Conglomerate and vivid
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I think I missed last month. Sorry. Lots going on. Lots going on this month too but it seems to be the sort of lots that makes me want to write to you all. I hope you're all well.
(1) I have recommended ambient trombones before but We Fell In Turn is even gorgeouser. Kalia Vandever using just solo trombone, voice and effects to create a swoopy soup of soul. It's beautiful. (bandcamp)
(2) This is the opening to the wikipedia entry on Richard Halliburton:
"Richard Halliburton (January 9, 1900 – presumed dead after March 24, 1939) was an American travel writer and adventurer who swam the length of the Panama Canal and paid the lowest toll in its history—36 cents in 1928.[1] He disappeared at sea while attempting to sail the Chinese junk Sea Dragon across the Pacific Ocean from Hong Kong to the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, California."
He once said:
"When impulse and spontaneity fail to make my way uneven then I shall sit up nights inventing means of making my life as conglomerate and vivid as possible"
I don't really know what that means, but I too would like to make my life as conglomerate and vivid as possible.
(3) I suspect many of you will be drawn to a headline like Sweary Dusters Get A Mention In Embroidery Magazine. Click away. Also visit the instagram.
(4) Joanne McNeil has a book coming out:
"Wrong Way is a novel about workplace precarity and careers. It's about a lot of other things like what it's like to lose a job (many, many times) and how even illusionary AI and "optimization" applications fill in the cracks and accelerate the pain. How the patriarchy determines a woman's potential, how elitism is anti-intellectualism in a tweed jacket, who bears the consequences of middle-class striving, and what’s under the hood of the American dream. And it’s a novel set in Boston that neither revolves around campus life or gritty red-haired criminals"
Everything Joanne has written is brilliant so this will be too. And she's also persuasive and kind about how to help out an author you like.
(5) Liv Hewson is utterly correct.
And that's it. I'll give you back your day.
russell
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Do Interesting is out on 7 September. I guess a pre-order would help with that too, please. You can get it from Jeff. Or the good people.
(There are 893 of you. The USGS, in their "List of Earthquakes with 50,000 or More Deaths", give an estimate that 150,000 people were killed in the 893 Ardabil earthquake, which would make it the ninth deadliest earthquake in history. However this appears to be a mistake)