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"An escape from the erosion of self" A stranger feels compassion for the suffering of another. This other is sensitive, brilliant, desperate, isolated, possibly dangerous, profoundly loved, and terribly, terribly trapped. A kindred...
Project Runway 22 gaslit us into thinking there hadn't already been an unconventional materials challenge, and thought we'd want to see season 21 designers back again. But! The result was an incredible runway show.
I've been prolific of late and so I think instead of writing another longish one tonight I'm going to take a look at where the work has been going, lately, and whether I think it's worth going deeper. That said, you should know that it...
Meta image credit by Negative Space on Pexels Lately on Threads (yes, I know) there has been this talk of people dropping this sort of advice for ADHD: write. Write everything down. Ideas, lists, to-dos, dates and such. Because if you...
Over the last few years, right-wingers have finally started to realize that what they’re missing is empathy. Several decades’ worth of “I didn’t realize how bad this policy was until it hurt someone I know personally!” statements had...
K. H. SCHEER & WALTER ERNSTING – Enterprise Stardust. Perry Rhodan #1, Ace, paperback original;1st printing, 1969. The first of a long German series, in two parts, probably first punished separately. Comments of each follow. Tolerably...
From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 27-29: In 1498 the crew of the ships of Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama became the first people known to sail...
The Intellectual Circle Jerk and Why We Can't Stop https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-intellectual-circle-jerk-and The credentialing cartel. Same top-tier universities, same books, same thinking. If you do not think like them, you do...
Book review for Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. I rated it 4 stars This book kicks off rather abstractly. A man wanders the halls of a huge house with hundreds of rooms. Amongst its many rooms, there are 13 dead bodies - all skeletons - plus...
It's been a while since I allowed myself to just pour freely onto the page. I admit I've noticed myself getting rut-barrelled into the ground again—getting caught up in the formula of writing, standardized. The desire path becoming the...
I just got this bullshit spam. I like AI. I work for an AI company. And I have also been hand-writing the same blog for 28 years and have zero intention of having AI continue it without me. The whole entire point of blogging is for me to...
I began wearing glasses for nearsightedness at age eight or nine – I was the classic kid who couldn’t read the blackboard, back when children were not as routinely tested for vision problems. My vision got continually worse over my...
past. prologue. | 19”x22” mixed media on bristol
Scored a cool new wallet… similar to the one that broke, also met Kelly Curtis who managed Pearl Jam from its formation in 1990 until his retirement in August 2020. I bought a sweatshirt from his shop, and we talked skateboarding for the...
Maria Konnikova ★★★★☆ An interesting read on how con artists operate, and the psychological traits they manipulate in order to trick people into doing what they want. It’s roughly structured around different phases of a con, from picking...