Better Than Friday - 68 (Patreon)

Good afternoon ya'll, 

I'm recovering from an exorbitant amount of tryptophan and cheesecake. 

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving, I'm very thankful for all of you. 

Also, I just wanted to bring attention to a nice article on "Cancel Culture" from my friend and patron Aysha in The Gulf today. 

1. A Book that just arrived in the mail  

I've never read anything by the Catalan author Josep Pla but this arrived the other day and looks fantastic. 

Dripping with a panache that can turn in a comic instant to the most conciliatory humility, Josep Pla’s foray into the land and sea most familiar to him will plunge readers head-first into its mysterious (and often tasty!) depths. Here are adventures and shipwrecks, raspy storytellers and the fishy meals that sustain them. After describing the process of beating an octopus with branches to soften up its flesh, Pla writes, “These are dishes that must be seen as a last resort.” Pla inflects the mundane with the hidden rhythms of power sculpting culture, so that a hot supper is never just food–it embodies economic precarity and environmental erosion along with its own peculiar flavor. A lifetime of reporting on current events gave Pla the necessary skills to describe the world in all its gritty, funny, invigorating detail.

- From www.penguinrandomhouse.com

2. Ukranian Minimalist Piano music 

A great recommendation from Poet and Translator @kitkitkitkits 

Good November music. 

3. What was in my head as I was cooking the bird.  

Naturally. 

Look at that dance.

4. A Cool Independent Publishing Company 

Several things on here I'd like to read...

Wakefield Press is an independent American publisher devoted to the translation of overlooked gems and literary oddities in small, affordable, yet elegant paperback editions. Our publications include the Wakefield Handbooks series (the guidebook as imagined through literature), the Imagining Architecture series (architecture as imagined through literature), and the Imagining Science series (science as imagined through literature), as well as forays into classic experimental fiction (literature as imagined through literature). Authors range from literary giants to those underrepresented (or unknown) in English.

- From www.wakefieldpress.com

5. Acid Horizons 

Acid Horizon is a theory podcast which confronts global crisis and the specter of a world that could be free. 

- From their Youtube "About" page.

This video in particular is on Georges Bataille's "Notion of Expenditure".

Isn't this wine label the best?