Observations on Minneapolis, one month in
1) Everyone is indeed very nice. People are willing to engage in small talk for quite a while, and with enthusiasm. They smile at strangers and do little...
I'm moving
Hello! A brief update about a big change in my life: I’m moving to Minneapolis in two weeks! Much to my delight, I was accepted a few months ago into the...
What I read in 2022, and what I'll read in 2023
Another year full of books New Year’s resolutions are more than anything else a yardstick for measuring how much your life can change in a year. I try to...
GET UP, COWARD!
On art vs. decay Hi. In case you haven’t heard the news, My Chemical Romance is back. Technically they’ve been back since 2019, when they announced their...
On the 2022 Tumblr resurgence
Long live this terrible website I’ve been pondering the wave of Tumblr nostalgia that’s sweeping the internet right now. Since the beginning of the pandemic,...
What I've learned from NaNoWriMo
AKA why willpower isn’t as important as desire This year, for the first time as an adult, I am participating in National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo....
Is writing essential?
And should we care if it isn’t? “The pointlessness of art is not an argument against it.” Charles Baxter, The Art of Subtext Before the pandemic, I worked as...
What SOPHIE Meant
If you’ve seen SOPHIE perform live, you know what it’s like: You’re surrounded by a crush of people, many of whom are wearing some of the most outrageous...
Wiggler Check #001
Hope you’re all having a cool and normal Saturday. Here is the first installment of a new post series I’ll be doing (hopefully) every two weeks—a roundup of...
And the penultimate blogging begins
This is the first time I’ve used a non-Tumblr platform for a personal blog since about 2010. My first blog, now many years defunct, was on Blogspot; I mainly...