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my writing practiceu receiving another one of these emails me sending another one of these emailsgetting through August without a crashout is always a victory for me (Labor Day is the true test, but it’s now been many years since the multiple years in a row i made Deborah go to urgent care with me on Labor Day weekend because i thought i was dying)idk for me it’s probably May, June, April, September, October, July, December, November, March, January, August, February (yes as a November Scorpio that is the position where i am ranking November not taking questions)i happily consume so may Scorpio memes but sometimes i feel called to comment on themfound poem by Tom Snarskycommunity is importantlatergram of watching idgie, the dog with the biggest ears in oregonincredible mortadella sandwich from No Saint mentioned in previous issueClairo has a sacred position in our house and i know this is an unfair double standard that i don’t apply to, say, my favorite rappers, but i was surprised how bummed out it made me that she bought an $8000 bottle of wine at dinner!i enjoy the fake war between two of my favorite restaurants in Portlandone of many great footnotes from Nebraska by Monica Datta. a book with Oulipo and Valentina on the same page is after my own heartif you get this niche reference extra pointsthe new trend for the fall is sluggo maxxinghow it should be in every magazine and newspaper and everywhere (from New York)miso expressing the family position re: israelmy activism knows no boundsdisagreement i got into with Deborahstart of another disagreement i got into with Deborah (about whether the category of “gummy” contains fruit snacks or is adjacent to it)i am fully a Big Cider trutherwe thought these had been discontinued and were devastated but the store was just out of them the last time. simply the most innovative chip in years, a masterpiece of flavor capture. we always buy two bags.these have a good finish that really does convey a deli sandwich, but have an unforgivable off first impression that ruins them (still eating them tho)the Oreo paradoxtrash!!!the word “spurtle” makes me laugh every time i see iti’m in awe of Deborah’s cooking always but, as i’m someone who has badly cooked salmon a lot in the past, i’m always impressed she has perfected it in the context of this gochujang salmon recipethe parenthetical just made me laugh so hardVirginia Wolf is my favorite Omegaverse authorimagine Sisyphus happy Lacan prompting ChatGPT (i finished the Emily Eakin book and i need to have a separate issue that’s just “crazy shit Lacan did/said”)thank you Ryan Broderick i am so tired of the “dopamine hit” clichéMina Loy, from “The Last Lunar Baedeker” / what my consciousness feels likethis is a blogger i follow for engineering news and while i would not call him an artist, i liked the sentiment and shared it with Deborah when she was stressing over her first newsletter (i think it was helpful)me when i make art/”art” me when i don’t make art/”art”me about some of my favorite internet writers (complementary)from Deborah Eisenberg’s review of the work of Wolfgang Koeppenfrom a review of Jorie Graham by Anahid NersessianMunira El Najarsupport Farah’s familyfrom I Love Boostersus after a long walk south to see Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasmaafter the movie, ec told us about its intertextual relationship with Sleepaway Camp, which i had never heard of and is wild it existsstill watching my favorite showand my favorite reality franchise, which i want to write about but i just have tooooooooo muchhhhhh tooooo sayyyyyyyyyybut i mean do they have PUPPET THERAPY on real housewives??or sex therapy involving light S&M in a dungeon????we watched the last episode of Hacks last night and it was so beautiful and i am bereft that it’s over. the narrative turn they pull off in the final moments of the episode was incredibly moving and the way that the series ends with non-diegetic laughter was a final masterstrokethis pitch worked on me also. other books i screenshotted this month to look into later: The Ego Trip by Kimon De Greef, Air by Christian Kracht, I Want You To Be Happy by Jem Calder, Seek Immediate Shelter by Vincent Yu, Futuromania by Simon Reynolds, Life of M by Rachel Cusk, The Most by Jessica Anthony, Dooneen by Keith Ridgway, Queen Mab by Emily McBride, Fire in The Belly by Cynthia Carr, Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth, The Disappearers by Marlon James, The Amplified Come As You Are by Michael Azerrad, Triage by Claudia Rankine, Time to Burn by Ellery Lloyd, Make Strange by Niamh Campbell (thanks, Pierce!), Agnes Lives! by Hallie Elizabeth NewtonBut “keeping up with my diary writing,” he wrote, made him “at least feel like I am someone—not too big—but someone in my own way” (from the latest Rachel Aviv)looking out the back door at duskfrom Hilton Als on Peter Hujar and photography as “search.” here’s the full part i wanted to quote, which continues into the next column: “If we can’t bear witness to ourselves, what allows the camera to dance in and draw us out? I think it begins with the implicit understanding that photographer and sitter are making a story together, with the sitter as protagonist, and sometimes the combined reality and artificiality of the exchange brings certain truths to the surface”she was trying to mansplain lighting in photography to me and why this photo wouldn’t work as i took this amazing photo of herthe artist and her museMira GonzalezSaturday night it was cool enough for the first time in a long time that we could do karaoke in the atticthanks for sharing my month with me <3
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