Angry Algonquin

@angryalgonquin

Book reviewer at angryalgonquin.com. Lover and supporter of independent bookstores; Starter Packs have 200+ indies! Nordic/Scandi Noir, Iceland, polar history & exploration. Libraries. Cats. Fan of #uglydogs. Sworn enemy of AI. #BOOKSMAXXER

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Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· 25d

FROM THEIR WEBSITE:
Do I need to wash Taylor Farms products before use? All Taylor Farms’ products marked “ready-to-eat” are thoroughly washed in purified water. You don’t need to wash the salads or vegetables prior to eating. Rinsing your fresh vegetables again will not damage the lettuce or vegetables in any way.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· 25d

Of COURSE he would Gail, just LOOK at the guy

Conan O'Brien with his red hair looking particularly up-doing. Very pale. Smiling.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· 26d

PERSUASION {swoons} www.imdb.com/title/tt0114...

Ciarán Hinds and Amanda Root in a still from Persuasion. Black and white.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· 27d

1/ #Atlanta! Tonight, at The Rialto Center for the Arts, gallery owner Shawn Vinson and his conversation with painter Raphael Bahindwa begins at 5:30-7 PM. The theater lobby gallery opens at 4 PM so you can see the exhibition on its final day. #ArtSky 🎨 @thesunatl.bsky.social

Shawn Vinson in black polo shirt and cap, with Raphael Bahindwa in beige shirt, black hat and a big smile. In front of Rialto Arts background.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· 28d

"GENERATIVE #AI IS AN ENGINEERING DISASTER" apple.news/ApZqmbsQoS6i... by @alexreisner.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com

“Yet the returns are diminishing. The bigger an AI model is, the less it improves with each added parameter, and so it must be made bigger at a faster rate just to sustain steady progress. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. Even outside the world of software, it’s hard to find a comparable example, given that economy of scale is the principle that has made light bulbs, cars, and clothing so affordable. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.”

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· 29d

1/ Thursday, July 23rd, the @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social hosts Sam Kelly, author of "Human History on Drugs". The book takes us through those highs (pun intended) and lows on a witty and entertaining ride that uncovers their mind-boggling impact on our past. @bschillace.brandyschillace.com

Promo graphic for the Peculiar Book Club for "Human History on Drugs" by Sam Kelly. Framed gilt author pic on left, book on right. July 23rd at 7pm et.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 13

RIP Sam Neill, who was so very disturbing and yet pitiable in "The Piano" (1993). He deserved an Oscar nomination; he did get a Supporting Actor nom from the Australian Film Institute. "The Piano" on left, "In Cold Blood" (1967) on right.

Shot from The Piano with Holly Hunter and Sam Neil. He is wearing a top hat and other clothing typical of the era. Hunter looks very pale and worried as she well should be.

Sam Neill wearing a stylish men's outfit including dark greay fedora, trenchcoat, gray suit and tie and white shirt. Leaning against jail bars looking right at camera. SO HANDSOME.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 13

Are you sure? No idea why.

Shelf of Erik Larson books:
The Splendid and the Vile
Thunderstruck
Dead Wake
In the Garden of Beasts
Isaac's Storm

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 11

We have a similar buddy who doesn't quite have Pooh's dignity.

Stuffed figure of Bill the Cat from Opus, with his characteristic insane look, on a library table with a lamp and some other tchotchkes.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 11

I already have a plaque in mind:

Bench with a brass plaque that says:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF ME. I'M NOT DEAD YET JUST SELF-CENTERED.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 10

Mac, that is so...German. Have you ever seen this?

Flow chart of German names for animals, based on what it looks like (pig, bear, chicken). where you saw it geographically (friend's house, South America, a tree), and what it does (stink, wear armor, nothing)

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 10

BADGER! My favorite character in "The Wind in the Willows". Below from the 75th anniversary edition. Ernest H. Shephard is the artist.

Mr. Badger from The Wind in the Willows, wearing a tweed jacket, red vest, black and white checkered neck scarf, breeches and boots. His large head is black and white. He is using a walking stick.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 10

3/ "All the White Spaces"—Ally Wilkes. An #Antarctic horror novel you won't soon forget, told from the POV of a stowaway on a voyage much like Shackleton's Endurance. www.simonandschuster.com/books/All-th...

Cover of All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes. Blue-white image of a man on the polar plateau looking toward the Antarctic mountains.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 10

2/ "Spider"—Lars Kepler. A Killer Instinct novel in the Joona Linna Series. Could hardly turn the pages fast enough. Since the book refers to many events in the past, and contains some spoilers, I would read the books in order. I guarantee you'll be drawn into this dark world. larskepler.com

Cover of The Spider by Lars Kepler. Blue font over a black and white background of webs and ropes.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 10

1/ Friday book recs thread: #BookSky 📚 💙 "Letters"—Oliver Sacks. Fascinating, wondrous, illuminating, joyful, miserable, angry and inquisitive. My experience was definitely enriched by having read so many of his books; learning how his ideas/experiences coalesced into his writing.

