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There is a theme among my Xmas cards. pic.twitter.com/​hmA0mXEieJ – 12:52 AM GMT
Seriously, the one other non-fam card we received was from a funeral director. – 12:54 AM GMT
@kelliebob not yet! DMing – 01:05 AM GMT
@hell0jed sure! – 01:30 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 i ran out of the NOS letterpress i’ve been using this year finally, but viv’s getting a late pic batch so there will be more – 01:45 AM GMT
it’s weird, i was actively down on xmas cards for years but the past few i actually look forward to sending them – 01:46 AM GMT
@bradleystein this past Thanksgiving I had a fascinating and multifaceted conversation about retirement planning with my brother in law – 02:06 AM GMT
RT: @jazzedloon: 30 rock knew all along pic.twitter.com/​EiGLDyhzbh – 02:07 AM GMT
trapped send help pic.twitter.com/​d4jZESL5Wi – 02:11 AM GMT
@joshmillard what hapn to xmas wut – 02:17 AM GMT
i think maybe i saw that both “Wolf Hall” and “Jonathan Strange” are inbound next year. I think I even remarked on them. That’s good. – 02:19 AM GMT
@telemetrist bump up some Public Enemy next – 02:45 AM GMT
I know nothing at all about the whole Interview thing, then I heard the NYT reports unnamed sources say it’s North Korea. Uh-huh. – 04:47 AM GMT
@tonymillionaire how ye get them baseballs on a string – 12:50 PM GMT

Mr. Petersen from Bob Newhart is the piano player in Altman’s “The Long Goodbye” – 03:31 AM GMT
@RobPeoni @annkpowers Ann you should ask Rob about his gig, really you should – 04:08 AM GMT
@wasta you yourself have stated “there is no work here, only pain” – 05:53 AM GMT
@wasta yes, word on the, um, what, housekeeping circuit is that we don’t wanna know – 05:55 AM GMT
@gjcharlet your next move here must clearly be promotional hourglasses – 05:17 PM GMT
@brownpau @airandspace is that *back* to Milestones? I remember it hanging over a gallery entrance in the 70s. Guess maybe that was Space. – 07:30 PM GMT
@cstross my buddy @arthurwyatt’s daughter is named India and this struck me as disorienting but plausible – 11:19 PM GMT

@anildash the purple shoutout, nice – 01:50 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone @arthurwyatt i had basically Art’s precise thought as well, definitely specifically abt SOA – 04:13 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @LeavittAlone the muscle exhaustion and reanimation bit is prolly just for, you know, tired typists. Finger motion. – 04:19 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt archive.org/​details/​Spirit… // but man, there is NO WAY that’s an authorized stream. Surprised to see it at archive.org. – 04:57 AM GMT
sudden and forceful memory of the five minutes i once spent here: pollocks-coventgarden.co.uk pollocks-coventgarden.co.uk – 07:45 AM GMT
what? they have an iOS app. that’s suspiciously unliddite. appsto.re/​us/​ofYpy.i – 07:49 AM GMT
oh for god’s sake. you can record your little paper characters in action, presumably with funny v/o. – 07:51 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone @arthurwyatt precisely. – 07:52 AM GMT
@mwhybark uh, unluddite. i meant. as you well knew. – 07:58 AM GMT

@JoanArkham @NMNH i have a pic of me on it circa 1985. not digital, obvs – 12:41 AM GMT
@JoanArkham @NMNH nope, i do have it! pic.twitter.com/​0nQfKx3l7w – 12:43 AM GMT
@azender, @esinclai m.youtube.com/​watch?v=WWvt3E… (es please vet for az, due to offputting title) – 03:43 AM GMT
@azender @esinclai “you have come to watch! watch it!” – 06:43 AM GMT

