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Zak Jarvis

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Artist, writer, extremely niche historian. He/him.

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Other than *not* writing tonight, I am really enjoying the two tracks that've been released so far of this album:

colinstetson.bandcamp.com/album/the-lo...

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Got a real early morning tomorrow and way too much stress (wife's going in for surgery in the morning -- preventative, not curative), so I'm cutting myself a little slack and not trying to write tonight.

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I am extraordinarily grateful to my younger self for the incredible gift of a vasectomy without having ever had any children. If I had, it would've enmiserated not just me, but them, and caused a net negative in the world.

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The awful irony is that I'm currently probably in the best physical shape of my life. There is, however, no doubt that I've spent 54 years in this meat.

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I am definitely looking at the adventure horizon closing off for me, and that is most surely a mood a half.

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S’truth. Double so for Ghost in the Shell.

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Every time I see that latest Zaslov quote about deregulation, I hear @themountaingoats.bsky.social Autopsy Garland in my head:

You don't wanna see these guys without their masks on
You don't wanna see these guys without their masks on
Or their gloves

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Your move, Hemingway

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I suspect "The Angels of the Waters" is likely to be too!

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I do, in fact, remember that! Don’t know what it says, but I have sold the two stories that took me longest to write (8 years and 10 years).

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<grins uneasily in 25 years of living in California>

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Reading back issues of Urania was much more entertaining, honestly.

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Hah. We've been down similar rabbit holes. Did you have a point where you needed to read a bunch of 1900-1930 porn to get the word-frequency flavor of a very particular kind of dialog right? Also, dear god. The floor plans of 1930's uber-penthouses.

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I've got a friend in Berlin and holy shit, what he had to do to find a place. Basically had to build his own kitchen from the ground up, in a sublet.

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Good reporting on an entirely predictable problem. Fun fact: Airbnb also covers up thousands of sexual assaults every year! Its internal safety team has "cool-down rooms" to take a break from the trauma of what they hear. It's a bad company, a bad industry, and people should just stay in hotels.

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Hey, cool. Good to see some longtermism in a major pub. Thinkin' about the future societies of spore colonies eking out a cooperative life in the six places left on the planet sheltered enough to not denature protein.

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Man, I need to watch that again. Haven't seen it since it was in the theater. I'd like to catch the alternate cut, too. I remember digging it.

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Still on the topic of writing life, how in the hell did I manage to time things so that I'm writing the pivotal chapter where everything goes to hell at the same time my wife is going in for surgery? HOW DID I DO THAT? Also, *WHY THE FUCK DID I DO THAT*?

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every time i think facebook ads have run out of surprises, they prove me wrong yet again

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FINALLY I can stop worrying the paparazzi in my toilet will get pictures of my asshole and start hoping they will.

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“How long does it take dermestids to deflesh a skull?” Just having very normal writer thoughts, and you? (A few days to a few weeks depending on the size of the colony)

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Had a very odd moment the other day on my walk where I saw a flying beetle that looked for all the world like a firefly, which we very much don’t have here. It was just a humble click beetle. Both Elateroidea though, so my brain didn’t totally suck. Those elytra are *distinctive*!

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I am in this picture and I do not like it. Just sub art for photography and writing for music.

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Lost the game at Herbert's Herbs "So Spicy A Midwesterner Might Frown".

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Bluesky! I bring you a gift. Once you realize that you can change the emphasis of "Dr. Pimple Popper" and radically shift the meaning, you have learned the secret art of misunderstanding.

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It's *WILD* how many dudes fail at this.

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Somewhere out there, a dude is discovering that he's the king of a scrapyard, destined to be brought down by tetanus by the child he welds out of his sister's car.

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I love seeing stories about how "The French Excalibur was stolen!" without the context that what was stolen was a sheet-metal replica because of the three previous times it was stolen over the centuries.

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It sure is very Silent Hill now that I’m back home!

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I had this problem with Valentinian Gnosticism and have regretfully decided to do my own translation of part of it which will entail learning Coptic. I am at least accepting this can be part of revision.

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I am shocked to learn you have many things to put into a book.

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58 thousand words into just that.

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There used to be an annual festival in parts of Yorkshire where everyone would chase and kill any stray dog they saw. Oh. Was I supposed to make something up?

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Damn! I really need to see Uncle Boonmee.

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What I’ve learned today is that seeing Marine le Pen crying because she didn’t win the election can give the whole world joy. It’s not quite as good as the great animated gifs of nazis getting their gobs socked, but it’s up there in the pantheon.

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You know, they say that if the maker doesn’t lubricate the wood with his own vomit while carving it, the bowl will always spill.

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Our system of government is like that guy who’s made homebrew upgrades to his Commodore 64 until it can just barely let him browse the web, and wants to tell everyone why his computer is superior.

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Your birthday is frightening me.

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Everything but Highway 1 which goes between the two side streets is a teeny little small town road, but Manor, which goes over the highway is 4 lanes. NO ONE knows what to do at that double intersection.

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