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the all-shout time of Cuban familial loving expression can be challenging for persons from households that practice all-silence time – 04:49 AM GMT
@seattletimes @edinblack Dear ST twitter person: ‘mar’ is an inappropriate word for unwanted or unruly political speech. Thanks. – 07:56 AM GMT
@poupou @alexpalex aahhh – 08:37 AM GMT
@edinblack @seattletimes I dunno about “disrupt,” Ed. they delayed some busses, I believe, which fits direct usage in my opinion. – 09:31 AM GMT
@edinblack @seattletimes like if it was “protests disrupt tree lighting, transit” I think that’s straight enough. – 09:33 AM GMT
@edinblack @seattletimes but invert it – “protests disrupt lighting, mar transit services” – and the slant is more apparent. – 09:34 AM GMT

@poupou nooooooo – 09:21 AM GMT
RT: @sumit: Man in corner shop cheery as he simultaneously sells me a can and another bloke chocolate. “Busy today! Very busy. Black Friday, innit?” – 04:19 PM GMT
@gjcharlet that’s what Viv used for her Halloween getup! – 07:25 PM GMT
.@gjcharlet can’t recall if I posted this here or not: pic.twitter.com/3kvqVavDjQ – 07:32 PM GMT
Grotesquely obese man drives cart past. He holds a large Pepsi cup. Four Costco polish dogs protrude sans bun. He tilts cup to mouth, bites. – 08:23 PM GMT
@gjcharlet indeed, sir – 08:24 PM GMT
Weirdly, Costco is as empty as the airport was, relatively speaking. – 08:30 PM GMT
@ElSaborAsiatico @billbarol a do what now? – 08:52 PM GMT

@esinclai starting to wonder if we each get our own – 12:01 AM GMT
@surlygourmand I don’t even have the heart to make a your mom joke – 12:05 AM GMT
Boarding in our teeming twos and threes – 12:08 AM GMT
@esinclai maybe not even a jolk – dest is SNA – 12:09 AM GMT

@tclancy My punk rock compadre Yukki has been Bostonian for nigh on 30 years, I suspect he may want to drive up. – 05:49 AM GMT
so there i was readin my nooyawkuh when BAM my pilgrim pal and my bud’s pop. woah! (cough @johnpstrohm @LeVostreGC) pic.twitter.com/KAep5sMotq – 08:13 AM GMT
@esinclai @johnpstrohm @LeVostreGC @esinclai @johnpstrohm @LeVostreGC inorite? london urbscape book! yaaaay /grover arms cc @sumit – 12:46 PM GMT
ha! in-browser Lunar Lander, tablet-friendly! moonlander.seb.ly – 02:36 PM GMT
@johnpstrohm easy street from here on out! OTOH, if his pubs get it set as a standard textbook… (I saw @LeVostreGC allude to it a bit ago) – 02:38 PM GMT
@johnpstrohm bundling. you & @LeVostreGC here collab on all-Chaucerized covers LP. big appeal to AP HS English teachers, school boards. hit! – 02:59 PM GMT
Another Interstellar take at Vulture vulture.com/2014/11/inters… – 03:26 PM GMT
movie that evoked derisive laughter and SF nerd frustration from me during the screening, I sure am thinking about Interstellar a lot – 03:29 PM GMT
so maybe it’s better than I thought, despite the flaws (which, as noted, appeared to me structural, probably procedural, and technical) – 03:31 PM GMT
meh, that vice link is a mess. the writer doesn’t understand the actual words they are using. – 03:35 PM GMT
“The narrative emphasizes analog communication through binary pings, Morse code, and the second hand of a watch.” – 03:36 PM GMT
As if binary could be considered analog, or as if the encoded message is analog because the watch itself is analog. so, like, never mind. – 03:37 PM GMT
d’oh, not vice. vulture. i too m dum – 03:40 PM GMT
oh, this one’s better. no wonder i was annoyed – there’s plot holes in the plot holes! vulture.com/2014/11/21-thi… – 03:47 PM GMT
@esinclai no, but they do note how strange the directorial use of him is. they literally cite the moment when one asks, “wait, is that…” – 03:57 PM GMT
Wow, full-on video interstitial to access free airport wifi. I mean ok, what took you so long? But also yeesh. – 11:28 PM GMT
Also seventiestastic aor softrock soundtrack. Nothing, NOTHING, could be more Alaskan. – 11:30 PM GMT
Busiest travel day of the year pic.twitter.com/P8qT1EGvbn – 11:49 PM GMT

