Month: January 2024
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you can never step in the same blog twice
I think I’ve known this for a while, and I dare say it’s been obvious to many others for even longer, but I finally hit on a concise formulation of it, and wanted to get it down for my own benefit as much as for any other reason: The reason it’s hard to (re)start and…
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tools for fools
Chased out of my own home today, like yesterday, but the sound of heavy powertools being applied to the apartment upstairs. 7:30am they started this morning, for fuck’s sake… who’s together by then? You can still taste the toothpaste. Those sorts of sounds always provoke in me a desire to cause harm to people and…
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beware and abjure, now and always, ideologies constructed around settlement
Quoting “for truth”, as we used to say—or, perhaps more truthfully, quoting for the almost adrenal relief of reading someone else say something you’ve been thinking/feeling for ages. Jake Casella Brookins takes an end-of-year turn on the mic at Ancillary Review, and it’s quite the blazer: Amidst much larger (and fatuous) claims about the moral…