“If you want to find the treasure, like a pot of jewels at the end of the rainbow, look no further than your normal experience....
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“I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory...
Choice and chance are the same thing.
“The only actuality is here-now, this immediacy or present-ness, this aliveness, this ever-changing present experiencing right now, this one bottomless moment. This is where the...
The Rose of Nevada
Saw Mark Jenkin’s third feature, The Rose of Nevada last night. A gritty yet dreamy vision, shot on 16mm film with an entirely overdubbed Foley...
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Faith in online humanity restored
It didn’t take much. A few minutes surrendering to the serendipity of Kagi.com’s Small Web feature saw to that. No corporations, no algorithms, no enshittification;...
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There is no truth in language.
Still got this thing on.
“The more we know ourselves, the fewer friends we’ll have…” — Men’s Work 🤔
“Capitalism does not contain an inherent tendency to civilise itself. Left to its own devices, it can be expected to create rates of return on...
“How do I see a bird on the wing, when there is nothing present but bone, sinew, blood, feather, and air? Not even that, not even...
“Memory is a liar. It's a heap of dog-eared, smudged, incessantly revised fictions.” — Peter Schjeldahl
“Come back to what’s here, right now. Not your explanation of it. Not your interpretation of it. The plain fact of it.” — Rob Matthews,...
“There is no need to lean, brows knitted, on the imagined oars of the will. Sit still; the sail is raised of itself, and fills.”...
“There is a peculiar form of moral comfort that defines modern societies. We criticize loudly, feel strongly, share indignation generously — and yet continue exactly...
Satire proof
I’ve been really enjoying re-watching Veep again. Seasons 6 and 7 track the rise of proto-MAGA candidate Jonah Ryan and depressingly demonstrates how immune to...
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“Now is simply now. You are simply you. And tell me, since you want to leave the place where you are, where is it exactly...