@zipties @poupou “beasts of the southern wild” amazon.com/Beasts-Souther… // like a bacigalupi story, but 100% indie. love it. – 01:29 AM GMT
@PeteCampbell_NY hey Pete, maybe stick to your own decade for now, huh? – 02:09 AM GMT
@PeteCampbell_NY well, granted. I’m still thinking Dawn might have more to tell me about this than you. – 04:08 AM GMT
F&SF FARMHOUSE TROPE UPDATE: Wizard of Oz. For god’s sake. – 09:22 AM GMT

both films (as well, as, for that matter, Oblivion, which is really to slight to consider) mistake motley for new cloth and, well, unravel – 10:11 AM GMT
the thing that really drove me nuts was the thoughtless inclusion of needless crap. “You were the best pilot we ever had, Cooper.” Come on. – 10:13 AM GMT
And why hit the Signs / Field of Dreams stuff so hard? You need the room and the relationship, sure. But an hour of setup? – 10:15 AM GMT
Anyway, overall I liked it. I still like Inception, fwiw, but hated “occupy gotham”. Hope Nolan learns to say no or hires a story editor. – 10:17 AM GMT
@praguepainter whoooo – 10:17 AM GMT
@tracicle i have not seen Lucy yet. I did see Her this year, which I thought was pretty darn good. – 04:54 PM GMT
@esinclai @macbikegeek ah, easy mistake. City of God is a clear predecessor to Children of Men. Nussbaum piece? – 04:55 PM GMT
@esinclai @macbikegeek ah, followed the thread up – 04:56 PM GMT
@ftrain kick-fucking-ass. – 05:20 PM GMT
RT: @ftrain: Vice asked last week if I could write some flash sci-fi about Uber. This was incredibly fun to do: motherboard.vice.com/read/one-day-i… – 05:20 PM GMT
Seriously, that Paul Ford story is super genius – 05:28 PM GMT
@DanEngler thankfully, film did not use the b-word and only once relied on a sexist feminine gender trope. the masculine one was pervasive. – 05:36 PM GMT
also, why include Signs / Field of Dreams homage at all? wevs – 05:37 PM GMT
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RESOLVED: a battered house in a cornfield shall now forever stand as a signifier of ghostly familial visitation. Straight cut-ins will do. – 05:42 PM GMT
@clarissawam @metpoliceuk you mean like where cops go undercover for years and make babies in their covert identity? – 07:21 PM GMT
@mathowie DULY NOTED so the plan is beignets next, right? – 08:01 PM GMT
@mathowie prolly they knew it was you and were like, “pancakes, yo” – 08:05 PM GMT
@poupou hmm. is that indicative of *liking* that section or *disliking* the space stuff? Do you reliably like the farmhouse / field setting? – 10:57 PM GMT
@poupou I mean I imagine you are responding to the film in front of you rather than the setting as a genre element, and that’s interesting – 10:58 PM GMT
.@poupou sort of Beasts of the Southern Wild or Looper, maybe? I can dig it. Ha! Looper! Another family farmhouse in SF/F! – 11:01 PM GMT
Ultimately we cannot blame M. Knight or Kevin Costner for the farmhouses. We must hold Bradbury ultimately responsible. – 11:02 PM GMT
No, seriously, it’s been a trope now since him. I bet if I peer hard enough into this 1948 television, I can find an ur-house. Lovecraft? – 11:04 PM GMT
@poupou oh yeah? rectify this immediately! “Beasts” is better than “Looper” but they are both pretty cool. Eco-dystopian futures. – 11:05 PM GMT
@poupou well, maybe Terminator, but you have to squint: rogue military AI as plot element. in story, Cooper has to also gravity-wizard it. – 11:06 PM GMT
@esinclai post Ray, imma say. Plus Ray wrote for Rod. – 11:07 PM GMT
@esinclai No farmhouses there, I think. water-harvesting ecotopias and planetary urbs. could be wrong, he wrote a lot. – 11:09 PM GMT
“A Wrinkle in Time,” for god’s sake: THEY EVEN CALL THE INFINITE BEDROOM LIBRARY A TESSERACT. Borges, too, obvs – 11:10 PM GMT
@DanEngler kindly old revenant grandma setting out the handwavium pies – 11:11 PM GMT
@surlygourmand CORN CASSEROLE and CORN ON THE COB mmmm – 11:11 PM GMT
@DanEngler settin on the mastaba pluckin the bullhead harp, swilling something not quite whiskey – 11:14 PM GMT
@poupou but should regain you at ‘starring J-G Levitt’ – 11:14 PM GMT
@surlygourmand heh, yes. although i should rewatch that more critically, as I kinda get skeptical now – 11:15 PM GMT
@surlygourmand i was thunderstruck by it technically and by its debt to Gene Wolfe (his Latro books introduce the amnesia mechanism) – 11:17 PM GMT
anyway. gotta leave the farmhouse to walk the dog. keep the fambly ghosts in line for me. – 11:18 PM GMT
@poupou literal broseff. BRO-SF HA HA HAcall the chipopo – 11:53 PM GMT

