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tuesday again 9/13/2022

even though it is very clearly not a friday i still have a fondness for the thirteenth of each month. VERY long making section

listening Bark Like A God by Sloppy Jane. this is what i can only call "sludgy". it sounds like bruised knees and thumbprints on your hips. it sounds like if a VFW basement bar was also a strip club. this sounds like doing your best in an environment that's a mixture of flickering fluorescents and incandescent tubes that haven't burnt out yet, and a drop ceiling that's mostly water stains.

Do you believe in Frankenstein? Dressed up, half-dead, and feelin' fine He looks so sick, I wanna take him for a walk

Baby, let's get down, I wanna bark like a god

this may have already been a tuesdaysong but i have not kept up with "adding the tuesdaysongs to their playlist each week" so who's to say. there was no particular song stuck in my head this week so it's the one i liked most out of what came up on shuffle when i went to go get groceries. i think it is off a spotify-made halloween playlist i played on a whim last fall.

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reading on an indirect rec from @believerindaydreams , The Skylark of Space by E. E. Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby, widely considered to be the first space opera. we have not gotten off earth yet, but found the part where the hero's fiance bodily removes him from the lab where he is overworking himself to death, feeds him an enormous dinner, goes "i am now going to play the violin for you :)" and plays him lullabies until he falls asleep. what the FUCK that's so charming

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watching Snow White and the Huntsman (2012, dir. Sanders) for this shot and this shot only

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playing stray! my god does this game have incredible set dressing. i am lightly annoyed that it didn't clearly signpost when i was leaving a specific area and couldn't come back, but i'm hoping it'll let me back in eventually. i wanna find the rest of the music sheets. the BLUETWELVE dev team is mostly ex-Ubisoft Montpelier folks, which really shows in the forgiving nature of the platforming and the ways you're guided through the (fairly) linear levels. i was surprised to find the Montpelier folks are mostly the Tom Clancy studio with some other weird experimental platformers you've never heard of, bc i really expected this team to have more overt assassin's creed experience. unlike assassin's creed, you are nudged toward hidden bonus secrets and encouraged to explore all the corners but they are infrequent and you are not literally led by the hand to them, which is nice.

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making beloved mutual @dansedan sent me a gorgeous linocut to adorn the lair!!! it will not be shown until the end to heighten suspense

by magic, i found an uncommon size frame in the first thrift store i went to, a store not known to me for its selection of particularly good art or frames. here is the back. the art+mat+backing is held in place with those two wooden strips that swing in and out which is neato

the rest of the process was: go to Michaels, get extremely distracted by Halloween decor, buy paint and precut mat. realize i will have to cut the mat down but that’s fine as long as i don’t have to cut the interior mat opening bc i fucking hate doing those. with the frame, this was about twelve bucks total (eight dollars for the mat).

clean frame (wipe down with barely damp paper towel, realize my mistake, vacuum the paper towel shreds off and vacuum the spiderwebs out of the back), took some nail polish remover to the glass, took the glass into the tub to wash it bc there was some very stubborn dirt, end up scraping it off with a razor blade.

notice there are gaps in the frame corners. try to tap it back into square with a rubber mallet. fail. decide to gently tap it apart and reglue it. still gaps. fill in the gaps with wood glue on a toothpick and hope the paint covers it (yes, mostly). jam it into a square corner, reinforce the edges and weigh the corners down bc it really wants to twist.

leave alone for twenty four hours (difficult). it got two coats of aforementioned black matte acrylic paint. this is a pretty cool frame but 1) it’s not that old and 2) was painted to begin with, and this water based acrylic paint will be fairly easy to remove should someone want to reverse my changes. especially bc i didn’t bother sanding.

put the thing in the thing. slap a piece of watercolor paper in there also so the back of the thing doesn’t touch the wood back of the frame. no idea where I’m hanging this yet but it is ready to be hung wooo!!! i have no pictures of this in natural daylight bc i am writing this at 9 PM. i will straighten the print out before i hang it bc it is JUST barely not quite level

thinking about going back over the frame with some sort of iridescent sheen, bc everything in my house has to be weird or i die, but all my frames are either black, gold, or black and gold and I’m reluctant to switch that up. plus this way the focus is on the sick print. thank you again dan!!!

