"Words are like, what... nothing. Complicated air flow." I wanted to do a whole bit about this but turns out Nerdwriter has me covered. Seven-odd minutes of coercion, equivocation, nothing words, awkward pauses, emotional dyslexia, and bringing things up just to have them squashed. See how poor fuck Greg just can't tell context from content … Continue reading Nobody gets how people talk like HBO’s Succession
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Streaming has changed everything, again
The Guardian with the State of the Nation re the many ways the '10s have forever changed our media consumption habits: [...] something else has become apparent in the fallout over Netflix’s desecration of the theatrical experience. People are watching The Irishman and Marriage Story – millions of people, in fact, with many of them … Continue reading Streaming has changed everything, again
The rotting God universe
Towards an entropic, Souls-like dark fantasy of grey vistas decomposing into black hole swirls: Something that would go like: Pressure clocks pinging on our wrists and weapons at the ready, we wander around the insides of massive space whale carcasses dodging the other gas-masked inhumans scavenging for the last dying embers. (Compare the charnel ground.) … Continue reading The rotting God universe
NatGeo-Gothic
From Gregory Marks: NatGeo explaining polar wander, thought to be accountable for the aridification of NE China ca. the Jurassic Era: Are we beholden to inorganic (te)cthonic deities?
Social media is meant to scale down
From BBC Future: More and more people are preaching the gospel of small being better when it comes to online social life. Scale may be one of the issues with the massive social networking sites that now dominate our lives. And for certain Facebook users, the smaller and more secret the groups, the better. I … Continue reading Social media is meant to scale down
The Zone after the rain
Nice bit of juxtaposition in my Saturday morning reading: it’s hard not to feel the Zone as a simulacrum for the internet itself in these late days of humanity: an increasingly cursed realm through which we willingly stalk, despite our certain knowledge of its very unreality. We know that, say, our Facebook friends are not … Continue reading The Zone after the rain
BLDGBLOG interviews on authors v. cities
Today I discovered the esteemed BLDGBLOG has a veritable treasure trove of interviews with acclaimed authors centered around their urban themes and then merrily peregrinating to places like Utopian narrative, allegory vs. metaphor, and the things that mushrooms eat. (You know, like a city stroll. You get it.) Mentions of Calvino and Ballard and psychogeography … Continue reading BLDGBLOG interviews on authors v. cities
Phantom Timezones
"It’s like a sickness where I just want to prove to everyone I can do it,” he said. “I’m going to show you I can be number one at both. Watch me.” That's the Wall Street Journal on day-jobbers moonlighting as aspiring performers, so it's probably become a thing. These corporate office workers are making … Continue reading Phantom Timezones
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