@JoeTheDough bad dates, as it were – 12:16 AM GMT
Viv asked if there was anything she could pick up at the store. pic.twitter.com/​nAvFUMOdWi – 12:44 AM GMT
@JoeTheDough poor bastid – 12:45 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @matthetube LMK about the Crest screenings of Fury (i kid) – 02:21 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @matthetube may I suggest Bedknobs and Broomsticks? Scarfolk / Laundry manqué a la Disney, with songs! (cc @gjcharlet) – 02:23 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt also, beering thread, Rory Kinnear in Hollow Crown as Bolingbroke: google.com/​search?q=hollo… – 02:27 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt you are to show said images to your progeny and insist armor / cape / beardyman is you. – 02:28 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt stated opinion that kinnear shares Wyatt ancestor appears undocumented. therefore it may arise from the genius of the grain. – 02:30 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @matthetube @gjcharlet phony war, magic, Angela Lansbury what what – 02:31 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @matthetube @gjcharlet a moderately disturbing prospect for any parent, one assumes – 02:32 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt well Heather then – 02:36 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @matthetube @gjcharlet phew, that’s a relief – 02:39 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @matthetube @gjcharlet well that’s improbable (sudden setting shift) /removes flowerpot from head – 02:41 AM GMT
@naxuu smartness is merely a dimension of class privilege. not even joking. – 04:32 AM GMT
@telemetrist @agent_cooper @hell0jed oh yeah, there is a correlation. isolation as impetus. good insight. cc @ftrain – 06:08 AM GMT
@JoeTheDough in re the matter of xmas beards willitbeard.tumblr.com – 07:20 AM GMT
@telemetrist placename rings a bell, might be one favored by ex-npb mlb guys – 07:22 AM GMT
@ericweddle congrats! now pitch some sorta MFT segment! – 07:13 PM GMT

@joshmillard that’s 6.5 mins per song. You’re a 2-take wonder! – 01:22 AM GMT
“Only Lovers Left Alive” opens from a single into a scene featuring a white Supro and a scoopneck Silvertone. Fuck yes. – 03:23 AM GMT
Hm, cracking Connie Willis’ Blackout/All Clear. A teenage protagonist cutting school begging for a time travel ridealong? Um. Sell me on it. – 06:24 AM GMT
hoo boy. apparently in the future of academic history the Great Man theory has charged back into the room, guns a-blazing. – 06:45 AM GMT
and they also don’t appear to have email or personal computing technology or cell phones. i wonder if the retrograde academics are a clue. – 07:12 AM GMT
… that might make the hackneyed Golden Age opening a structural clue. OK, possible case of overanalysis but at last something to chew on. – 07:16 AM GMT
and just in time! that observation hit at 10% in, the threshold i’d set to drop it and move on if no hook was set. – 07:17 AM GMT
@agent_cooper and @hell0jed will find this interesting, i think. maybe @telemetrist too. twitter.com/​cstross/​status… – 06:20 PM GMT
OMG this ad – 11:28 PM GMT
@DanEngler right there with you, as an examnation of my TL will show – 11:55 PM GMT

delightful evening with @hell0jed and @arthurwyatt in LQA. – 07:35 AM GMT
elaborate dream of a winter holiday event held at a nearby tourist town in the mountains – 06:30 PM GMT
complete with boeing flybys – 06:30 PM GMT
except the event was a large scale recreation of a Roman legion’s repulsion by the townspeople, who appeared to be of the Islamic faith – 06:32 PM GMT
The Romans and defenders were all played by area volunteers organized like community baseball teams, such that each group had sponsor logos – 06:33 PM GMT
The groups would perform a choreographed song and dance number beneath their sponsor’s legion standard on first appearing in the plaza – 06:34 PM GMT
so the dream appears to combine elements of the NOLA Mardi Gras indian and marching society traditions with Hispanic and Venetian Carnival – 06:36 PM GMT
With a big difference: the primary cultural referent of the people in the dream was the Roman Empire. Thus, when the marching clubs fought – 06:37 PM GMT
They were actually killing each other. This was a Saturnalia holiday pageant but within a the world and culture of modern Washington State – 06:38 PM GMT
if the Islamic breakout of the 700s had run the same cultural channels as Christianity did into and through the Roman Empire. – 06:41 PM GMT
Tweetles and tweetettes, my fucking unconscious mind. I ask you. – 06:42 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt @hell0jed you have to eat a raw egg, by manly statute – 06:43 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt on FB some other disgruntled Seattle users have been citing a service called Instacart w/$99 yr base. Haven’t Googled it. – 07:29 PM GMT

