Vollmann? What? npr.org/blogs/thetwo-w… – 03:38 PM GMT
@jebbanner Did you catch this on air tonight? npr.org/blogs/therecor… – 09:56 PM GMT

RT: @IAMLILBUB: BUB is mesmerized by the musings of her Earth colleague, @HenriLeChatNoir henrilechatnoir.com/book/ pic.twitter.com/k0HN2WMT1F – 06:34 PM GMT

@LeavittAlone yes and – 07:10 AM GMT
couldn’t finish autoimmune disorder thing in new yorker. our culture cannot communicate on a basis of facts. the article is a case in point. – 07:31 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm isn’t that an obvious payola / spam crossover? that’s launch spam 101 on Amazon, eBay, and books by Newt Gingrich. no joke. – 11:41 PM GMT
@poupou I’ll be one! – 11:44 PM GMT
@hell0jed enh, Surface Pro looks like the way to go for now. local CL full of new 128/256 at 700-900, give or take. ships with wacom. – 11:49 PM GMT
@ardaniel @hell0jed good call. @FRENDEN, looking over those MS brush demo RTs, I do not see a chisel point steel nib. L’il help? – 11:58 PM GMT

@phirephoenix “parody”? Have you seen the news lately? 😉 – 05:27 PM GMT

@sara_clarke spot, obvs – 12:41 AM GMT
@zipties here it is in context: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Dre… // my faves so far are “Argall” and “Fathers and Crows.” – 06:30 PM GMT
@zipties … and me in 2003 on the topic, twice: mike.whybark.com/archives/00064… // mike.whybark.com/archives/00077… – 06:32 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt here’s that recent beeb shakespeare set I mentioned last night with Hiddleston in it: imdb.com/title/tt226245… – 07:01 PM GMT
finally dropped the digital needle on that 3 vol Bix collection I dug up the other day and OH HELL YES – 09:42 PM GMT
porch pooch pic.twitter.com/horlU9sAh6 – 10:41 PM GMT
damn what I would give for a good steel nib emulator – 10:43 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough oh, they never give the drugs to types wot ask direct, please poppa – 10:44 PM GMT
so a few weeks back when my folks were here they brought back this awesome thin-sliced alpine air-cured specialty beef – 10:47 PM GMT
I knew it as ‘bunderfliesch’ and ‘viande sechée’ in, respectively, Schweizer Deutsch and Suisse Français as a kid. – 10:49 PM GMT
The Googles tells me it is also known as ‘viande de Grisons,’ Grisons being an alpine canton in Switzerland. – 10:51 PM GMT
Anyway, this stuff is made by “Matterhorn Meats and Sausages” in Yakima, Washington. google.com/search?q=the+m… – 10:53 PM GMT
They’ve been around so long they don’t even have a hint of self-maintained internet presence. My understanding is the meat guy is Swiss. – 10:54 PM GMT
I know, with a name like that, who’d a thunk it? – 10:54 PM GMT
ANYWAY, viande sechée is air dried beef with some minimal chemistry added, not dissimilar to prosciutto, but for the saltiness and pork base – 10:56 PM GMT
So after we got this excellent gift, I was sharing it after dinner with some pals we’d hosted, and I called it “meat candy,” because it is. – 10:58 PM GMT
My guest then observed it was similar to fruit leather, whereupon the treat was immediately redubbed “meat leather.” – 10:58 PM GMT
And with that, I aim to eat me some as I set out here on the deck with the dog. – 10:59 PM GMT

WOW I randomly hijacked a person’s enthusiasm for The Ice Shirt by William Vollmann at a party tonite, for which I feel ashamed. – 07:41 AM GMT
My enthusiasm for the whole set of stuff that dude’s written was unfairly loud and brash next to The Ice Shirt reader’s newfound interest. – 07:43 AM GMT
I was so excited to hear someone else enthuse about Vollmann that I couldn’t listen. My shame is rationally founded. I shall apologize. – 07:44 AM GMT

