#377

Yeah, FreakAngels is really good. The pace online when it was published there didn’t work for me as a reader initially, but once it was done and I could really consume it in finished form I very much dug it.

The gentrification story in v5 of Ms. Marvel was not my favorite. I liked it mostly as a backdrop for the fun of seeing Miles Morales and Ms. Marvel at a high school science fair, and the related tensions.

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#378

Invisible Cities.
at the end of almost every page i pause and marvel

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#379

Reading Mainframe Experimentalism by Douglas Khan & co - recently made available on monoskop - really good history of early computer art & music: https://monoskop.org/log/?p=19231

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#380

I read Douglas Khan’s Earth Sound Earth Signal a few months ago. Interesting grouping together of artists exploring the use of naturally occurring energy in their work. It got me interested in learning more about the work of Joyce Hinterding.

#381

About once a year I revisit the work of my favorite poet, Czeslaw Milosz, and this month has definitely been it.

He’s written a ton of excellent work but Unattainable Earth is the volume I keep coming back to and has a very “mixed media” feel to me as he embeds correspondence and letters from friends as well as works of other poets that inspired him during the time it was written.

It’s very difficult to describe why Milosz means so much to me. I suppose he captures an endless striving for meaning compounded with an inability to explain why simple things bring us joy or comfort. And a bit of spiritual restlessness. He’s great at mourning the inadequacy of written and spoken language. A good example of his work from Unattainable Earth might be Winter.

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#382

As a Van Halen fan, I’m glad I’ve finally gotten around to this. Someday I hope Michael Anthony writes an autobiography.

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#383

Is the whole thing in capital letters? Like Dave is all coked up and yelling at you for hours.

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#384

Ha, no, but it does have that feel at times. Not sure what’s with that Amazon caption…

#385

What I read in October. I bolded the ones I particularly recommend:

Book That Isn’t a Graphic Novel

  • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths.

Graphic Novels

  • Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Vol. 1: BFF by Amy Reeder and Brandon Montclare (writers), Natacha Bustos (illustrator).

  • Infamous Iron Man, Volume 1: Infamous by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Alex Maleev (artist).

  • Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Vol. 2: Cosmic Cooties by Amy Reeder and Brandon Montclare (writers), Natacha Bustos (illustrator).

  • Aama, Vol. 1: The Smell of Warm Dust by Frederik Peeters.

  • Invincible Iron Man: Ironheart, Volume 1 written by Michael Bendis, drawn by Stefano Caselli.

  • Poppies of Iraq by writer Brigitte Findakly and artist Lewis Trondheim.

  • At a Crossroads: Between a Rock and My Parents’ Place by Kate T. Williamson.

  • Harvey by Hervé Bouchard (writer) and Janice Nadeau (Illustrator).

  • Demon, Volume 3 by Jason Shiga.

  • Peepland by Christa Faust and Gary Phillips, with art by Andrea Camerini

  • An Enchantment by Christian Durieux.

  • Kill or Be Killed Volume II by Ed Brubaker (writer) and Sean Phillips (illustrator), with Elizabeth Breitweiser (colorist).

  • Comeback by Ed Brisson (Writer), Michael Walsh (Illustrator).

  • Throwaways, written by Caitlin Kittredge, drawn by Steven Sanders.

  • Throwaways, Volume 2, written by Caitlin Kittredge, drawn by Steven Sanders.

  • The Wild Storm Vol. 1, written by Warren Ellis, drawn by Jon Davis-Hunt.

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#386

Edgar Froese autobiography (published posthum):

and

“Consider the lobster and other essays” by David Foster Wallace:

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#387

Hah, I just finished David Foster Wallace’s “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”. Very witty, can recommend!

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#388

That book is so great. Have you read his early short story collection, Girl with Curious Hair?

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#389

worth more than twenty characters of its page count in gold. what a remarkable thing to have happened, that comic.

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#390

Haven’t! Put it on my to read list, thanks!

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#391

Entertaining, insightful and very funny. A great story teller.
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#392

…and who is ANGUS? are ac/dc in it too.

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#393

I just finished Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves. Not my favourite of his books, but lots of really interesting ideas… more of a really long exploration of evolution and orbital mechanics than it is a novel. I think I would have liked it more if he spent less time writing about the details of the science and more time developing character and plot, but I still enjoyed it well enough.

I really appreciate the long term thinking in it though, which is most likely influenced by his participation in the Long Now project. There’s even a location in the book that strikes me as a sci-fi future version of The Interval bar…

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#394

It took a while to get hooked but I’m enjoying -

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#395

Thank you for researching what I’m getting my husband for winter holiday!

#396

… and? (as in, why do you recommend… just generally or…?)

I’ve thought about it but haven’t grabbed it yet.