velcro city tourist board
a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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caltrops
The things you can’t control will go to shit.So plan ahead, for caltrops in the roadawait unwary drivers. Baggage stowedas best you can, forget the tarmac, grit—keep watching the horizon, far aheadand still receding, still receding, still.I make no guarantees; perhaps you willsee roadblocks that would tip you on your head,and swerve in time. But…
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manifesto
Let’s make this clear: I do not want to die.I don’t—I want to live, and live againlike I remember living as a childin stories that I tell myself aboutmyself. To live that childlike life again—not like the lonely dead, reducedto mewling hunger past the fence of life—I must then be reborn, and shoulder offthis chrysalis…