April 15, 2020
He really hates these replicants!
I spent twenty minutes watching this bonkers metatextual reinterpretation of Blade Runner, "The Lost Cut" so now you have to too.
"Ten Things I’m Going to Make When This Is Over"
Four years after writing "So Much Cooking" (previously), a sci-fi short story in the form of a recipe blog updated during a fictional pandemic, Naomi Kritzer reflects on its eerie similarity to the real one. [more inside]
“[They] sound almost… like a colloquial anatomical vulgarity”
Ada Powers: I get it: you’re on lockdown. You're trying to do a lot with a little. It's hard to find joy in the midst of fear, depression, and austerity. That's why it's time to learn about totwaffles. (thread)
The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder
"It is the most common form of dementia. Still, as a man in his thirties, Lee was unusually young to be afflicted." Lee Holloway cofounded Cloudflare but is now almost completely lost to frontotemporal dementia. Single-link Wired feature by Sandra Upson.
There's no party like a ... eh... Garden Party...
Garden Party, a lush animated short.
Featuring the bullfrogs & other creatures from Maestro.
Illogic & Bloom Pictures: last year on MF
The gulf between the anxiety of the world and the anxiety of the self…
Sequestered with my family, surrounded by disease, embedded, clearly and undeniably, in History—in the shared consequences of politics, pathology, and plain old fate—I wish to see and feel my anxiety not as my own, not at all as my own, but as ours. The city’s. The country’s. The world’s. The time’s. One unmistakable sign that I want this is that now when I write about my own anxiety, I do feel shame. I feel shame like a warning, like a threat: I, I, I, I, I, I: the eternal song of anxiety. (n+1) [more inside]
The Grief of Isis
A beautifully-illustrated contemporary retelling of the myth of Osiris. by European musician, artist, and fakir Makmed the Miller, who states that they specialize in the bed of nails. This secondary link contains several embedded musical performances. Makmed the Miller on Soundcloud.
More of making the most from a limited food supply
No flour, eggs or butter? No problem! 23 cake recipes for when you're missing an ingredient (The Guardian). See also: The Food Expiration Dates You Should Actually Follow from the New York Times, who also has a virtual cookbook of recipes and tips for quarantine cooking. One final tip: if your supplies of bubbly drinks are limited, perhaps don't experiment with bottle sabring or chopping, as seen in this episode of Quarantine Quitchen with the Browns (no injuries, lots of laughing).
A Four-Colour Psychochronography
The Last War In Albion is a blog/book/epic by Elizabeth Sandifer that chronicles ... well. I'll just: This Is Not A Dream
The Last War in Albion is a history of British comics. More specifically, it is a history of the magical war between Grant Morrison and Alan Moore, a war that is on the one hand entirely of its own invention and on the other a war fought in the realm of the fictional, rendering its actual existence almost but not entirely irrelevant. The war in question is not the scant material residue of their verbal feud in various interviews over the years. This exists and will be picked over, but it is not the meat of the discussion. Rather it is a more fundamental issue: how is it that two comics writers of nearly the same generation, with such a clear overlap in interests, who grew up a mere three-hundred-and-forty miles apart - no greater than the distance from New York to DC - a mere seven years in age difference (no larger than the age difference between J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis) are not friends and have not a hint of warmth in their relationship? This is almost as improbable as Morrissey and Robert Smith hating each other’s guts.[more inside]
women are presented as gateways, or opportunities for transformation
A Feminist Critique of Murkami Novels, with Murakami Himself: Mieko Kawakami interviews Haruki Murakami. Kawakami asks Murakami why his female characters play the roles they do, and behave like they do, and Murakami responds.
"I knew these lines backwards last night!"
"That's the way you're sayin' them now." The Warner Bros annual blooper reels, 1935 to 1949. SLYoutube playlist.
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