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/09/oral-b-glide-floss-toxic-pfas-chemicals-study/2530661002/

Shit, that's the floss I use.

The Reach/Listerine woven floss is amazing. I buy it three at a time because sometimes I can't find it. If your teeth are very tight together it might not be good for you though.

Why can't any of these articles give us a list of the non-cancer flosses?

everything gives you cancer, is the thing

it's not worth worrying about what will or won't give you cancer for anything less oncogenic than smoking, asbestos, and recreational exposure to X-rays

and like the sun

and BRCA mutations.

I've already breathed in enough asbestos fibres to kill me ten times thanks to a faked removal report on a school I worked on 10 years ago. That's why I don't worry about what gives you cancer!

I still worry about that thermometer I broke when I was 5 and swiped at all the mercury with my hand.

I rang up an Asbestos helpline and they told me I might be ok and some ppl work with it for years without developing mesothelioma. And then I read that Malcolm McClaren obit where it was purported that one dose of it when he was renovating his Kings Rd shop in the 70's was probably what killed him.

but I've got to say asbestos is something I'm really into to rn. I'm going on a tour of African asbestos mines this summer, love to have snowball fights with the stuff and not forgetting old asbestos pipe lagging make ideal winter arm-warmers. Might see if I can weave some into dental floss, that'd be sick.

I've heard of those tours. There are two companies that do them: You Bet Your Asbestos, and Asbestivus For the Restofus.

I once went on a site where an asbestos awareness course was mandatory and whilst they were showing all the different bad types to avoid (which most already been exposed to) and which ones you can chill and say it'll be reet cause they're only marginally carcinogenic, one of the group was saying how he'd probably smashed close to a thousand asbestos panels whilst doing bathroom demos as an apprentice in the 80's and some idiot quips: lend us your lungs, mate.

Pure bantz really, but it made laugh a lot at the time I'm ashamed to say.

Planning an itinerary for a visit to Japan in a few months time.

Graphic novels - there's something about the format I really love above all other art forms.

Instagram - I really love updates from the fashion/art people I follow.

Walking in London - I really love walking in London, and in fact have considered publishing something online about the ecstatic spots i have discovered.

Cute skinny guys - i seem to have repressed my gayness for the last decade or so, and it's come back with a vengeance.

Planning an itinerary for a visit to Japan in a few months time.

Graphic novels - there's something about the format I really love above all other art forms.

Instagram - I really love updates from the fashion/art people I follow.

Walking in London - I really love walking in London, and in fact have considered publishing something online about the ecstatic spots i have discovered.

Cute skinny guys - i seem to have repressed my gayness for the last decade or so, and it's come back with a vengeance.

oops - sorry