The coveted Milo 2014 auto. This here gwine be worth something someday. pic.twitter.com/​vDQKi7fpUR – 12:09 AM GMT
@mwhybark I mean to say, it’s worth something NOW. It shall appreciate. – 12:10 AM GMT
RT: @FearDept: At least one of our soldiers took her own life rather than be a good sport. What did she see? We redacted her diary. pic.twitter.com/​L3l4cRiVwj – 03:39 AM GMT
that is some WIND. And I’m not even ranting yet! – 03:48 AM GMT
My wife’s mom has the all timers. Her brother is a fire captain in OC. He has an EMT’s sense of humor. – 04:00 AM GMT
We just gave him and his wife a DVD of “The Notebook” for Xmas, – 04:00 AM GMT
WhoooossshoooohhhshhshhTHUMP sshhhhhh WHHHHHHSSSS flicker – 04:11 AM GMT
RT: @kystokes: How much the ground has sunk near the @BerthaDigsSR99 repair shaft, per this @wsdot map obtained by @publicolanews pic.twitter.com/​s9Fnc3a1SD – 03:35 PM GMT
Holy shit! They’ve dug too deep! It awakens! Ai! Ai! O world of men – 03:36 PM GMT
@azender @MayorEmanuel @cromnibus depends on which PAC would buy it in bulk to launder donations into a personal fortune, Anne – 03:41 PM GMT
Wait, Airstrip One is on the fritz? – 03:42 PM GMT
@deathmtn my old roomie jack would do that all day, sitting in his rocking chair, scales on a headphone strat, bididididippptingtingipppidid – 03:45 PM GMT
RT: @JoeTheDough: The dopeness catvincent.tumblr.com/​post/​104997997… – 03:49 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough hell yes – 03:49 PM GMT
@DanEngler oh, sorry, did that wake you? – 03:50 PM GMT
@deathmtn @godtributes i never knew that was you! GODTRIBUTES FOR THE GODTRIBUTES GOD – 03:53 PM GMT
@ftrain i’m concerned you have a symptom of intronitis, paul – 04:00 PM GMT
@mubay they’re on track to do that and take out a National Historic District too! ALSO CENTURY LINK FIELD. Should be some fun politics. – 06:14 PM GMT
RT: @WT_Dore: #Mefi today: #HIV study leads to finding 6 million year old #retrovirus hiding in human (and #neanderthal) #DNA mefi.us/​w/​145286 – 06:15 PM GMT
@WT_Dore THE WORM BENEATH STIRS – 06:15 PM GMT
@mubay well, give it time. I’m sure after 25 years of public discussion and ten public votes we’ll be guided to an impractical solution. – 06:16 PM GMT
@mubay an impractical, expensive, unworkable solution. – 06:22 PM GMT
RT: @guardian: Face-sitting protest outside parliament against new porn rules gu.com/​p/​446v2/​tw pic.twitter.com/​Bn9PYsxqQb – 06:23 PM GMT
hey @earinc & @fantagraphics dig the Value Village score: 3 xmas week ’66 newsprint Pogo dailies, framed up back then pic.twitter.com/​6pva7yv1ek – 06:31 PM GMT
@sumit /flings souvenir teacup to floor in outrage, stands up – 07:04 PM GMT
@sumit ha ha it’s more a mudlarked Crystal Palace eggcup actually. Came pre-shattered, courtesy mama Thames. pic.twitter.com/​mEGOrJoTde – 10:09 PM GMT
@sumit but a line of kitschy pseudo-1984 souvenirs would indeed be AUSOM – 10:11 PM GMT

@ezrakilty like a spitshower – 12:48 AM GMT
RT: @pourmecoffee: “Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer, Project Apollo” medium.com/​@3fingeredfox/​… #AdaLovelace pic.twitter.com/​z3KM7jCwL5 – 12:51 AM GMT
@hell0jed yaaaayyy /grover arms – 12:54 AM GMT
@poupou @zipties define “people”. oh wait, am i othering? those insects – 12:59 AM GMT
@deathmtn /gazes wistfully at dusty atari 2600 – 01:01 AM GMT
Is there B5 streaming? missed it 1st time thru. – 01:04 AM GMT
RT: @JoeFeagin: Interesting ‘discovery’ the US state tortures. US state backed torture of enslaved African Ams for 246 years & those Jim Crowed till 1970. – 01:06 AM GMT
@dylanw @arthurwyatt i use screenies as a citation method all the time now. there’s a thing in common here – 01:09 AM GMT
@tracicle I totally believe this, but cite? – 08:53 AM GMT
@tracicle ah, here it is – 08:53 AM GMT
@tracicle i found it! – 08:54 AM GMT
@tracicle i just understood – i read it like forest:metaphor for longass URL with session gook, serialization and so forth, which worked too – 09:40 AM GMT
@tracicle something like a mondegreen but not. an autocorrect retcon. or something. – 09:41 AM GMT
RT: @DanEngler: Though next week’s @Serial may be the season finale, worry not:the off-season companion show—America’s Next Top Murderer—begins January 8! – 05:40 PM GMT
@DanEngler that kills – 05:40 PM GMT
Fucking disgusting and totally predictable. slate.com/​articles/​news_… – 05:42 PM GMT
RT: @keithpille: How the hell have I never watched this?avclub.com/​article/​doones… – 05:50 PM GMT
Full on pic.twitter.com/​DiIIwa6iim – 11:38 PM GMT
Yaaay @gjcharlet pic.twitter.com/​tW66sf8enb – 11:52 PM GMT

