Mark Pritchard

An apartment is available

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:53:40 -0700

It is my birthday in a little less than a month and less than a month after that (early July) I’ll be in the bay area lookin’ for roommates/apartments/jobs and then I’ll be back here for a month and then hopefully moving all my shit across the country around the end of August/beginning of September.

Give me all the money and also jobs and apartments that are affordable, preferably in Oakland.

kthanks.

A dyke friend in San Francisco has a studio apartment in her house, is looking for a tenant. 4 block walk to BART.

D. Lessing on what novels are now

Tue, 29 May 2012 09:56:52 -0700

Reblogged from Botched & Ecstatic:

During that period of three months when I wrote reviews, reading ten or more books a week, I made a discovery: that the interest with which I read these books had nothing to do with what I feel when I read—let’s say—Thomas Mann, the last of the writers in the old sense, who used the novel for philosophical statements about life. The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don’t know—Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel—the quality of philosophy. I find that I read with the same kind of curiosity most novels, and a book of reportage. Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness. The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and more divided, and more subdivided in themselves, reflecting the world, that they reach out desperately, not knowing they do it, for information about other groups inside their own country, let alone about groups about other countries. It is a blind grasping out for their own wholeness, and the novel-report is a means towards it.

— Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

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Sat, 26 May 2012 11:38:52 -0700

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D’oh, the only problem is that magazines themselves will...

Sat, 26 May 2012 11:34:46 -0700

D’oh, the only problem is that magazines themselves will be extinct in 2029 — or if they are still around for aficionados of that old medium called “print,” I have a feeling they will cost more than ten or twenty dollars. Nevertheless I would willingly fork over $20 — or the 2029 equivalent — to read that issue of “HORN” any day.

odios:

sciencefiction:These are fictional magazine covers from Blade Runner. They were created by production illustrator Tom Southwell in 1980-1981 and appeared in the background on a magazine stand in the city streets. (!!!!)

Cris and I stumbled on this place 25 years ago. Obviously...

Thu, 24 May 2012 21:49:48 -0700

Cris and I stumbled on this place 25 years ago. Obviously it’s still there. The location is here: [Google map]

pamandjapan:

賽の河原 (Sainokawara)

The Sainokawara in Sado, Niigata is a limbo for dead children, at least according to Buddhist mythology. It lies in the middle of the Ono-game and the Futatsu-game. It is a spooky place located at the entrance of a cave right on the coastline and is dotted with small statues and dolls.

It’s Always Sunny in Ph— WHAT THE— Via...

Thu, 24 May 2012 21:32:00 -0700

It’s Always Sunny in Ph— WHAT THE—

Via @CSNBaggs via @JeffPassan via MLB - Photo Gallery - Yahoo! Sports

Windy noon, and it’ll only get windier, as the grass on...

Thu, 24 May 2012 12:43:45 -0700

Windy noon, and it’ll only get windier, as the grass on San Bruno Mountain dries out for the summer.

MarkPritchard: @red_lemonade is having a DNS problem, and with note to users, sent out a new "in progress" site logo that is amateurish and butt-ugly.

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:45:25 -0800

MarkPritchard: @red_lemonade is having a DNS problem, and with note to users, sent out a new "in progress" site logo that is amateurish and butt-ugly.

MarkPritchard: Ending the year in the desert: I'm back in the Mojave Desert, where I spent a month last year. Drove down here w... http://t.co/J1TrxRRH

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:12:19 -0800

MarkPritchard: Ending the year in the desert: I'm back in the Mojave Desert, where I spent a month last year. Drove down here w... http://t.co/J1TrxRRH

MarkPritchard: Ron Paul unclear on concept that SCOTUS reviews potentially discriminatory state laws: http://t.co/r7Ap34ij

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:37:03 -0800

MarkPritchard: Ron Paul unclear on concept that SCOTUS reviews potentially discriminatory state laws: http://t.co/r7Ap34ij

Robin as the "Girl Wonder"

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:27:35 -0800

Robin as the "Girl Wonder":

I’ll bet Robin wished he had a pair like that.

MarkPritchard: All the cool kids will be at this reading tonight: http://t.co/IV4KIMPO Me, I have to work.

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:27:40 -0800

MarkPritchard: All the cool kids will be at this reading tonight: http://t.co/IV4KIMPO Me, I have to work.

MarkPritchard: My brother, a StL Cards fan, said a St. Louis retailer simply gave away all Pujols merch after Albert signed 10-year deal with Angels.

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:38:58 -0800

MarkPritchard: My brother, a StL Cards fan, said a St. Louis retailer simply gave away all Pujols merch after Albert signed 10-year deal with Angels.

MarkPritchard: Still time to buy my novels HOW THEY SCORED http://t.co/IqsaZY9L and MAKE NICE http://t.co/p9MY67xV @ 25% off Use checkout code BUYMYBOOK305

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:07:50 -0800

MarkPritchard: Still time to buy my novels HOW THEY SCORED http://t.co/IqsaZY9L and MAKE NICE http://t.co/p9MY67xV @ 25% off Use checkout code BUYMYBOOK305

MarkPritchard: SEO hackers outraged at Google, as usual. Does anybody NOT in SEO think SEO is a good thing? http://t.co/fQWySgP9 via @seobook

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:42:30 -0800

MarkPritchard: SEO hackers outraged at Google, as usual. Does anybody NOT in SEO think SEO is a good thing? http://t.co/fQWySgP9 via @seobook

MarkPritchard: @dylanhorrocks You're supposed to just buy a new one, I guess.

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:54:30 -0800

MarkPritchard: @dylanhorrocks You're supposed to just buy a new one, I guess.

MarkPritchard: RT @jonrog1: @BeckyKirsch Wal-Mart hacks the CA election process to go around local retail laws. http://t.co/R98VWePL

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:58:24 -0800

MarkPritchard: RT @jonrog1: @BeckyKirsch Wal-Mart hacks the CA election process to go around local retail laws. http://t.co/R98VWePL

sfmoma: We’ve just unveiled new designs for SFMOMA’s expansion,...

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:33:03 -0800

sfmoma:

We’ve just unveiled new designs for SFMOMA’s expansion, planned to begin in the summer of 2013. See all of the images and get a virtual video tour of the new building on our blog, Open Space.

What do you think?

I can see why the W Hotel, which is that skyscraper immediately behind the left side of the new building, hates it — it blocks the views from dozens of their hotel rooms.

Actually I think this picture makes the new addition look atrocious. It’s like the HQ of some evil corporation in a Tom Cruise sci-fi film.

Suggestion: Add skateboard park to the roof.

MarkPritchard: Actually something concrete, not just crazy, on the SHTF collapse blog: Interview with a survivor of Sarajevo seige: http://t.co/v13SxnBu

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:48:10 -0700

MarkPritchard: Actually something concrete, not just crazy, on the SHTF collapse blog: Interview with a survivor of Sarajevo seige: http://t.co/v13SxnBu

MarkPritchard: @amck - hilarious: RT @jillfillipovic http://t.co/fffjBRQ5 Just unpacked my suitcase and found this note from TSA... re: "personal item"

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:37:58 -0700

MarkPritchard: @amck - hilarious: RT @jillfillipovic http://t.co/fffjBRQ5 Just unpacked my suitcase and found this note from TSA... re: "personal item"