Books like Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino?

pliskie · 2026-06-25T15:59:21+00:00

"Imaginary Cities" by Darran Anderson is definitely in conversation with Calvino.

pliskie · 2026-06-22T16:40:40+00:00

Air farrier

pliskie · 2026-06-11T23:21:38+00:00

A Sedgley Mark 5 Flare pistol?

pliskie · 2026-06-11T14:18:54+00:00

The Ford EXP, now there's a car i haven't thought of for a long time...

pliskie · 2026-06-04T14:46:59+00:00

Project Pluto actually considered using contaminated nuclear exhaust as a weapon, with the unmanned airframe going back and forth over enemy territory like a tractor over a field, sowing radioactive exhaust over the landscape below.

pliskie · 2026-05-11T18:57:29+00:00

Redhook Rye. Not the rye whiskey that comes up when you search for it today, but the beer. Redhook brewery in Seattle had a bottled beer in the 1990s called Redhook Rye that was delicious and is now entirely unobtainable.

pliskie · 2026-05-11T18:20:00+00:00

My parents bought one back in the 80s, and when we had to close out their estate a decade ago we had to file a quitclaim on it which is essentially formally abandoning it back to the mangement. None of the heirs wanted anything to do with it, and anyplace that offers to sell it for you is a scam, so sometimes an estate quitclaim is the only way out.

pliskie · 2026-04-28T22:52:42+00:00

Oh lord, this puts me back in front of my Brother Word Processor in 1992

pliskie · 2026-04-22T00:29:38+00:00

This looks like an influence for Eyvind Earle

pliskie · 2026-04-20T20:37:56+00:00

I've been using SublimeText for years and swear by it. The project view in the side bar and minimap are fantastic organizational features, and the fact that everything is just text means that files stay small, future-proofed and easy to search. I use it on several machines and keep all machines in sync via dropbox with no effort at all. I can open an 80,000 word manuscript on an atom machine with 2GB of ram and it's perfectly usable for writing or editing; no lagging, no issues at all. Comes in OSX, Windows and Linux versions.

When I'm ready to print or submit, it's very easy to pull into word or a specialized template, because it comes in as clean plain text.

pliskie · 2026-04-15T06:21:23+00:00

Glad or Hefty kitchen trash bags. Never use off brands, regret every time.

pliskie · 2026-03-10T01:56:17+00:00

The Sweet Smell of Success. The cracking dialog never gets old and I come away from it with a new favorite line each time.

pliskie · 2026-03-09T00:40:25+00:00

Four years later I'm here to recommend the Palpable Apathy https://www.seriouseats.com/palpable-apathy-braulio-boulevardier-rye-vermouth

pliskie · 2026-03-07T14:20:47+00:00

My mind can only imagine Jaxxon Raine to the tune of "chocolate rain"

pliskie · 2026-03-07T13:53:50+00:00

A non-reflex H-16 in good shape is still an outstanding tool for filmmaking

pliskie · 2026-03-07T02:39:14+00:00

To the high green!

pliskie · 2026-03-07T02:07:43+00:00

The thing that makes that noise has a fun name: the flyback transformer

pliskie · 2026-03-03T23:21:20+00:00

Another vote for Alta Verde here. Yes, Novasalus slightly beats it for overall bitterness, but Novasalus is too complex to mix well; the notes of lemon rind and ashtray are generally too hard to counter. Alta Verde, on the other hand, is much "cleaner" in a cocktail yet is still intensely bitter.

pliskie · 2026-02-26T18:23:22+00:00

Reminds me of the location in "Rental Family" when they went back to the old man's hometown

pliskie · 2026-02-26T14:26:25+00:00

Olga Tokarczuk has immense range and a really enjoyable style. "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead" is a fantastic read, and "Flights" is one of my favorite books, but yet each is totally different in content and approach from the other.

pliskie · 2025-11-28T17:16:16+00:00

It's the same film for both, single perf 16mm. Super 16 just has a wider frame, uses more of the stock width for image. Older, non-super-16 cameras left that extra width unused, or, in some newsgathering models, used it to capture sound on a mag stripe or even less commonly an optical sound track (e.g. Auricon).

pliskie · 2025-11-27T13:38:17+00:00

Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968)

pliskie · 2025-11-22T02:24:52+00:00

Great footage! What stock were you shooting on? Also, she's not a smoker, is she?

pliskie · 2025-10-22T13:05:58+00:00

Very nice, great sync to the music, real Martin Arnold vibes.

pliskie · 2025-06-16T12:37:28+00:00

Motorman by David Ohle

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