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Get bones, roast them

April 18, 2025

Okay, yes, there’s a whole chemical thing that happens when you roast the bones before throwing them into your stock pot. Start at 425º, 30m, check after...

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Stock text

April 16, 2025

Somehow, we have not discussed stock. Probably it’s too simple to write up in text. But also nobody seems to do it, and I’m going to teach stock to my...

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Happy Black Friday

April 14, 2025

We will continue to discuss the ongoing apocalypse, and then we’ll get back to brighter text, promise. One of my close people took one look at the sales...

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Make it work

April 10, 2025

After a few months of retrenchment & deep stillness, I began a new offering for my close people this past week that centers around dialogue, which is not...

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Adapting

April 8, 2025

I was chatting with my therapist recently about the ongoing apocalypse, and what all I’ve done in response to it. This has not been much, strictly speaking,...

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Fits as process

April 4, 2025

Blackbird Spyplane once coined the term state of shopping to refer to someone who is more obsessed with browsing & buying than actually living in the things...

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Sometimes you regret grinding in the first place

April 2, 2025

In some earlier text, I told you about co-fermented coffee. The short description is this: one way to remove the coffee cherries to get to the beans is by...

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Formal but not

March 31, 2025

Everyone needs a suit because weddings, funerals, New Year’s Eve, and jury duty exist. Usually you get something charcoal or blue, leave it in your closet...

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You cannot hide the crackers. They will find the crackers.

March 27, 2025

“Oh, hey, deer,” you say, casually, noting two deer. Less than a second later, you look to your left and see a deer standing in the middle of a four-lane...

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The world’s only packable daypack

March 25, 2025

Correction: In this text, I referred to someone as “a friend of a friend.” They have notified me that they are, in fact, a friend, one that is both actual &...

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Ink stick text

March 21, 2025

Working with sumi ink, you need three things: the ink, a brush, and an ink tray. The ink comes in hard stick form; you grind it into the tray with a little...

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One goodbye v. another

March 19, 2025

There has not been enough text about the store goodbye, anywhere. In France, you’re supposed to say goodbye when you walk out of a store. The owner expects...

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Gen text

March 17, 2025

You place a phone call across an ocean at noon JST/9p CST precisely a week in advance, and after five busy signals someone with good English picks up. You...

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One case

Premium post · March 13, 2025

A friend of a friend has a habit of saying the word psychopath a lot. You describe something that someone does that feels a little confusing or off-brand,...

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WTF

March 11, 2025

On my business’s mailing list, I talked a little about the new CEO of a fancy design consultancy who walked around with two notebooks. One was a plain black...

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Malibu Stacy has a monochromatic hat

Premium post · February 20, 2025

I have spoken, frequently, of the stupid ding dang camera, the thing that instantly becomes part of your personal brand once you buy it. On the one hand,...

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Japan & batteries: the two genders

February 17, 2025

PSA: We don’t really have text if I’m not living. And while winter in Chicago is a great time to hunker down & do bigger projects, it’s not so great for the...

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We pray for good weather

Premium post · February 13, 2025

One of the less-discussed things about me is that I am good at refreshing for tickets. I have a wireline fiber connection, I am fast at computers, I keep a...

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How to buy paint online

February 11, 2025

You bought a hole and created, then deleted, another hole, and now you must paint over the deleted hole in order to make it look like the rest of its wall....

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Sometimes you have a busy enough week that you list good objects and call it text

Premium post · February 7, 2025

Spiritually related to our text from the other day, here’s a brief list of some things that I’ve used a lot and have, despite this, lasted in a way that...

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