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Marthine Satris

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Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB. www.heydaybooks.com www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org

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Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Heyday Harvest, our annual gathering & biggest fundraiser of the year, is Sunday October 19th at the Freight in Berkeley. Please join our community of writers, artists, & activists to honor Alice Waters of Chez Panisse & author @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social ! heyday.salsalabs.org/harvest2025r...

Heyday Harvest 2025

RSVP to attend Heyday's 19th annual Harvest.

heyday.salsalabs.org

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 6h

Oh no, the cruelties of relying on ephemera ..

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 14h

Oh this is the kind of good news I needed to find today (yes it's 3 weeks old, but it's news to me today)

Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 24d

Coming in January from Sara Levine the author of Treasure Island!!! The Hitch about a woman who tries to exorcise the spirit of a dead corgi from her young nephew.

Galley of The Hitch on a display table. The cover shows a corgi dog its mouth is open and drool is dripping. Other books are displayed behind it.

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 15h

And I made it! I'm on a plane!

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 15h

Writers: our imaginations are WAY too active and convincing.

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 15h

I confidently texted the person I'm traveling with that I had booked the car. What the actual FUCK my brain is fried

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 16h

Have just discovered the rental car I was confident I had booked in fact I had not booked, just bookmarked? What the FUCK.

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 18h

Please tell me your stupidest travel mistake stories. I am currently on route from SFO to OAK on Bart bc I got to SFO and 1) learned I had unintentionally cancelled both legs of my flight when I changed my return flight 2) I was too late to even get on standby bc I cut it too close

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 16h

I'm strongly opposed to OAK's effort to join in this troupe of confusion. They are trying to rename themselves Oakland San Francisco airport and I'm like, this is so mean.

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 16h

Honestly, possibly a better timeline

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 16h

Of course it did!

I remember taking a Ryanair flight to "Paris" in 2006 and it literally landed in a field. We walked through a pasture to like a large tent, then I had to figure out how to take a bus to get to the Metro to get to actual Paris.

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 16h

Phew!!

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 16h

OH NOOOOO

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 16h

We posted up on the floor with our carryon luggage as a pillow, and we got where we were going, just a day later than all our pick up and travel arrangements had been made for.

Feeling bathed in my father's love and spirit on this day of travel mistakes. The one upside.

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 16h

Hahahahahahahaha, bursting out laughing on my way to the 2nd of 3 airports I'll be visiting today. How did you get home??

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 16h

We very proudly figured it out, booked a ticket through Houston, figured out paying for things online, and booked the ticket.

And then when we got to Houston, discovered to our chagrin that there was a 12 (maybe 18?) hour overnight layover and we hadn't clocked the am/pm or date shift.

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 17h

Xander, are you to blame for the right wing bathroom panic, fess up.

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 17h

I'm now remembering my very first airline booking fuck up, which was also my first time booking tickets on the Internet, in like 2001.

My father & I were traveling fr Calif to Costa Rica, and my mom,who always does the travel logistics, wasn't coming with us, so she left it in our untrained hands.

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 18h

Please tell me your stupidest travel mistake stories. I am currently on route from SFO to OAK on Bart bc I got to SFO and 1) learned I had unintentionally cancelled both legs of my flight when I changed my return flight 2) I was too late to even get on standby bc I cut it too close

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you for the wallet-paining empathy!

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 17h

I made a transfer that's speeding things up and I thiiiink I'll be on time. But, I've been wrong before. Today in fact. Very wrong.

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 17h

Oh JESUS! That's insane on Google's part. Especially since Shannon is an option, and Limerick is exponentially closer to Cork than Dublin.

I'm offended on behalf of Ireland which yes is a small island but not THAT feckin small.

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 17h

Saturday! Think about art and plants and colonial capitalism with local artist Kija Lucas, Wellesley professor of feminist science studies and author of Botany of Empire Banu Subramaniam, and meeeee. 2pm SFAC Galleries Saturday 10/11.

www.sfartscommission.org/calendar/con...

San Francisco Arts Commission

www.sfartscommission.org

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 17h

It's the great gift of the nobel: @alexshephard.bsky.social's rxn

Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 18h

There is only 1 (one) good piece of writing left on the internet and it is this by @alexshephard.bsky.social and @markkrotov.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2015...

The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

newrepublic.com

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 17h

🤜🤛

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 18h

Who has the time??

The optimist in me 1) buys the non-refundable ticket 2) assumes there's some kind of solveable error when she can't check in ahead of time 3) gets to the airport justintime ..

And ends up squandering all the time and money I was trying to save wtfffff

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 18h

And by God I mean BART

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 18h

I am just hoping to God I get to Oakland in time right now and don't miss a second flight