Ma-kun up for the NBP pitching win streak record tonight! By gum, I may stay up for it! – 02:04 AM GMT
RT: @surlygourmand: Time for some rye whiskey you fucking people. – 02:14 AM GMT
hm, pizza and Porco Rosso sounds delightful – 02:27 AM GMT
I feel like Dave Bowman. pic.twitter.com/NB5XtJPadr – 03:02 AM GMT
(Off-camera: 5th season TNG episode, dog, house, city, biome) – 03:04 AM GMT
oh, jesus, it’s the Picard-in-the-elevator-with-kids episode. – 03:20 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt it’s the 9-11 episode of TNG – 04:07 AM GMT
@GlennF don’t have a heart attack man – 05:29 AM GMT
Things we all think: 1. Avoid any interaction with law enforcement – 06:36 AM GMT
2. Avoid any interaction with the health care system; it’s better to die – 06:37 AM GMT
3. Never use the internet or cell phones – 06:37 AM GMT
4. Only go to college is someone else pays – 06:38 AM GMT
Seems like the country has a bright future! – 06:38 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm hell yes. Deniese Self turned me on to that when I worked for her. mind blowing record. – 03:29 PM GMT

@GlennF @nytimes well, except for today – 02:40 AM GMT
@GlennF passive house, passive-aggressive weather. geez. – 02:43 AM GMT
@GlennF likewise bunky. keep healin’! – 02:44 AM GMT
Facebook is terrible because it shows me random snippets of acquaintance’s lives that I find boring, and then … – 02:57 AM GMT
… does the same for snippets from the lives long lost acquaintances with very different lives. – 02:58 AM GMT
Just now, a high school skater punk buddy who was in the states from Venezuela during his parents grad school popped up. – 02:59 AM GMT
He settled on being a Venezuelan federal cop after his military service. So he’s a socialist SWAT dude who lived in the US as a teenager. – 03:01 AM GMT
That is mind-blowing and so, so interesting. The FB thing that popped up? Him playing dominos with his sweet as pie granddaughters. – 03:02 AM GMT
What a badass. – 03:02 AM GMT
@phirephoenix ha ha no, when he popped up the first time I was all “DOOOOOD LOL DOOOOD” and likewise. – 03:05 AM GMT
@phirephoenix We were only pals for a couple years but I lived in Latin American countries on and off as a kid so it was awesome … – 03:05 AM GMT
@phirephoenix … that he was in our, what, posse or whatever. – 03:06 AM GMT
@phirephoenix he was into military stuff even then so his life is more about his affinities than politics. – 03:07 AM GMT
@phirephoenix … which has actually meant I can ask him about cop stuff when I need to w/r/t my family, er, in-laws. – 03:08 AM GMT
@phirephoenix He was a good dude when he was seventeen. I firmly believe he remains so. – 03:09 AM GMT
@phirephoenix oh, just like what his SWAT training is like versus what he knows about US training, how politics affects info exchange – 03:11 AM GMT
@phirephoenix but like limited by language to an extent and medium, so short questions and answers – 03:12 AM GMT
@phirephoenix AFAI can tell, US SWAT units get access to a whole lot more toys, and are less centralized. But I’m talking out of school here – 03:13 AM GMT
@phirephoenix anyway. thank you FB, for the gems amidst your annoyances. – 03:15 AM GMT
RT: @kcfennessy: Today’s warm bath of Seattle weather reminds me of summers spent in Hartford, CT in the ’70s. That is not a compliment. – 03:21 AM GMT
@kcfennessy on the other hand, look at Twain’s output there in the summer. No, don’t, it’s just depressing. – 03:22 AM GMT
@LeVostreGC ooh, by my ould gaffer – 04:28 AM GMT
Dog knew when she was near, went to the door about ten minutes before she arrived. – 04:43 AM GMT
Miyakazki’s “The Wind Rises,” about the designer of the Zero. YES. io9.com/hayao-miyazaki… – 04:50 AM GMT
@DanEngler “The Berkshire Room in Chicago offers a cocktail involving bourbon, coffee, and macerated pipe tobacco.” dear lord. no. – 05:16 AM GMT
@manwhoyells @DanEngler ugh, only to persons innocent of macerated anything tobacco – 05:28 AM GMT
@manwhoyells @DanEngler and by the grey hairs on my chinny chin chin I’m confident I have more experiences of that than ye bowf of yez – 05:30 AM GMT
@manwhoyells @DanEngler mmm, bottled chaw juice for vapin’: thevaporpro.com/usa-virginia-t… – 05:32 AM GMT
That said, on general principles I am in favor of introducing horrifying, taboo substances as a cocktail ingrediment. Swamp silt. – 05:34 AM GMT
Reduction of seaweed. Salmon milt. Clam juice. Coca-Cola. Sea urchin oil. And so on. But, hunh, chaw tea? No. – 05:36 AM GMT
@LeVostreGC I will make a pilgrimage to Caunterbuyre and place an arret upon these crimens of langue! It will take but ten or twelve more! – 05:38 AM GMT
@DanEngler @manwhoyells naw, that’s sugar and milk with some leaves innit – 05:39 AM GMT
@christy_ms well, I’ll try to keep you apprised of SEA screenings. I’d be VERY surprised if there wasn’t an MoF event for it. Taggin’ on FB – 05:45 AM GMT
@DanEngler @manwhoyells don’t you talk smack about my (carda) mom! – 05:48 AM GMT
@sculpin IT IS CTHULU – 06:54 AM GMT
counterpoint to Miyazaki from Ask A Korean: askakorean.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-go… mwhybark.newsblur.com/story/the-good… – 08:02 AM GMT
@sculpin vimeo.com/9880377 “They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.” – 08:05 AM GMT
@esinclai I have not! – 02:51 PM GMT
@GlennF I woke up chuckling about the correction to the passive house article – seems the story originally named the owners as the Richies. – 02:52 PM GMT
@hell0jed wow. GH is a hard slog up to Seattle proper, but that is a sweet spot. – 03:21 PM GMT

