NO TIME TO CHAT I’M WRITING.
I mean, kind of. So many ideas, so many projects, but also so much sunshine and so many other commitments. I am also slightly apprehensive about the scale of flooding and firestorms around the planet. It’s funny how reality is already much scarier than the scorched earth I imagined in By the Feet of Men. All downhill from here.
42,000 words completed on the sequel to Reality Testing. End of August grandstand finish? Sure, why not.
Book of the month: I’m reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being, but it is ironically heavy going, so I will say that Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami is effervescent and breezy in the way that Japanese literature has while addressing weighty issues about the human condition. The cover is cool, too.
Sparking up nostalgia with the smell from a grill:
2 Neutro 9000 - Lady Burning Sky
4 Tom Waits - Jockey Full of Bourbon
5 Jungle By Night - Hot Mama Hot
i recently watched the 1949 boxing movie ‘the set-up’ with robert ryan. boy those fight scenes left literally everything to be desired.