Scratch Pad: Hell’s Language, Cyberpunk Spells

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts serves, I’ve found, as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. Some items show up on disquiet.com before this post, in which case I don’t repeat them. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media. ▰ Could we get another album from the trio Mountain Man, or is that out of the question? ▰ Good morning music can mean something where the clink of a spoon inside a cereal bowl or the whistle of a tea kettle fit right in — and by those measures, Taylor Deupree makes for very good morning music, indeed. ▰ Hell is a book club in which for all eternity everyone around you, one after another, says nothing other than “the language,”…