Noble Dust

Rudolf Steiner attempted to do something along these lines with his "spiritual science". Worth researching for the sake of interest if nothing more, i...

I like the poetic language, but I end up reading it for its sound, which distracts me from any narrative, which there doesn't seem to be. Not sure how...

When is the deadline again?

I fall into the camp that Tom mentioned. I'm also not really a Waters fan; left to his own devices the cynicism of his songs is ugly and not tasteful ...

Simple but well put together. I dig.

The last good Floyd album.

Oh for sure, I wasn't trying to compare the two. I guess I had in my mind that you've posted other metal; I could be remembering that wrong.

What say you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axGn6qeJHcM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g7Pvyip_U4

Excellent.

:chin: After some quick research, I regret to inform the public that dogs are now used in truffle hunting because pigs do in fact love the truffles.

Or perhaps they're fed portobellos instead. Truffles are an acquired taste after all.

That's a good point. Does the master of a truffle hunter reward the pig with a portion of the spoils? It would only seem equitable. Perhaps that contr...

Is that a truffle hunter?

Thanks for organizing this. Sounds fun!

There’s no doubt Lem is one of the greats. The philosophical questions he poses feel colder and more academic to me, though, in comparison to Dick, wh...

This should be high on your list. Terrifying. I would also include Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Lem and We by Yevgeny Zamyatin to the list.

As you should. I'm ok. I found a working toaster oven on the sidewalk recently.

Welcome back, dude. How are things?

One of the greatest progressive metal tracks of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rggQNCS8UjM

Really sad, I always got along well with him.

A few years ago. Maybe. What was the increase? /when? It feels more inactive than in the past, yes.

Spare yourself the mental energy.

Forum's become pretty quiet, no? Used to be threads on the first page were from 24 hours ago or so. Now the oldest thread on the home page is 9 days o...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMBNKmZgs_Y

:up:

As @"Amity" asked awhile back, any news on a December Short Story Contest? @"Baden", @"Caldwell"?

Ornithological. Gallinaceous.

Everyone except Jamal seems to have missed the important detail that your choice of two adjectives should progress from more common to less. As in, er...

I don't disagree about the cheese factor. We listen to vinyl at my job, and my weird boss had a record of his in for long enough that it broke me down...

Weirdly I didn't either until I listened to some of his records at properly high volume. The somewhat cheesy epicness of it actually makes sense when ...

This was the first proper rock show I'd been to since pre-covid. I did see Kamasi Washington a few months ago at an outdoor festival-style bill. Spiri...

Saw Godspeed You! Black Emperor for the second time tonight. Magical. Effulgent.

Yes

Alas, I'm an ungrateful non-subscriber; don't think I can post photos.

Yes, he’s also done that.

I don’t know the literary world, but I certainly feel that way about the popular music industry.

*Thumbs up photo*

Sure. This isn't a guarantee of publication though; the agent has to successfully sell the novel to a publisher, if I understand correctly.

The manuscript he's trying to get published is sort of magical realism/alternative reality/alternative history...I guess. It's weird. His roots are in...

My brother who's an aspiring novelist was offered representation from an agent today. :party:

Question for you; I'm posting this piece of music because I like it and find it to be good enough to share with other people; do you agree that this i...

I love that knifepoint between late romanticism and early modernism. I'd like to live there.

Yes yes yes.

Truly unhinged: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDTgj_69JKA

I think that even this is a modern notion. It's a modern projection to imagine that in this pre-modern world it was ok to just make up stories in orde...

Cool, Scanner has been on the docket for too long for me. I liked VALIS, but it is bizarre. I don't think I understood it (not sure if it can be). But...

A Scanner Darkly is next on my list. Or maybe I should go back to his earlier period first. I haven’t read Dr. Bloodmoney...

Your spuds always look like they’re sweating to me, which adds a strange layer of tension to each strip. :eyes:

I think you should. I would contribute, which is saying a lot.