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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Welcome to the Atrocity Exhibition” The Warfield San Francisco, CA

Peter Hook playing a bass guitar. He is performing as the leader of Peter Hook & the Light.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Negativland Internet Archive San Francisco, CA

The two members of Negativland performing music against a red-orange background.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Tear Garden The Independent San Francisco, CA

Guitar player, Erik Drost, in front of an overlayed projection of grey and purple circles.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Elisabeth de Waal also wrote several novels. Persephone Books published The Exiles Return.

Cover of the Persephone Books edition of The Exiles Return by Elisabeth de Waal.

It is in the Persephone house style of solid light grey with the name of the book and author in a white offset.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Altın Gün Regency Ballroom San Francisco, CA

Five members of a psych-rock band against a yellow-orange background.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The end of summer San Francisco, CA

A clear blue sky above downtown San Francisco. The East Bay Hills and a sliver of San Francisco Bay are visible beyond the city.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Anchor Brewing Company San Francisco, CA

Mural on the wall of the Anchor Brewing Company. It depicts some stalks of barley and their leaves. Underneath is the word Barley.

It is one of a set of murals each depicting a different ingredient used in brewing beer.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

She takes him to the car, lets go of his arm, gets into the driver's seat and waits while he walks round the front of the car and gets in beside her. Then she drives off with him at her side. - Muriel Spark, The Driver’s Seat

Cover of the Penguin Archive edition of The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark.
It is a solid off-white with the following words in red:

Penguin Archive
Muriel Spark
The Driver’s Seat
A Penguin since 1961

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Black Marble Rickshaw Stop San Francisco, CA

Guitar player and keyboard player from the band Black Marble on stage in front of an abstract projection of red lines against a violet background.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Magda Szabó - The Door Tr: Len Rix

Cover of the NYRB edition of The Door, written by Magda Szabó and translated by Len Rix.

It features an Eva Hesse piece titled Accession. The piece is offwhite with three lines joining in a single point. They are drawn as if showing the corner of a room.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I told stories, and if I didn't know more, I made things up, and nonetheless, I waited for her to return. I was afraid she would abandon us there, alone on this path with night everywhere. - Inès Cagnati, Crazy Genie

Cover of the NYEB edition of Crazy Genie, written by inès Cagnati and translated by Liesl Schillinger.

It features a detail of a painting, Farm at Watendlath, by Dora . Carrington. The painting shows a woman and a girl, both dressed in white, standing in front of a farmhouse. There are hills in the background.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Summer (rolling in) San Francisco, CA

At the end of a street with a few parked cars are two large trees shadowed by a massive white fog bank rolling over the top of Twin Peaks. Barely visible above it is the top of Sutro Tower. High above the fog is a blue sky.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Something's flowing out here, what is it?, before it was ink that came out of my spear, now I type and type and type, endless sentences, endless pages, endless bits and bytes, endless, you can't see why, but: here it is!, so now I can't stop it! Help! - Elfriede Jelinek, Rein Gold Tr: Honegger

Cover of the Fitzcarraldo edition of Tein Hold, written by Elfriede Jelinek and translated by Gitta Honegger.

The cover is completely white other than the following words printed in black ink:

Rein
Gold

Elfriede Jelinek

Fitzcarraldo Editions

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Someone had to use the big words, I whispered to myself. They had gone out of fashion, I realised as I came across them unexpectedly and started listening to people's vocabulary in a new way, taking their language literally and searching for the message in it. -Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn

Cover of the Verso edition of Long Kive the Post Horn, written by Vigdis Hjorth and translated by Charlotte Barslund.

It features a photograph titled The Receptionist by Anna Niemi. The photo is of a wall with two photographs; one of an office building; the other of a woman staring at the camera. In front of the wall is a filing cabinet with a telephone on top. The white-gloved hand and the arm of the women can be seen reaching for the phone.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Union Square / Market St Station San Francisco, CA

Interior concourse of the Union Square / Market St SFMuni station. It is all concrete apart from a light show in the many LED lights hanging in a regular pattern from the ceiling. Every few seconds they change color. In this image they are all bright blue or pale blue.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Chinatown Rose-Pak Station San Francisco, CA

Mural with laser-cut metal images imitating the style of traditional Chinese paper cuts. The images are of people dancing. The mural was created by Yumei Hu.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I Am An American Mural (detail) Chinatown San Francisco, CA

Mural celebrating the successful birthright citizenship case which Wong Kim Ark took to the Supreme Court and won in 1898. The mural features his face and the words I Am An American. The background is the sea with a steamship.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Areas that are at least 20% American <= NYT going all-in on the real “American” stuff.

Map indicating where descendants of long-ago English, Welsh, and Scots-Irish immigrants form at least 20% of the population.

The headline is “Areas that are at least 20% American.”

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Industries of California (detail) - Ralph Stackpole

Industries of California
Ralph Stackpole
Coit Tower, San Francisco, CA

Stackpole shows the major industries in the Bay Area - oil, steel, sugar and canning. Industries of California complements Maxine Albro's mural of agriculture on the opposite side of the tower.
Production of oil and sugar still continue today, while steel manufacturing and canning have disappeared. On the apposite side of the tower, Maxine Albro illustrated the picking of fruit, and Stackpole follows the fruit to the cannery for processing. He shows the science involved with scenes of a chemist in a laboratory pouring a liquid into a glass relort and others in the factory taking scientific measurements by beam balance scale and graduated glass cylinder.
Workers and production dominate the scenes, but bosses wearing suits watch over them.
Collaboration and cooperation is crucial to the flow of industrial enterprise. A mechanized conveyor fills sacks that have the National Recovery Administration (NRA) Blue Eagle printed on them. When Stackpole painted these scenes, millions were unemployed, but all the activity reflects the optimism of the New Deal.
These industries would thrive again and people would have money to buy products and pay taxes needed to support the expanded governmental role in the public sector.

In this detail are three men working. One is weighing something in a balance scale. Another is holding a tall thin tube of liquid. The third is writing in a notepad.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Things got out of hand North Beach San Francisco, CA

A pile of books

René Dumal - Pataphysical Essays
Fleur Jaeggy - Proleterka
Magda Szabó - The Door
Vigdis Hroth - Long Live the Post Horn!
W.G.Sebald - On the Natural History of Destruction
Anne Garreta - In Concrete
Thomas Bernhardt - Correction
Christa Wolf - Eulogy for the Living
Jon Fosse - Melancholy I and II

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Bronze statue Etruscans exhibit Legion of Honor San Francisco, CA

A very thin, elongated statue of a man. It is covered in a greenish tarnish. It is Etruscan and dated to the early 3rd century BCE.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

People said you couldn't go back. More than that, it seemed to him, you couldn't stay. He wondered if he had been trying to stay in a place that was no longer there. The suspicion of its absence made him question if it ever had been there. - William McIlvaney, The Big Man