Category: General
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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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completing a thought
I feel I want to mark the end of the year here, particularly given I have left the blog fallow for a bunch of months, but I feel oddly resistant to doing a traditional end-of-year round-up of any sort. This first manifested as a resistance to doing a year-in-reading post, which I initially suspected was…
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who are you trying to impress? McDonald’s Hopeland and skiffy diasporae
It’s yer man ADH, who else? “Space is dead”, sez he: The moon landing happened because capitalism and American empire actually had a rival. These forces had to prove they could outrace, outplan, and outspend communism and Soviet empire. It was probably the biggest PR campaign of all time, if you don’t count our bloated…
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the lesson of trees
To take a train north from Malmö in mid-October is a little like boarding a time machine, accelerating into the oncoming autumn. At the outset, the deciduous trees are only lightly touched with reds and russets, but with every mile travelled they blaze into orange and yellow, and later the ochres and burnt umbers of…