a word about james dean and heartless junk

no disrespect to the dead, but i recently saw a clip of james dead in giant, and he was NOT good. he IS handsome and he IS full of emotion, but he IS NOT a good actor. through full disclosure i may have had a poster of him in my room when i was a pre-teen/teenager. i can’t remember but it sounds familiar. (“if sound warehouse sold it, i probably bought it”)

in other news, i loved this essay about newsletters, which really gets to something great about the web and blogs and newsletters and the beauty of stories about “break-ups and coffee beans.” one especially real note:

All I know is that the web today is not made for us. It’s no longer made for people to send charming bits of texts to strangers. Instead, I see the web as this public good that’s been hijacked by companies trying to sell us mostly heartless junk.

wanda why aren’t you dead

damn this poem

wanda coleman, “wanda why aren’t you dead”
discovered here; more info here

most of the time who knows, man?

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my compadres

(going through my screenshots on my desktop in avoidance of homework)

oh dang this is a boring post

school started again and ughhhhhhhh ughhhhhh that’s all i can say about it. theoretically, this class will be great, but it’s already totally dumb, with a lot of assignments every week and four things due tonight and two last thursday and all i can say is ughhhhhhhh times 1000. i was not ready.

also i took an enneagram test last week — guess that tells you the state of the world.

(sidenote: my coworker was listening to the guardians of the galaxy soundtrack last week, and wow, who was the music supervisor on that? [dave jordan.] anyway, it really defines the movie: like conjures the movie for me more than the movie does?)

ZZZZZZZ AND WITH THAT I BID YOU GOOD NIGHT

my 2021 style icon?

Mostly the H Word

online reviewers are insane. or maybe this is just a title case bot? (although, in the reviewer’s defense, the book, the inheritance games, was a very fast read.)

this year’s more/less list

here’s last year’s — i did pretty good, tho kleenex still my achilles heel

this speaks my proportion language

isabel marant fall 2020 campaign with mica argañaraz
photographed by juergen teller

JOMO

Stacey Billups, JOMO: Joy of Missing Out, 2019

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