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Recent
- Auditory Madeleines: part whateverI’m becoming convinced there are certain songs I need to relegate to a certain period in my life. Or–only listen to them when I want to recall a certain period. I have heard The Eagles multiple times since childhood and the reaction I had in Okawachiyama was exceptionally strong given the contrast between rural Kyushu… Read more: Auditory Madeleines: part whatever
- Time isn’t after us.Just like that bluebird Ten years and some change ago I was waking up to text messages from my mom and my best friend asking if I “was okay”, which was A Way to start a morning, to be sure. I do not have the texts saved but I can guess with some degree of… Read more: Time isn’t after us.
- Possesses powerChristmas at the childhood home, which means a lot of lazing about. I catch that Hobbit-like tendency to generally overindulge, in food and in indolence. This also takes the form of not checking the news to torment myself with goings-on that I cannot do a damn thing about, not today. I am one of those… Read more: Possesses power
- When the “AI assistant” would probably use the exact same phrasing I do I agonize over it overmuch.I have again done that thing where I feel pressed to say something profound and original–read as thoughtful, where effort = care–on a card, and coming around again to the cliche/set phrase from the pre-printed Hallmark. “I wish you happiness in the new year.” This is the distillation of what I feel. And it’s the… Read more: When the “AI assistant” would probably use the exact same phrasing I do I agonize over it overmuch.
- Nothing actually happensAgainst my better judgement I check Reddit in the morning. I assume at the very least it can tell me if the White House blew up or aliens made first contact* or whatever the fuck major news of the day. I’m also frequently on the elliptical so I’m not looking for something that requires great… Read more: Nothing actually happens
Historia
- Auditory Madeleines: part whatever
- Time isn’t after us.
- Possesses power
- When the “AI assistant” would probably use the exact same phrasing I do I agonize over it overmuch.
- Nothing actually happens
- Retro tech
- Through a lens familiarly
- The shedding of old ways of thinking
- Le Guin was right about everything part 58 of
- “The sky above the port was the color of a television, tuned to a dead channel.”
- Nobody wants to be in the after-school program.
- Queen Bitch
- I pet the electric sheep and felt a surge of well-being when it nuzzled me.
- The unbearable stillness of not-knowing
- bildungsroman