Simulacreage

2026 Q1 reads: P.G. Wodehouse — Right Ho, Jeeves M. John Harrison — Viriconium Raymond Chandler — The Big Sleep Homer — Iliad (Lattimore) Lawrence M. Principe — The Secrets of Alchemy Gregory Mcdonald — Fletch Patrick O’Brian — Master & Commander John Crowley — The Deep

Daniel Keyes — Flowers for Algernon John Cheever — Bullet Park Greg Egan — Axiomatic Edogawa Rampo — Beast in the Shadows Ian Mortimer — The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England (cont.)

2026 Q1 reads: P.G. Wodehouse — Right Ho, Jeeves M. John Harrison — Viriconium Raymond Chandler — The Big Sleep Homer — Iliad (Lattimore) Lawrence M. Principe — The Secrets of Alchemy Gregory Mcdonald — Fletch Patrick O’Brian — Master & Commander John Crowley — The Deep

Robert Louis Stevenson — Treasure Island Italo Calvino — The Baron in the Trees Homer — The Odyssey (Fitzgerald)

I’m trying to be more impulsive about my book choices, and not feeling like I’m just finishing obligations that seemed like a good idea years ago. Naturally this led to me starting four translations of the Tao Te Ching side-by-side

by total chance, almost exactly 15 years since my first Goodreads review for it

the Hosono show was really something special. Got emotional hearing the simple sweetness of Peking Duck 🥲

I really don't get the repeated folk wisdom that losing headphone jacks is the reason people play videos out loud in public now. Would someone who already doesn't care about strangers take the time to untangle this on every train ride?

the newest Moonriders album is live on western streaming services! GO GO GO! moonriders.lnk.to/COKM46830

the same person (I think) who wrote a big Metafilter post about Moonriders in 2016 and set me down this dark path has written a much longer discography guide earlier this year world.hey.com/horses/a-bri...

the same person (I think) who wrote a big Metafilter post about Moonriders in 2016 and set me down this dark path has written a much longer discography guide earlier this year world.hey.com/horses/a-bri...

the new Legs on Wheels album is like a prog Jellyfish, this rocks (Legs on Wheels - Oysters on the Half Shell) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvro...

2026 Q1 reads: P.G. Wodehouse — Right Ho, Jeeves M. John Harrison — Viriconium Raymond Chandler — The Big Sleep Homer — Iliad (Lattimore) Lawrence M. Principe — The Secrets of Alchemy Gregory Mcdonald — Fletch Patrick O’Brian — Master & Commander John Crowley — The Deep

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dreams come true in New York City, the only city in the whole world this could be possible in

what are all your most upsetting songs to find out were rerelease bonus tracks? Buggles - The Age of Plastic not having Technopop is probably my mountain here. unthinkable

I choose to ignore that Mio Fou LP didn’t even have Pierrot le Fou on it (only 33min?)