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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · 4d

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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · 10d

It strikes me that some of y'all might not have seen the video for "I Do the Rock" lately. Time to remedy that. "It's very stimulating."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXPC...

Tim Curry Official Music Video - I Do The Rock

YouTube video by Tim Curry

www.youtube.com

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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · 12d

I'm terrible at remembering #1 favorites but the first one that springs to mind is "Sunbleached."

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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · 16d

"You may choose one person to tell you The Aristocrats joke"

Samuel Beckett staring grimly into the camera

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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · 21d

Most interesting (in a not-good way) part of the AWS outage was that none of the affected sites and services I saw put up any kind of "we are experiencing an outage" notice. Things ... just ... didn't ... work. That's as bad or worse than the outage itself.

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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · 25d

Cannot help but notice the Sleep No More poster in the background. Cannot help but notice that this makes me agree even more w/ her.

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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · 25d

Not really a horror guy but I really liked I Saw the TV Glow, glad to see it mentioned.

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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · 28d

Thinking about an alternate timeline where Ted Nelson's vision of hypertext and permanent attributions caught on. As opposed to the Berners-Lee implementation and "info wants to be free," which begat some good things, sure. But also enabled LLMs and disenfranchised creators.

Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · 28d

This is my mechanical keyboard. There are many others like it, but this one is mine.
Is it my best friend? No. Is it my life? Also no. But it is pretty handy, and I'll take mechanical keys and a wire over chiclet keys and Bluetooth any day.

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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · Oct 12

I don't disagree with your overall argument. I do think of the great Conlon Nancarrow, though.

Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · Oct 11

Grant.

Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · Oct 1

Why yes, I am pondering the utility of adding the fox/hedgehog dichotomy to the ol' pirate/ninja and dwarf/elf matrix.

Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · Sep 30

I wouldn't normally mention an obvious "I know what you mean" typo, but "H.R. Lovecraft" makes me think of an unholy combination of H.P. Lovecraft and H.R. Pufnstuf.

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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · Sep 26

I use Startpage for most searches, with G**gle as a last resort. I was going to check out Kagi (a for-pay service that some smart friends used) until they started with the AI spiel as well.

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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · Sep 22

Took me a second. The other sense of "drone" has me wondering what kind of ambient blues ol' Jeffrey Lee might've been able to cook up.

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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · Sep 20

Under the Skin

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Karen Meisner @whatnext.bsky.social · Sep 18

antifa literally means anti-fascist. that's all it means. it's a descriptor, not a group. declaring yourself against "antifa" means you are the other thing

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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · Sep 15

Sadly evergreen

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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · Sep 15

This was a good reminder for me to get my Sallis books all in one place and figure out which ones I'm missing and need to acquire.

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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · Sep 15

I talked to podcaster/writer/human extraordinaire Scott Edelman about all kinds of stuff. Give it a listen!

Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · Sep 12

Episode 263 of Eating the Fantastic with @richardbutner.com is now live! Eavesdrop on our Readercon lunch and learn why he defines his writerly self as being neither gardener nor architect but explorer, what ambiguity truly means and why it matters — and more. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

Richard looking at me warily while holding up his plate of fish tacos and fries.

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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · Sep 15

Jim's poem "To a Russian Friend" is in The James Sallis Reader: Point Blank and Black Night's Gonna Catch Me Here: New and Selected Poems. I have no idea whether either of those books are easily available but if anyone can find them, it's you.

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · Aug 31

Coming next month on my Eating the Fantastic podcast — you're invited to join @karenheuler.bsky.social and @richardbutner.com at their Readercon lunches as we discuss how they do what they do and manage to do it so well. I hope you'll subscribe to be among the first to eavesdrop. pod.link/1083737796

Karen and Richard across their tables from me at their respective lunches. Karen Heuler is smiling while holding up the pav from her cheesy pav bahji, and Richard is looking at me warily while holding up his plate of fish tacos and fries.

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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · Aug 30

Sometimes I still really love the internet: "Investigating the Provenance of a Widely Shared Anthony Bourdain Quotation"
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Bourdain Quote Origin Investigation

Investigating the Provenance of a Widely Shared Anthony Bourdain Quotation I. Introduction: The Enduring Words (Mis)Attributed to Bourdain A. Anthony Bourdain's Legacy and Voice Anthony Bourdain (1956...

docs.google.com

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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · Aug 25

A daily question: Do I have outrage fatigue or outrage fatigue fatigue?

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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · Aug 25

A list of good books you can buy and read. For pleasure, even.

Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · Aug 25

Distracted from news by

1) sleeping (aka blasted long covid)
&
2) calculating writers' royalties (aka hoping US dollars still ok usable)

So: thanks for buying these books! — most still orderable from any bookstore or this handy place:
bookshop.org/lists/small-...

(illo by @tanaudel.bsky.social)

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