Life forms a surface that pretends to be what it is, but underneath its skin things push and pull
Robert Musil. "The man without qualities" (1931-32)

Mord, peeking over the mountains to the east, he sees a Norwegian lake house in the wilderness as easy prey, but he is frustrated by the fear that despite the tiny victim size, rebuff can be painful, and this leaves him hesitant and growling with displeasure

Today on the volcano.

Ideal walkabout weather today 🍂

Some views at the Filoli Historic House. With @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social who will post wayyyyy more photos than I will.

(can't get over the vistas)

Loving Catherine Lacey's The Möebius Book so far. She's such a fine writer and mordant af.

Baby rabbit and blooming daylily on Japanese island Sadogashima
@hazime13sado

Lost without a compass. I am on a ship. I am on a ship, and I am going to Japan. Lost. Lost. Lost.

Portland band inspired by my novel Borne, named Mordbear. Hell yeah. mordbear.bandcamp.com/album/ep

Around Portland, posh edition...

Its quality is too rare to be successful.

--Unknown editor rejecting Malcolm Lowry's classic Under the Volcano.

Unknown organisms lurked in the depths under the thickness of the broken iceberg www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uUo...

Extract 6/18

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social has two shelves at Powell's downtown with several signed! It's practically a vandershrine - look at all those turned forward covers.

Around Portland, in birds at the Mount Tabor reservoirs ...

so hard not to check for alligators when in wetlands, even here in Portland...