stories (august 2026)
[this post will probably be truncated by your email client: view it on the web] my writing practice u receiving another one of these emails me sending...
weekend recs (aug 28, 2026)
Deborah’s newsletter this week includes, among many other delights—crayon drawings of summer fruit, her favorite paleta recipe book, and extended journal...
lawnmower man pt. 2
the house where we live now, and where we've lived for the seven years since we moved to Portland, is the first house where i've really had to care about the...
life of m(editation)
Rachel Cusk’s new novel, Life of M, is out now. i will probably read it, ideally sooner than later since i missed out on the discourse windows for the other...
algo diary: tiktok, 8/25/26
young black woman eating a burrito while casually destroying the talking points of a white conservative woman on the street ad for a bulk mystery box of...
rejection
in her most recent newsletter, Deborah wrote about becoming an art ho and about being an artist who is married to an artist, which in practice means being a...
weekend recs (aug 21, 2026)
teenage sex and death at camp miasma is only in limited release but if it's in limited released near you, it's the most fun you'll have watching a movie this...
getting high on my own supply - 23. hillssongs pt.2
In the time between the previous chapter’s recording and this one, I moved to Korea to teach English. I flew out of Orlando, where my dad was living alone...
thootie frutti (ice spice x katseye mashup)
one of the reasons i impulsively left my job is wanting to finish this passion project i’ve been building on and off since last fall, which is a video...
standup
i read Belle Burden’s Strangers, a memoir of a rich woman whose husband suddenly and surprisingly leaves her and their children at the beginning of the...
write a diary for your algorithm
when i was a kid, my dream was to be a member of a Nielsen family. Nielsen families were American families who kept diaries of what TV shows they watched,...
unsubscribe
one of the weird paradoxes of sending newsletters is that not sending newsletters for a long time will not really affect your subscriber base, but if and...
sunshine music
three songs that will brighten your day whatever the weather (but i hope it's sunny). “will you promise” - ebo taylor the core horn break of this is pure joy...
the most fun i've had reading a novel in a long time
was reading my friend claire carusillo’s the responsible party, which is out tomorrow! it is a madcap epic of shipwrecks and scammers, of jacuzzis and...
trojan shore
in Christopher Nolan's version of the Odyssey, Matt Damon lands on a remote isle where, intoxicated by the lotus flowers that Charlize Theron feeds him, he...
stories (july 2026)
i need to start writing again but everything i start i stop and so i’m gonna try something different to break the seal. i got off instagram for most of july...
february (deborah)
i wept at the end of wuthering heights. we sang karaoke on valentine’s day with the new speakers and mic that j got us for the studio we aren’t working...
knitting (deborah)
For years I said I wish I knew how to knit, but it seems too hard. Whenever I looked at a knitting pattern, it seemed pretty insane, garbled gibberish,...
early to bed, but not early to rise, lol (deborah)
These days I must admit a certain glee to get into bed. Like, I am done for the night! Brain is off. There’s no more to be done. I gather my things (a stack...
5: tales from da clink (deborah)
day 5 ⛓️ TALES FROM DA CLINK ⛓️when we go out of town, miso stays at a dog boarding place which j says she refers to as “da clink” 😂 she is not known for...