“A basketball game was, and always will be, part playing the game before us and part making sure we have someone to bear witness.” – Mac Crane, ‘A Sharp Endless […]
Friday Links: Do You Know Anything About San Francisco? Edition
“We were wrong, of course, but…when you’re in love and fearing for your life, you accept any scaffolding upon which you can hang your fragile, contingent future.” – Jay Caspian […]
Storytelling In Instrumental Music
“Prometheus was trying / to invent the guitar solo. / Fire was his first draft.” – Amorak Huey, “Seven Stories About Fire” Maybe this is an increasingly impossible experience in […]
Friday Links: Watch Out For Foxes and Robots Edition
“Long ago, someone told me that I really shouldn’t get attached to humans. Nothing good comes of it since they detest our kind and kill us when they can. Yet […]
Re-centering
“A beach house isn’t just real estate. It’s a state of mind.” – Douglas Adams, ‘Mostly Harmless’ Warm weather always helps. Not shivering when I wake up, the ability to […]
Friday Links: I’d Swim In A Sea Of Stories Even If It Was Poisoned Edition
“‘But why do you hate stories so much?’ Haroun blurted, feeing stunned. ‘Stories are fun…’ ‘The world, however, is not for Fun,’ Khattam-Shud replied. ‘The world is for Controlling.’”- Salman […]
On Nonparticipation
“More and more [voters] declared, if only by nonparticipation, their alientation from the political system. In 1960, 63 percent of those eligible to vote voted in the presidential election. By […]
Friday Links: Off Substack Edition
“Then she spotted his missing toe…ripped off her own left shoe…When Jack saw her extra pink toe, he swore he felt his missing one come back into its place.” – […]
Friday Listens: Burgers Or Tacos? Edition
The new Shipwrecked Sailor album is here, have some liner notes
Friday Links: In The Body Of Empire Edition
“you tatter at twilight. Soiled / little prince, what have you done? // What have you done to our field?” – Srikanth Reddy, “Fifth Circle”