“Now, at over one thousand years old, the novel has new rivals but no real peer, nothing to unseat it as the most sensitive witness to our quick, crooked passage through the world, of what it has meant to be here at all, in Thomas's words, ‘together, erring.’”
"User Options" by Noah Kucij: Do you want to give Hallow permission to use your location? Do you want Hallow running in the background while you sleep? Hallow has detected the following devices nearby: old telephone booth, white oak stand, grazing array of rabbits. Hallow wants to access the following: images, objects, notions, certain slants of light, blind curves, rapt silences. Hallow is set as the default program to run when you encounter headlights scrambled up a slope, pages the sudden wind flips through, bare necklines, bourbon, lone crows. Do you want to change this setting?
Noah Kucij in the new @eldiagram.bsky.social: thediagram.com/26_1/index.h...
"My dad will die a few days later, while I am working on this story. This conversation about Cheddar Bay Biscuits will turn out to be one of our last."
Played myself. Ate a big breakfast before going downtown and drove past the pit beef stand, but wasn’t hungry because of aforementioned big breakfast.
I don’t follow it closely enough but it feels a bit like when the dog catches the mail truck w/r/t he got a lot of the bike stuff done and now what
That dude really disappeared when X stopped being popular
I think of the “make this fit into this” scene literally every week of my professional life
This week’s @beyondvideo.bsky.social pulls
No argument here. They have their place once in a while but I resent that they’re the default now
I’ve been thinking this every time I get lunch lately.
"Read the book, not the summary.
Write the piece, not the prompt.
Suffer like the artist you are. It ain’t easy, but if it were easy, it wouldn’t be worth doing."
"Critiquing A.I. these days is like shooting fish in a barrel — and I mean poorly animated fish that keep sprouting human fingers inside a barrel that, as soon as you ask it a question or two, reveals itself to be a Nazi."
"And yet, there were moments: ... Jogging past a bar at seven a.m. and seeing the bartender and all the regulars asleep at the bar, the front door wide open, morning sunlight streaming in."
Caught myself typing, “an ungodly amount of butter” in a group chat in time for me to rephrase because I’m trying to avoid cliche, and also because butter is god.
Morning gospel by @cunningpscott.bsky.social
Tony Desk concert and it’s just a bunch of ducks.
Imagine if degrees in this situations like this faded out like Back to the Future photographs
I have an unrepeatable-in-public story about visiting a HS friend there exactly once and changing the course of at least four peoples’ lives… anyway, gonna start telling people I got my PhD there because it’s not like they can check on that in a few years.
RIP The Easter Keg Hunt
I think it's broken? I started glowing and had an indescribable urge to head to the lighthouse
What app is this? Now I’m curious what it looks like when it’s my turn to be the boat
I get rocked by allergies twice a year but somehow not at all this week
"I think it’s that deep, vulnerable, perhaps slightly ashamed humanity that draws me to a [Larry] Levis poem—how he is so willing to break himself open on the page, and yet how he sometimes does so with a style that makes it clear how much he still doubts, or hurts, or wonders, or aches."
"The vibe [of a third place] should be low-key but lively. ... and wit is desired if not required. Drips are encouraged to cultivate charm. ... Strangers are welcome in a third place, but it’s the regulars who keep things running smoothly, serving as custodians of its atmosphere."
Stop making me look at the Truth Social AI post.
Bumper sticker that says BABY IS BORED
He’s at Vision House Fridays but the menu is variable. I’ve also seen the muffuletta in the to-go cabinet at Sophomore Coffee. His IG might have more info: www.instagram.com/mr.roastbeas...
The muffuletta is the best thing he makes but it’s a stacked field
First customers of the season at Joyce’s pit beef stand outside the burned down hardware store
It’s so good man