RT: @trutherbot: pic.twitter.com/​lEzYr5dkQw – 07:05 AM GMT
@mattblaze @edinblack objective is to reinstate torture as an American military and law enforcement control mechanism. jury’s still out. – 07:10 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt not sure it’s fate exactly – i mean you know i think they expected events like that and the script we got was one on the shelf – 07:15 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt i mean i guess the fate part is that the evil clowns had the ball – 07:15 AM GMT
RT: @rjl20: 85 killed since 9/11 dlvr.it/​7mz7pt – 08:40 AM GMT
oboy oboy oboy oboy tor.com/​blogs/​2014/​12/​… – 05:16 PM GMT
RT: @keithpille: Nothing worse than a guy walking around in giant shoes and a fake red nose, indignantly asking why people call him a clown – 05:18 PM GMT
SIXTY FOUR DEGREEES – 06:19 PM GMT
Remember my torture rant? OF COURSE YOU DO. Newsweek on Central America, torture, and the CIA: newsweek.com/​cia-torture-pr… – 07:05 PM GMT
@zipties ABSOLUTELY. It’s completely unique, a work of actual genius both as SF/F and from a strict literary and structural standpoint. – 07:11 PM GMT
@zipties i found it tough going at first, because part of the work’s genius is the author’s close emulation of the voice of 19thc writers – 07:13 PM GMT
@zipties I have no patience at all with Austen and Eyre etc., as I find their formality of language appalling and obfuscatory. – 07:14 PM GMT
@zipties but those are the authors Clarke is channelling in the opening chapters. so it was tough. but i stuck with it, and it is fantastic. – 07:16 PM GMT
Thoughts directed to .@zipties on “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell” storify.com/​mwhybark/​conve… – 07:19 PM GMT
I’m sure that reading the book shortly after a visit to The Soane Museum in London helped. soane.org – 07:20 PM GMT
Clarke relied on the museum as a source of research and inspiration while writing the book, iirc. The museum’s library room appears in-book. – 07:21 PM GMT
Google image search results for the room: google.com/​search?q=soane… – 07:24 PM GMT
I had no idea of the association between the book and the museum as I read the book, and it was and extremely uncanny reading experience. – 07:25 PM GMT
The museum appeared in my mind’s eye for early 19th century settings and interiors. Then the book began to explicitly reflect that. – 07:28 PM GMT
It was literally as if the book had changed in content to more accurately reflect my expectations, print writhing behind each hidden page. – 07:29 PM GMT
It was an indescribable experience, just serendipity, of course, and not likely duplicable. An actual magic book. Fucking amazing. – 07:30 PM GMT
Other media referents for the book, which do not appear to have been directly cited by Clarke: the films “Barry Lyndon” and “The Duellists”. – 07:33 PM GMT
Both Kubrick and Scott directly lift shot compositions from specific 19th century paintings, Kubrick even relying on Horgarth. – 07:33 PM GMT
The Soane incorporates an astonishing and compact salon-style gallery that includes several large-scale Hogarth paintings. – 07:35 PM GMT
Google image search results for “Soane Hogarth gallery”: google.com/​search?q=soane… – 07:36 PM GMT
Anyway. Manuel (who stopped twitter following me because I bitch about stuff) says he wishes I’d blog again. He might be right. – 07:37 PM GMT
@azender Anne, it was a total head-bender. I would literally rub my eyes sometimes wondering if I had just read a passage or not. – 07:38 PM GMT
SIXTY EIGHT DEGREES – 07:40 PM GMT
@naxuu year of thirsty sus randos – 07:42 PM GMT
RT: @laureneoneal: @naxuu My Year of Reading the Comments – 07:59 PM GMT
Web (M5) @naxuu good, you could spin that into a TED talk, a public radio show, podcast, local spinoffs, good good – 08:01 PM GMT
Web (M5) Don’t forget, TAL covered the Afghan interrogation death in 2003: thisamericanlife.org/​radio-archives… – 09:32 PM GMT