leased it from lucifer
- bandname?
- song title?
- album name?
leased it from lucifer
- bandname?
- song title?
- album name?
used by those whose latest read
was the subtitles of a show spoken
in their mother tongue, to
relegate text to the digital shredder
for crimes of insincerity and
artificiality—because of a dash.
canceling—and simultaneously proving
they never deserved—emily dickenson.
blessed with an age of
enlightenment,
writing
races to a bland, dishpan soakwater
bottom—where
esoteric punctuation becomes the
irrefutable tell of
machine-assembled prose;
“i told myself i was okay, the best okay i’d ever been, but it was hard to believe it any more.”
show them a good time: track | p161, nicole flattery
“be seen living a normal, daily life. ride a bicycle. that’s a good, caeefree way of getting around. you trust a woman on a bicycle. that’s essential, the bicycle. try not to think about any pain.”
show them a good time: abortion, a love story | p146 —nicole flattery
“even the catastrophe of my own life was something i managed with amazing slowness.” p20, _show them a good time_, nicole flattery
one more day to finish these! they expire at midnight, right?
knock it off, keith. you’re harshing our buzz.
“it was hot today, and bright, and buggy: the gnats dove into her face, black dots between her eyes and the page, as if the punctuation marks were fleeing” —nathan hill, the nix, p476
fantastic line!
hey goog… why TF did documents need tabs???
“Rather than relying on a built-in infotainment system, you'll use your phone plugged into a USB outlet or a dedicated tablet inside the cabin for your entertainment and navigation needs.”
puh-leeze can slate get these vehicles to market!!!
arstechnica.com/cars/2025/04...
nevermind the bad shit i did, if it weren’t for the jerks who told you about it, i wouldn’t look nearly as stupid as i do today. see? it’s all their fault.
(about photographs) “for at that point, the future is still unknown to us and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest.” douglas coupland, p17 _generation x_
Agree! You are no longer just buying a car, you’re entering a data sharing relationship. #ffs
talent hides
under layers and layers of
practice…
you’re only going pro
at what you do
the most.
it’s just that
it might not quite
pay
like you’d expected.
BREAKING: Signal to be renamed Four Seasons Total Signaling
“does anyone reread a murder mystery?”
— jennifer egan, _the candy house_ p82
on days when i struggle to find the words i meant to say, maybe it’s just a good day for synonyms instead of being a bad day for vocabulary.
we are, currently, not in control of the narrative and the story makes us all look terrible.
i feel sorry for anyone who has to play in a jersey with that collar.
“death by misadventure” was the coroner’s official pronouncement of dolours price…
been reading _say nothing: a true story of murder and memory in northern ireland_
well written, crazy twists and turns, hard to believe it’s not fiction.
🤪 oh that’s good.
🤦♂️
oof adidas… hoping you only put these nasty pseudo-collars on LAFC kits and not as the mls2025 spec kit. did you purposely not even test one on someone doing something mildly sporting?
just when i’m about to slam _moby dick_ closed and scream, “enough with this cetological bullshit!” and melville churns out one of these:
“real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.” ch86
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How much more efficient could these electric cars be if they only used their electric power for locomotion
I get it, we’re spewing tons of data, my phone is always collecting (if i have it on).
jalopnik.com/brothel-visi...
So, this is just a leak due to incompetence. How do you feel about handing your data over to an electric car company owned by a nutball with an agenda or a company that is headquartered in china?
re-reading _moby dick_… melville sprinkled in some great lines that i gave him zero credit for when this was required reading:
“methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.”