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The non-secret punk operation

February 3, 2023

I found a good clothing brand the other day, and like all good clothing brands, it’s literally one person doing everything. It’s called Never Cursed, and I...

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The secret punk operation

February 1, 2023

Fat Tire is not a good beer. I’m sorry if you think it’s a good beer. I’m sorry if your first taste of American craft beer was Fat Tire, and I’m sorry if it...

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The parrot

January 30, 2023

Before I was born, my parents had the great idea to get me a parrot, and so they did.

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What your brand of bag tells me

January 27, 2023

The bag is a signifier. The bag teaches others how to see you. On trip, your bag is more for others than for you. Here, in brief, is what your bag says about...

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The possibility space

January 25, 2023

You need a few stories before I get to the main story, so we’re going to hop around a bit. This story is about coffee, but really it’s about opinions.

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Rusted ding

January 23, 2023

It doesn’t look as durable as it is at first glance. Wafer thin, white, hollow thunk if you flick it, blue or red rim as a treat. Enamelware will stack into...

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Carbonated pickle brine

January 19, 2023

Geuze is what happens when you let perfectly innocent beer go bad creatively. It’s a wild beer, made in one region of northwest Belgium where the free-...

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A full list of the durable objects I bought while on the ground here in Marseille, so far

January 17, 2023

There is never enough in the space. This is, I think, how they want it. You must buy, schlep, and leave behind. Two wastebaskets I throw stuff away next to...

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Notes on images

January 12, 2023

Since I’m out more, I’m also taking more photos. The camera sat dormant for a minute. The skies were gray, I didn’t go out, I worked too much, I didn’t post...

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Grinding at work

January 10, 2023

Grinding is an unsolved problem. The goal is to take some oblong-shaped beans and turn them into something that looks consistently like sand, if you’re doing...

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Lessons from deep rest

January 5, 2023

I took two weeks off because it was the holidays, because I was really tremendously tired, because I did 70% of my business’s annual sales in the final three...

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Define an area as “safe” and use it as an anchor

December 22, 2022

Growing up, my father had a little black box on his bookshelf that had OBLIQUE STRATEGIES in gold lettering on the side. Inside was a deck of around 100...

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Rewriting the rules

December 20, 2022

In 2019, a couple of incidents happened in my local community that prompted me to devise a slapdash code of conduct with several friends. This would come to...

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Take notes

December 16, 2022

I am absentminded and hang out with lots of different people, and I think through writing. So I do a thing that everybody thinks is weird & unusual, but...

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Blue tote parrot

December 14, 2022

I’m sitting next to a blue canvas tote. I’m going to try and describe it now.

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Chaos

December 12, 2022

In the absence of justice, in the absence of a team you’re rooting for, there is only chaos. There is the chaos of an underdog ruining everything, the chaos...

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The primarying Eschaton

December 9, 2022

Okay. In 2005, which was still a very post-9/11 world, Congress passed an act that told all of the states to ask for more verification before issuing their...

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You can have a little collectivism, as a treat

December 6, 2022

A couple of weeks before I started writing text, I was in Lisbon at a natural wine bar. I’d show up alone with my journal, find myself in the middle of...

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More assorted questions I’ve had lately

December 2, 2022

Why can’t I figure out the battery capacity of my AirPods Pro? Batteries degrade over time, and for other Apple devices like your laptop or phone, you can...

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No gods but moderation

November 30, 2022

A few years ago, I called something “crazy” in a Slack room and was very rapidly pinged, in private, by a moderator, that calling things crazy was ableist...

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