@mathowie that whole side of the park, amazing – 02:05 AM GMT
yeeehaUUUGH did i put too much chipopo in that taco meat HAUUUUUUWWW – 04:52 AM GMT
@poupou AI YI YI it’s a four-unit moving violation! – 05:23 PM GMT
@cstross how is Bob anyway? i’m beginning to feel concerned for him. – 05:41 PM GMT
@LeVostreGC well, he is a lawyer – 05:56 PM GMT

RT: @mubay: 20 seconds into the future flic.kr/p/6cWMD5 – 03:04 AM GMT
@mubay MAG NA NÓGTH – 03:12 AM GMT
@mubay sky def not color of dead channel – 03:12 AM GMT
@middleclasstool she must be pretty pee oh’d about that ‘basically’ – 03:14 AM GMT
@deathmtn oh, man. please tell me they have a reality show contract with like 24/7 lens dudes – 03:17 AM GMT
@tclancy mr clancy that is some twitter level advance rightcheer i thank you – 03:19 AM GMT
@gjcharlet in general i would think you would avoid unheated tomato-based food – 03:37 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @deathmtn SCRIPT THEM ART – 03:39 AM GMT
@AriTruscan wait, France? can we just scale up for here, or do we have to add a powerup? – 03:41 AM GMT
@gjcharlet cold chef – 04:17 AM GMT
@gjcharlet but a very tangy sauce – 04:18 AM GMT
@AriTruscan …so …not here because …we’ve passed through that stage …meaning our suicide epidemic is past. Right? /squints doubtfully – 04:22 AM GMT
.@mcgee_gorgo plus i find it’s much harder to find podcasts available in cassette binders or 8-track – 06:02 AM GMT
@joshmillard yeeeaugh not on an ipad so dizzy – 06:11 AM GMT
@middleclasstool @tracicle so she went with Lex, then. – 04:48 PM GMT
@gjcharlet yeeooaugh – 04:58 PM GMT
“the northwest’s largest collection of vintage WORKING portable hairdryers” seattle.craigslist.org/see/cbd/475435… – 05:39 PM GMT
@misskeli @cmcmahon @arthurwyatt art can provide color commentary as a recent practitioner of performative IKEA tweets – 05:49 PM GMT

Apparent real black bearskin rug at Lake City Way Value Village this morning. Bemused by this. Did not get price, deets. Ugly sweater party? – 12:34 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt just now noticed yr badass avatar. looking forward to seeing it IRL someday. hm, my local ups store has a 3d printer… – 01:38 AM GMT
I posted about this on FB yesterday. Still worked up. AAAAHHHH pic.twitter.com/rBjtxRGehI – 02:35 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt tell sovfab to get on the stickny – 07:02 AM GMT
@sumit and it’s the One True* ship! I KISS YOU*well, 1701-D is too – 04:40 PM GMT
@Sherman_Alexie you are KILLING IT on the radio hoops fan. SING IT. – 06:46 PM GMT
@praguepainter dry and hard as a rock – 08:25 PM GMT
oh for the love of god both the dog and the cat are snoring. it’s very soothing and perhaps I should just – 08:32 PM GMT

@mubay @DanEngler one for Jim and one for Uncle Jim – 01:26 AM GMT
“Indiana: ‘laboratory of capitalism'” FUCK NO NUKE IT FROM SPACE TO BE SURE sorry friends of my youth – 01:27 AM GMT
@hell0jed ROCK STAR – 01:29 AM GMT
@gjcharlet aw. I just skipped the thread. Here, hold my hand. – 01:31 AM GMT
@hell0jed i still get black-vision mad when i see it used, unlikely that’s gonna change. idle fantasy: abusing ad placers in interview – 01:34 AM GMT
@anildash yeah no but luv ya just the same anil. – 04:22 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @LeavittAlone you guys are literally talking about a Mike Nichols movie, fyi – 06:32 PM GMT
my cat thinks her function is to watch carefully for any sign i might get up and interfere via aggressive cuddling – 06:34 PM GMT