Recommendations

The aspects of life I most enjoy are:

  • Books (especially novels, Sethite Gnostic apocrypha, and compendia of facts about bees)
  • Hip hop (especially by MF DOOM, Outkast, Nas, and Edan)

Here find ye reading & listening recommendations, utterly unrequested, probably unrequited. If you don’t speak English, Japanese, Latin, or Phat Beatz, we’re going to have communication “issues,” but these may be surmounted with a little elbow grease and a lot of “gesturing.”

Some Required Reading

Analog/Arboreal/5-Star Tomes:

More good books, courtesy Goodreads >>

Online/Rhizomatics:

The periodical I most frequently peruse is Language Log, a brilliant accretion of arguments about usage, comic strips about grammar, thoughts on strange new words and phrases, and historical tidbits about why we say (and write) what we do (or don’t). For word nerds.

Curious Expeditions is a friend’s site about the world’s secret/wondrous history; it’s one of the better things on the net. For history nerds, esp. those always on the lookout for huge new images of rare aspects of our natural, medieval, and quasi-scientific world(s). Also dope is Atlas Obscura, run by the same crew. A geographical curiosities wiki.

Wishtank, likewise, is a friend’s journal of humanist thought. Very digestible. Very easy on the eyes.

Electric Literature is just plain cool: EL publishes five new stories every two months, digitally and as a print-on-demand journal of the highest quality. Check out their futuristic steez and good design sense.

I don’t know who runs Bibliodyssey, but I am a big fan. All manner of old books, illustrations of ancient bestiaries, architectures of the Kosmos, outsider art at its best—all the ages of man captured scandalously on vellum.

Soundtracks To The Act Of Verb

The Author Sometimes Listens To Hip Hop
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