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"The Skylark of Space” by Edward Elmer Smith & Lee Hawkins Garby, 1928

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The Skylark of Space ♦ By E. E. Smith ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Title: The Skylark of Space

Author: E. E. Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby

Genre(s): Science Fiction

Language: English

Read By:  Phil Chenevert

Librivox Recording

The Skylark of Space is one of the earliest novels of interstellar travel and is considered a classic of pulp science fiction. Originally serialized in 1928 in the magazine Amazing Stories it is often categorized as the first literary space opera, complete with protagonists perfect in mind, body, and spirit, who fight against villains of absolute evil. (Introduction from wikipedia)

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DANISMM in YELLOW!

Fantastic Magazine, 1957

“Looking for the best location”, 1965

Illustration by Mac Conner, 1960

“Dinner Style from Graves”, UK 1974

“The Skylark of Space” by Edward Elmer Smith & Lee Hawkins Garby, 1928

Patrick Macnee as John Steed in The Avengers, 1960s

“Thunderbirds Candy Cigarettes” 1960s

‘Cone’ Chair by Verner Panton, 1958

Antonio Sant’Elia. Airport and Railway Station with Elevators and Funiculars over Three-leveled Street. 1917

De Soto, 1949

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The Complete Skylark of Space - E.E. Doc Smith & Lee Hawkins Garby

The Complete Skylark of Space E.E. Doc Smith & Lee Hawkins Garby Genre: Science Fiction Price: $1.99 Publish Date: July 9, 2013 Publisher: Renaissance E Books Seller: Renaissance E Books, Inc Unabridged magazine version with 10,000 words (three chapters) added that are not in most other ebook editions. When The Skylark of Space was first published in paperback in the early 1960s, the publishers made him abridge the book. Three key chapters that appeared in the original 1928 Amazing Stories printing of the author's manuscript were omitted. These deleted chapters tell of the hero's development from child to young manhood, and his growing romance with Dorothy Vaneman, both of which parallel in many ways those of the author himself, plus the start of intrigue around his discovery of the secret of liberating the energy of the atom. Soon his characters will be careening around not just the solar system, to whose confines science fiction had limited it self until The Skylark of Space was published, but the galaxy. What a honeymoon! Especially with kidnappings, evil alien armadas, wedding dresses to be designed, man-eating dinosaurs to be batted and, oh yes, home to be found somehow, far away on the far side of the galaxy. Yes, it's the galumphing granddaddy of space opera, Edward E. Smith, Ph. D., creator of the Lensmen, in his first ever interstellar outing - and of course the galaxy is just the first stop. Alexei Panshin hails it as "the most fully realized ... most innovative ... most influential" science fiction novel of its era. "When the Skylark of Space first appeared [in the August 1928 Amazing Stories] Edward E. Smith Ph. D. was instantly recognized as the premier writer of American science fiction and would remain that for fully a dozen years more." Why? The Skylark of Space was the first book whose "true business [was] not the exploration of the local solar system – but the exploration of the stars!" Complete text of this must-read romp. With a new introduction, recommended reading lists, notes on the text, and a reproduction of rare promotional material written in 1946 for the first book publication. http://bit.ly/2Locn9Z

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Figure 1 – E.E. “Doc” Smith Things caught up to me again, and so I’m going to have to postpone the Matthew Hughes review to next week. (I have been hauling 45-odd years’ worth of collecting and personal papers around for… um… 45-plus years? And now it’s time to divest, divest, divest. For some reason, “collecting” in the Fahnestalk family looks a lot like other families’ “hoarding.” And I only…