I was hoping for an article about actual weird non-fiction or "creative nonfiction", unfortunately the author focuses on fiction pretending to be nonfiction which at the end of the day, is still fiction. His label of what he calls "weird nonfiction" is seriously misused here.
Readit Newslazlee commented on Weird Nonfiction lareviewofbooks.org/artic... · Posted by u/samclemens
lazlee commented on What it's like to dissect a cadaver (2022) alok.github.io/2022/11/09... · Posted by u/OuterVale
While scrolling, I misread that as - "What it's like to dissect a cab driver" - and was like, huh?
I guess it's time to renew the prescription for my reading glasses.
lazlee commented on My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website naya.lol... · Posted by u/fintler
lazlee commented on My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website naya.lol... · Posted by u/fintler
200+ comments about a 7 years old website = :-)
Great job, Naya.
My favorite translation of the Book of the Dead is Awakening Osiris by Normandi Ellis. Not a literal translation but a reinterpretation of the original text Truly beautiful and full of spirit.
lazlee commented on Which Writers Will We Remember? biblioracle.substack.com/... · Posted by u/benbreen
lazlee commented on Which Writers Will We Remember? biblioracle.substack.com/... · Posted by u/benbreen
I hate to say it ... Stephen King.
lazlee commented on Glykon, was an ancient snake god en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gly... · Posted by u/pyinstallwoes
Alan Moore's deity of choice.
Looks like Best Buy and other retailers still sell a line of Sandisk “Clips” ??
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sandisk-clip-jam-8gb-mp3-player...
Cool. It's been so long since they disappeared in my neck of the woods that I have stopped looking. I'll check this out. Thanks.
The best MP3 (and FLAC) player ever made is the Sansa Clip+ with Rockbox firmware.
$50 when new. Size of a matchbox -- not the car, the small thing that restaurants and bars used to hand out as advertising. MicroSD slot for storage. 20+ hours of playtime, recharged via USB. Appears as a USB Mass Storage device, too. 3.5mm headphone jack. Small 2-part monochrome OLED display. Physical buttons: D-pad, OK, Menu, power, and volume up and down. After a day you don't need to look at it to pause/play, skip a track, change the volume or turn it on and off.
With Rockbox installed (ten minute process), you can play FLAC, use a parametric equalizer, customize the display, change playback speed for audiobooks, and generally do a few dozen things more than the factory firmware.
Rockbox lets you do the same on a large number of devices, but the Clip+ is the best.
I second that. I'm a commercial painter and more then once I've had my sansa mp3 player fall into a paint bucket. Fish it out, clean it up and the damn things just kept on working. Instant brand loyalty after that. Shame they stopped making them.