Oliver Sacks books:
Letters
An Anthropologist on Mars
Musicophilia
A Leg to Stand On
Awakenings
Uncle Tungsten
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
On the Move
The River of Consciousness

Harcover of Letters by Oliver Sacks. Picture of Sacks, black and white, wearing glasses and a cap.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 9

I know a lot of people will groan, but when I was a kid I saw Hide and Seek by Pavel Tchelitchew and became obsessed with it for years. I think I even had a poster. (see alt text)

Hide and Seek by Pavel Tchelitchew: Although he began Hide-and-Seek while summering in Vermont in 1940, the painting is based on a tree the artist had sketched while traveling, six years earlier. At the time, Tchelitchew had made several drawings of the tree, with new elements emerging in each permutation: playful children arrived; branches and roots became fingers and toes. In the final canvas, embryonic figures encircle the trunk, their translucent bodies floating among traces of human and vegetal forms that pulse with a rhythmic multiplicity. The visceral, vibrating mass coalesces on the picture plane, enacting Tchelitchew’s theory of metamorphosis, in which separate moments and perspectives “exist as one, simultaneously, indivisibly and independently.” The painting’s luminous figures cycle between presence and absence, life and death, their movements paralleling the artist’s experience of forced flight and transformation. Hide-and-Seek, which took two years to complete, was ready just in time for the artist’s 1942 retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 9

Suranne Jones as Anne Lister in "Gentleman Jack", the HBO series. She is wearing a top hat and a black jacket and it tipping the hat. SHE IS FABULOUS.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 9

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 7

My stargazer lilies this year are INSANE #GardenSky 🍃

Purple vase with 4 stargazer lilies, incredible bright pink, scarlet, rose, white and yellow.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 5

Fell in love with Iceland in 2022. Been plotting to get back ever since but boy, is it tough to get there from Atlanta!

OP wearing a white parka and white hat, standing in front of a modern art sculpture in Reykjavik and imitating its pose

OP in store, wearing white parka and looking up with alarm at a large troll.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 3

A new Kate Atkinson book is coming out and I'm doing a bibliophilic dance of joy because I know I've got some brilliant reading ahead of me! Please buy/order at your local independent bookstore or @bookshop.org. I recommend all of her books without hesitation. #BookSky 📚 💙

Shelf of books by Kate Atkinson
One Good Turn
Case Histories
When Will There Be Good News?
Started Early, Took My Dog
Death at the Sign of the Rook
Big Sky
Human Croquet
Life After Life
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Transcription
Shrines of Gaiety
normal rules don't apply
Emotionally Weird

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 3

Steller's Eagle ebird.org/species/stseag

ENORMOUS black and white eagle with yellow beak and feet. Way bigger than a bald eagle. On ground, looking for enemies to vanquish.

ENORMOUS black and white eagle with yellow beak and feet. Way bigger than a bald eagle. Alighting on the gloved arm of a man wearing a blue sweater. The eagle is twice the size of the man.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 3

There is a setting in Bluesky which I am pleading for everyone to turn on: Settings / Accessibility / Require alt text before posting / CHECK #Accessibility #AltText

Screenshot of the place to turn "require alt text before posting" ON with a check box

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 2

oh c'MON

Painting of Charles the last Hapsburg with distinctive jaw, lips and other signs of extreme intermarrying.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 2

Cool, cool totally cool #Atlanta

Atlanta weather screenshot, showing temps in the high 90's for the next foreseeable future. May rain, may not.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 2

"The series was filmed in more than 160 different locations over 113 days in Oslo, including notable spots from the book series, such as Harry’s favorite hangout, Restaurant Schrøder." I'm a huge Nesbo fan (see below) and this series is one of the best adaptations I've ever seen.

OP's shelf of Jo Nesbo's books, the Harry Hole mystery and other Nesbo books.

The hardback cover of "The Devil's Star: A Novel" by Jo Nesbo. Closeup of a black and white picture of a woman's face, with a large red star over the right eye.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 2

Stargazer lilies and sweet mint fresh from the garden. Could never have lilies in the house when Mocha was still with us, but I would trade a million flowers to have him back again.

Bright pink and white stargazer lilies and sweet mint fresh from the garden in a rippled glass vase.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jul 1

Hey @stephenking.bsky.social a new restaurant in Atlanta is serving a dish with "bone marrow ice cream served with stewed cherries, thyme and sea salt". Think they got their recipe from the professors in "Holly"?

Cover of Holly by Stephen King. Drawing of a dark green house with a bicycle on the ground in front of it, a sinister tree, and a general air o horror and fright.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jun 29

Vincent Price, THEATRE OF BLOOD I will not be taking questions on this.

Vincent Price in Theatre of Blood, holding his daughter Diana Rigg in his arms. She is dead and he is grieving.

Angry Algonquin@angryalgonquin· Jun 28