Rhinelander report #2

[jesse_the_k]

Back from a deliciously lazy time Up North. I swam when the air was cooler than the water. We ate a bunch. I loved Gretchen McCulloch’s BECAUSE INTERNET—full review to come. We watched Deidre and Laney Rob a Train, a caper comedy with serious underpinnings: the eldest daughter -- ready-to-escape small-town Idaho -- has to keep the household together while her mother’s in jail.

Pix cause it happened!

• Leuth 'Plum’bing

In front of small, tattered ranch house, two 15 ft chainsaw sculptures of pipe wrenches, rising from red and blue plum-shaped bases, flank old car with "LUETH 715-499-1019" White pickup and white trailer also show LUETH livery, as well as name and number on variable-light electric sign mounted on house.

• Boulders a plenty

Human height boulder comprises thousands of layers. Stone is soft enough that each layer is tangible.

Comments

[magnetic_pole]

Nice photos! I'll be looking for your comments on Because Internet--I'm hoping to read it myself eventually.

Welcome back! M.

Thanks

[jesse_the_k]

....I don't know if I can capture all of its wonders. READ IT NOW!

[seascribble]

\up north!/

I'm in the middle of Because Internet--I had to put it down for fiction that came in from the library, but I'm loving it. Do you listen to her podcast too? Lingthusiasm.

Yes

[jesse_the_k]

...Lingthusiasm is delightful. The gateway drug was her excellent blog All Things Linguistic.

I imagine it's common in fannish circles to dream of being a linguist--Gretchen is my proxy linguide. She beats the challenging thorns and undergrowth to drive lovely pearls of knowledge to my ears.

[sasha_feather]

Welcome back!

[jesse_the_k]

<3

Nice to be home.

[isis]

I love that rock!

[jesse_the_k]

Isn't it amazing? Do you have any insights into its structure/history? Water? Wind? Both?

[isis]

It looks like aeolian sandstone, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolian_processes#/media/File:Grant_1929_crossbedding.png which shows cross-bedded sandstone, layers of sand put down by wind and then squished into rock.

[worlds_of_smoke]

that rock is AWESOME.

[jesse_the_k]

I wanted to bring it home but it wouldn't fit in the van.