Category Archives: cool stuff
Cormac McCarthy on language and the subconscious
Monday, July 8, 2024
The Kekulé Problem: where did language come from? Language can be used to sum up some point at which one has arrived—a sort of milepost—so as to gain a fresh starting point. But if you believe that you actually use language in the solving of problems I wish that you would write to me and […]
a Grammy would be nice, though
Friday, November 10, 2023
Are We Finally Ready to See Neutral Milk Hotel for What It Really Was? Many of that period’s acclaimed songwriters professed to be allergic to the concept of fame. Mangum just meant it.
Joe Matt
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
a letter from joe matt Here’s where’s I’m compelled to impart what I consider an important life lesson– If you’re lost, career-wise, and haven’t a clue what to do wit your life–I think it’s crucial to metaphorically “sit perfectly still and do absolutely nothing” for as long as possible. Jobs, friends–just about anything could be […]
Interviewing yourself
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Aiden Truhen and Nick Harkaway discuss the morality of fiction, the descent of the world, and the Addams Family” AT: Except that we have different writing styles and different ways of being in the world and I’m massively antisocial and live in a houseboat on a middle-European river and you live in London and you’re […]
Brivs Mekis
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Reconstruction of the Fables The story of Brevs Mekis and his doublehouse is just one of the many intriguing tall tales that populate Fables of the Reconstruction. But the thing about tall tales is that they change with each retelling; every time you reconstruct the fables (so to speak), you add new bricks and change […]
Ferlinghetti
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Autobiography And I may write my own eponymous epitaph instructing the horsemen to pass.
existence
Thursday, May 28, 2020
i have a backlog of single link draft posts that i haven’t gotten around to fleshing out to a state that is publishable by my minimal standards. you would think i was busy. hah. i’m going to go ahead and post this video though because what it describes is very close to my own philosophy, […]
pretty much sums it up
Monday, August 12, 2019
Why I’m A Squishy Leftie This isn’t scary socialism. This is self-protection by protecting the social contract within which we live, and just giving a damn about people. just read Harry August this summer and it was very good.
