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writer | cook | leaning botanical… #queer #trees #hallucination ‘waveform: 21st century essays,’ seneca review, the rumpus, brevity…
gardenias restaurant, sf
Omnivorous reader, given to tumbling down research rabbit holes. Into fractals, cycling, piano, photography.
Past hustles include working for an opera company and a music conservatory, writing on opera and music, wrangling websites, and (way back) driving tractor and operating a roller coaster at an amusement park.
Farm brat living on Vancouver Island and grappling with angst about the environment and climate change. Oxford comma warrior. Caregiver for a sourdough starter named Quasimodough.
Former editor who now reads for fun. Interests: genealogy, Queen Annes, and wasting time on the internet.
I used to live in Amsterdam, but I will never be that cool again.
Writer, editor, believer in humans and key lime pie.
(Pronouns=she/her)
Ich übersetze aus dem Englischen und Russischen, unter anderem Publizistik und Sachbücher mit Schwerpunkt Osteuropa. Ab und an schreibe ich auch, meist auf tell (www.tell-review.de). Hier bin ich nicht monothematisch unterwegs.
Artist. Writer. Weirdo.
Passionate about literature, philosophy and tech
Living in the Flower Flat, taking The Bruin to little kid dance at a place that only sort of reminds me of Suspiria.
Experimental bot which will post a section from a Project Gutenberg book which mentions the current date.
“The current date” of course may not quite match your date, because timezones.
Why? I love randomness and this will surface all kinds of different old books you never knew existed.
How? Just download all of Project Gutenberg and grep. You know how to grep, don't you?
Journaling, current book “Grace” Descriptions: Banner shows rolling green hills in the Cairngorm region of Scotland. Avatar is a portrait of me in front of a California live oak tree.
Media consumer with eclectic taste. Jack of all trades, master of none. Open source enthusiast, working in a closed source business. Small web sympathizer. Never afraid to be wrong, but always trying to do the right thing. I might at times be outright silly and embrace the whimsical on this account.
Theoretical physicist turned privacy engineer. He/him.
Random art/design/museum items via the Smithsonian's API
Bot account, monitored by a human
See also:
• https://zirk.us/@NMARoulette
• https://zirk.us/@GettyRoulette
• https://zirk.us/@HarvardArtRoulette
Content warning for possible nudity. Some historical images may depict POC or people with disabilities in ways we find inappropriate today. Let me know and I'll fix ASAP.
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I live, teach and work in Toronto, Canada. I use political economic theory and lots of empirical research to study the political economy of Hollywood.
I recently published a book titled THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HOLLYWOOD: CAPITALIST POWER AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION. Next big project is on Netflix and streaming media.
I try blogging as much as I can.
My banner is a still from Věra Chytilová's DAISIES (1966).
always for the lost cause
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History, Shakespeare, theatre, museums, cityspace, outer space, tree space, book space. Mainly quiet and walkative. Nocturnal. Thrives in cold temperatures.
Kulttuuri- ja kalliohiippari. Turkulaistunut, vaan ei nopeutunut hämäläinen introvertti, jolle sadan metrin päässä näkyvä toinen ihminen on ruuhka. Elämä olisi mukavaa jos olisi aina talvi ja lunta.
Father, writer, teacher. MA in Media Studies & History. Film Magistery, podcast & video essays about films that matter (YT). Friend of GNU/Linux and FOSS. Prog metal, jazz and classical music ftw. 🇧🇦 🇩🇰 🇺🇦
Editor/Writer/Translator (English to Japanese)/Tiny shadow box & micro book artist / Interests #art #design #architecture #philately #literature #film #photography #food #gardening #italian #Cello #latin #illuminatedmanuscript