IN WHICH the author seeks to “own the float” on burn cream.
Category: quotes
“You might move toward having a curator.”
IN WHICH the author bangs a drum, again. But not very loudly.
Double F, double-double zero the hex code
IN WHICH the author cops to a love that dare not speak its name, at least if you’re a grown-ass man.
More like a universal coupling
IN WHICH a computational application for large language models is considered, and a conversation with same concerning juvenile justice is roundly derided.
Two angles on resistance
IN WHICH two takes on creative resistance are juxtaposed.
Approach curators
Couple of inputs colliding in interesting ways. How To Build A Blog Without Social Media: So here’s my 2023 experiment. Building LTD up in a sustained way without doing the thing everyone’s been doing since the 2010s – leaning on social media as the one and only growth tool. Let me point you now to… Continue reading Approach curators
A working definition of expediency
I’ve said in a few places recently that fantasy featuring royals isn’t doing it for me lately. Robin McKinley’s DEERSKIN is an exception. I’m not too far through it yet, and I will admit it took me a few chapters to really get its hooks in — a few pages before this, there’s a bit… Continue reading A working definition of expediency
Subtle syncopations and latencies
… the plan directed the last dreadnought, with its hypertrophied weapons, to open with a power chord against the more discordant forces of the Diamantines’ enemies. The orchestration manuals of the day called for a ratio of a single dreadnought to one hundred battle cruisers or equivalent. The percussion line alone should have demolished the… Continue reading Subtle syncopations and latencies
The journalists, the nihilists, and the chaotic neutrals
The amount that Twitter omits is breathtaking. More than any other social platform, it is indifferent to huge swaths of human experience and endeavor. I invite you to imagine this omitted content as a vast, bustling city. Scratching at your timeline, you are huddled in a single small tavern with the journalists, the nihilists, and… Continue reading The journalists, the nihilists, and the chaotic neutrals
The Marriage at Cana (?)
[U is 11.] U: *squints at my sweet Locked Tomb enamel pin* U: what does “one fish, one end” mean? Currently reading: THE INHERITANCE OF ORQUÍDEA DIVINA, Zoraida Córdova