: Viewing recs Cyberspace Johnny Mnemonic The Net American West First Cow Meek’s Cutoff Days of Heaven Train Dreams …

: Who I'm listening to Miles Davis (preference for electric) Pharoah Saunders Shabaka Wendy Eisenberg Flea Black String …

: Loud clattering of can By co-living sub-tenant

: Sarah Hurwitz has a Zen “don’t know” before-thinking enlightenment moment on a hitbodedut retreat. I …

: Tu B'shvat Having made the journey from the front yard to the back, beneath the weight of the second story …

: Guy outside Ritual Coffee on 5/27/24, I had a hot chocolate inside The guy in combat boots with adorned with a skull. He’s reading Love In the Time of Cholera, …

: Seung Sahn's Dropping Ashes on the Buddha, and chat with Seraph and Marshall Good morning A man came into the Zen center and dropped ashes on the Buddha. One hundred and fifty …

: The kind of extro, outside RItual coffee on Valencia Being around people Benching just outside the coffee shop Heads pointing down Talking Tap clink …

: Machinery: Eva Hesse, her machinery

: From Amy Kurzweil at The Ruby in San Francisco on February 29th, 2024 The room was cold. The light a little caustic. Acoustics wan. From the back row I had to squirm to …

: Two drinks max or else The bartender at Berreta is asking if I like bitterness and I answer yes. At this point I’m open to …

: Sunday Prayer before heading to altitude Saying no to Lucy Ives everywhere and hitchhiking Leather Blvd. sipping cool aid Kita anak-anak …

: Hangry Can you eat here Can you get food here I can get food here I will get food here This place is too …

: Relationships in this economy “I didn’t realize what we had.” He couldn’t see from the view, from within his stomach. His nerves …

: Kelsey Blackwell's Race and the Body: Why Somatic Practices Are Essential for Racial Justice “Racism is a visceral experience” - Coates && “Including the body…towards social justice…is the …

: Class warfare on Duolingo 🌹

: Goings on about town: Iowa teen grew 7,000 pounds of veggies, then gave them all away Over morning coffee, mixed with used iron goddess king tea leaves. Questions about things in paper. …

: Modern cities are inhuman: Vol 1 A post shared by Samantha Sophia (@raisingself)

: Le Guin on write what you know

: I slept pretty well last night

: From the hunter to the tactical tornado. Man and his-story!

: Book review: Event Factory I’m not sure how far Gladman’s fantastic Ravickian worlding has spread beyond cottage literary, …

: Book review: The Hospital Ship Bax evades a typically satisfying narrative arc for recondite reprints of medical texts and war-time …

: Collected turns of phrase, totally incomplete “wish embroidering” - Eugene Lim, Dear Cyborgs “the air quicken before rain” - Robert Glück, Margery …

: I watched Eastern Promises last night and this morning And Donnie Brasco And The Departed Before

: My soft animal body in the family of things Passing along this Mary Oliver poem shared by Nate Mullen last week at the Metaspore Symposium in …

: City Pop (Vibes) Immaculate Delusions It’s a bizarre aesthetic and rhetorical leap from Richard Mayhew’s Delusions to the similar strong …

: Jazz Vol. 1

: What other optimisms lie in wait on the Enterprise NCC-1701-D?

: Excerpt from Decision Making in Brainless Organisms by Raechel Anne Jolie from collection Make the …

: Just discovered Sun Ra’s recording at Haverford College, 1980. The story of this record is bonkers. …

: Abolish The Family by Sophie Lewis But uh oh those summer nights. Right on the heels of a transformative family weekend! When Theo …

: Bringing back sweet memories. Atmospheric pressure. La lluvia frames colored paint. The real miracle …

: TERFism studies: Naziism for Transmisogynist Feminists I’m still processing far too much from Week 1. Feminists Against Women: the Politics of …

: Summer lewks leaked. Sunscreen is a conspiracy, cover up with a shirt or heavy layer of clay. I want …

: With each new day it doesn’t rain I lose hope about the future of our species. I have a good …

: Reading my streaming fancies with Le Guin's Carrier Bag of Fiction Why do I have such a big attraction to teen fictions (like _Never Have I Ever_)? For a while I've …

: The awkwardness of downloading concurrent, asynchronous academic threads around 2003/4 Halfway through _Companions in Conversation_ and I'm having this memory of being in college -- …

: White theft/entrepreneurship I’ve been reading two texts this week. Side-by-side they offer another reveal of the tragic double …