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March 14, 2024

It all starts out innocently. You meet me at a party, or a dinner, or a yoga studio, or you’re posted up next to me at a café. We hit it off. You get my...

Cup as teacher, cup as intent

March 12, 2024

Text is supposed to be a durable canon of wonder, or so the page says. One of the things I’ve strenuously tried to follow is no dunks, because on the...

Earth’s only iPhone case

March 7, 2024

“What are you up to after this?” “Getting a new iPhone case.” “That’s a big moment!” “Is it?” “Yes! You hold that thing every single day, and most people you...

Build a wall of shaving cream that blots out the sun

March 6, 2024

One phrase that now lives in my head rent-free is “state of shopping,” courtesy of Blackbird Spyplane, our nation’s paper of record. They write mostly about...

Soup & Dread

February 29, 2024

I’m doing Soup & Bread next week. Soup & Bread is a monthly winter-to-spring thing at legendary (and sometimes deeply flawed) cultural institution the...

No gods but sourcing

February 27, 2024

Enough of you liked Zingerman’s text that I will continue to write about them. There is, as mentioned, a lot of ground to cover, including some stuff I omitted.

An object for the whiskey man

February 22, 2024

The dim realization of its price unfolds in slow motion, as if you wonder: is that a currency conversion thing? You recall, once, how in Mexico City you went...

The one thing you need

February 19, 2024

In my own spiritual journey, I have come to believe very few things as true axioms of existence. Most of them are very boring, obvious, Buddhist-of-center...

Detroit/Kingsley

February 16, 2024

Zingerman’s is a Jewish deli in Ann Arbor that is 45 days younger than me, but to call Zingerman’s a “Jewish deli” is like calling the Louvre an “art...

What does it mean for a system to be nourishing?

February 9, 2024

I’m halfway through Christopher Alexander’s brief essay about architecture The Nature of Order, and many ideas have been coming through as I’ve read it. In...

I spent my birthday in the normal fashion

February 7, 2024

You can’t go to most onsen in Japan if you have tattoos, and I have a lot of those, so the one time I wanted anything approaching an onsen experience I found...

Me season

February 1, 2024

Today is my birthday, which thank you, that’s very kind, please sit down, we have a lot to get through today, oh my god, please. Please. Okay. I need to tell...

J1B-GT, one month

January 30, 2024

I have written text already on the jacket, but I did not own one, which made the whole affair look a little like one watched a beautiful conversation in a...

Pitched fork

January 29, 2024

They weren’t relevant until they were. They were controversial until they weren’t. They were savage until they became anodyne. They were underground until...

Notes on matched sets

January 25, 2024

You never see anyone wearing both at once, do you? And yet there they are, shirt & pants, cut from the same fabric. Theoretically this is what a suit is, but...

Three things at Draft

January 23, 2024

I’m posting this here because the main mailing list would get too loud & incoherent, too full of yes people, and my intuition would get drowned out, which we...

Another text grab bag

January 16, 2024

You will never know if your USB-C connection “works,” by any definition of works. You will never know if it is transferring the maximum amount of data, or...

Bison chili: the latest iteration

January 10, 2024

So we’ve already established that I am lousy at recipes? I basically kitchen-witch the whole thing. The only two good things that I’ve ever done are bison...

Armor, natural enough

January 8, 2024

Welcome back to text, the world’s only remaining newsletter. I hope whatever permutation of holidays you observe went well, and I’m excited to have you here...

Accretion

December 21, 2023

In keeping with holiday tradition, here is 2023’s power ranking of Oblique Strategies cards, as a predecessor to two weeks of deep rest. I am deliberately...