No updates for this day.

attn @jebbanner mwhybark.newsblur.com/story/hoarder-… – 01:28 AM GMT
@jebbanner @SmallBox well, first, the poor muthafucka. That is sad as hell. – 01:49 AM GMT
@jebbanner @SmallBox second, looking at the exposed faces we can see: a lot of shovelware or whatever you call undistinguished MCM sides – 01:50 AM GMT
@jebbanner @SmallBox third; given the pix, it should be possible to doublecheck the rough count. Anyone could then plug in a gem % estimate. – 01:51 AM GMT
@jebbanner … so even if you take a 1% ratio and accept the count at no-hype, that’s 2,500 rarities. And honestly, I would guess it higher. – 01:54 AM GMT
@jebbanner nobody gets that tipped over, I think, without a base of knowledge. So I bet there are more than 2,500 worthwhile sides there. – 01:55 AM GMT
@jebbanner right, I would guess they are deliberately holding some specific pix. – 01:56 AM GMT
@jebbanner that reminds me, did you see this? reddit.com/r/pics/comment… (1/2) – 01:58 AM GMT
@jebbanner pix m.imgur.com/a/ock1Q // Thousands of NIB shoes dating to 1940s-early 1960s. Thousands of pairs. – 01:59 AM GMT
@jebbanner hm, fair enough. Hard for me to make a call on resale, for sure. but that is someone who did nothing for years but buy sides. – 02:01 AM GMT
@jebbanner I bet! – 02:01 AM GMT
@jebbanner @johnpstrohm it really is, isn’t it? I would guess every pair in the box has a long-term value of $100 or more, sold right. – 02:02 AM GMT
@jebbanner interesting, might have picked and sold to fund and then replowed. that makes sense, in a sad and OCD way. – 02:03 AM GMT
@jebbanner I have a buddy that picked as an indie Amazon reseller on DVDs and Laserdiscs(!). He says that’s all done now, makes sense. – 02:07 AM GMT
@matthewbaldwin have you tried the thunderdome lately? sure, the odds of getting out are 50/50 and all but – 02:14 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt ///!i%…@whybark.com – 04:52 PM GMT
highly disappointed in the lack of ‘series of tubes’ jokes in the wake of hyperloop revelation – 06:16 PM GMT