"I'm a big dog like Marmaduke" - Danny Brown
"You look like the morning"
I have been so lucky through my life. During a forgiveness meditation, I have nobody to forgive but myself.
I find the aesthetic of the Wicker Man so pleasing; especially the May Day celebration
"Being your own boss" is a deeply Marxist concept. And kind of his whole point. But its been coopted by gig work companies to just mean 'better benefits': flexible hours, hybrid work. You still have a boss, you just don't know his name.
I think seagulls are just as magnificent as puffins. They are just more common so we take them for granted.
Ive consumed a lot of content about the bible -- likely spent more time than it would take to read the bible in the first place. Why dont I read more?
I hoard knowledge and do nothing with it
Clouds congregate
Greying, like an angry sea
The steel rails thunder
Like the sky would if it had the gall
Muddy iron above me
Filthy and cold tile below me
Please let me move
Dark green and brick red are beautiful together -- jess was right.
Id think its hilarious if a friends showed me an insane Tinder profile, but it means nothing to me if it comes from a Tik Tok. The difference:
"This insane person is connected to you in some way, in your community"
"There exists an insane person"
The former is relevant to me, the latter is banal.
Iconoclasm is awesome
Network, Amusing Ourselves to Death, King of Comedy, White Noise
"Its good to be informed" has persisted for hundreds of years, but the the information its good to know has changed drastically.
"Politically correct" is a Soviet term used to enforce Stalinist loyalty in hiring government employees. We shouldn't use that term!
I think I've been convinced about the value of staying friends with exes. It'd be a huge loss to lose friends as easily as we do exes.
The patriot act was worse than 9/11
Modern capitalism feels kike the endgame of what was once a somewhat fair game. Someone found an exploit or solved the game and its no longer fun.
Where did all of the libertarians go?
Its odd seeing freshmen -- their pallad and insecure stares vaguely at the ground. Gravity pulling their heads to a 30 degree tilt. Its odd; I see them as different kinds of people now
As the world becomes more nihilist, people act like everything around them has even more of a purpose than before. We are less willing to shape our environment because "it would probably mess something up," but have less confidence than ever in that something.
I think its really funny to clap when an airplane lands.
"Spinoza believed all things wish to go on being what they are -- stone wishes eternally to be stone, and tiger to be tiger" - Borges
The vast majority of people have never seen the top of a cloud.
Iceland looks like a moldy jam spread on a stone slab.
These pages have been damned by the Ionian sea
The Polish plane tembled in descent. Dubious snow fell into my hand fron the cieling. We landed on just one of the 3 wheels.
This person next to me on the plane downloaded YouTube shorts to watch on the flight.
This guys owns a battery store. He has only double and triple A batteries, lined up on the window display with about a foot's distance between each battery. I dont think he sells any other kinds of batteries.
In Exarchia thinking about my role as a tourist.
Thourism thrives on finding local experience and making them global.
The more local, "authentic", the sooner that charm is gone due to toursim.
Sharing it means its destruction.
Albania's little shops that sell Albanian hats, shirts, flags, and other chachkeys are primarily for the locals.
I hope I never come back to Paros.
Ive never seen someone wear those gorilla shoes, but im not suprised Vegan Bamboo in Athens is the first place I would.
"Cheers to what?"
This man has a bald patch in his beard just like me.
Such beautiful degredation.
Art in impermenence, in temporality itself.
Nobody plans for what their buildings will look like as ruins.
We will have the ugliest ruins.
I'm really sad Grandma's flan recipe is gone forever.
I trust bi/pan people to have far better music taste than gay people
Hey Jess I miss you. I miss you a lot. Its stupid but Im considering coming home early just to see you again soon. That's stupid, right?
"God is dead and we killed him"
What does that even mean??
Hotel pools are nothing more than a cultural relic
Like a thief in an empty house
When did ads on airplanes become so normal? Give me peace.
I wonder what the Harley Davidson corporate office looks like
Arriving in Bogota: the first time I've seen lightning from a plane window
Where are the adult spelling bees?
I wander drowsily through the muted light of the cafe
The cold nips at me like a jovial dog