fri nov 6

when am i never up early?

The Science of Can and Can’t: A Physicist’s Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals by Chiara Marletto Bookshop.org

another early morning, up at 3:30am or so. it's election day here in the usa. caffeinated and showered, went to polls at open at 6am. now we wait.

up at 3:30am because of daylight savings and cat. coffee infused. this is gordon lightfoot time of year but i'm listening to albert king from 1975

aaron bastani meets josephine quinn

may the finest captain rest among the stars. patrick stewart, ’star trek’ captain and ’x-men’ superhero, dies at 86 via the hollywood reporter

thursday oct 29

up early at 4am with a green tea instead of a coffee. really shaking things up

whereupon we learn of the passing of sir patrick stewart, the finest captain of the uss enterprise.

bad juju emanates from all things touching the accursed trump/maga presidential administration today. a fired general, a warning from a sitting us senator of war planning most foul. election interfering bullshit.

bad vibes also giving stink lines off of russia in regards to a renewed offensive push in ukraine

crypto firms polymarket and binance are hacked to the tune of billions of dollars

an insane day

your cells keep a record of every workout you’ve ever done via nautilus magazine

sorry that I can't let you go

but

i lost myself and

the last place i saw me was with you

i keep coming back

because

it’s just where i know to look

so if you see me around

let me know

#poem

cool free typeface from Gruppo Due

it's monday, october 26

woke up at 2am, read an article about philip II of france on my phone, fell back asleep. woke up at 4am from an odd dream about medieval cathedrals. made coffee. paid off monthly bills

hit the local trader joe’s for supplies and coffee beans

"Everyone says that no masters of the arts will appear as the world comes to an end. This is something that I cannot claim to understand. Plants such as peonies, azaleas and camellias will be able to produce beautiful flowers, end of the world or not. If men would give some thought to this fact, they would understand. And if people took notice of the masters of even these times, they would be able to say that there are masters in the various arts. But people become imbued with the idea that the world has come to an end and no longer put forth any effort. This is a shame. There is no fault in the times."

— Hagakure

"I don't know if you necessarily have to do something bad in order to get a lesson. I think you attract those things. You say 'I want to be great'. The karma that you are creating is an experience that will help you be great. It doesn't mean it's going to be a good one. It means it's going to be something you need to help you get to that place of greatness. 'I want to be great' - well now you have to go through all these trials and things, you know. Or, 'I want to practice kindness'. You know the gods will say here practice on this - missed your flight, took your seat. What are you gonna do? So that's how I think it works in my world."

— Eykah Badu

The American suburbs in the 1970s and 80s did things to the adolescent mind. Things you can't come back from. It was the grid formatted freshly mowed lawn scented heat death of culture neatly condensed & stored in locked household liquor cabinets. An airless existence mocking all karmic civilizational laws;— a true quantum contradiction functioning liminally in classical reality as both the zenith and nadir of the 20th century American imperial project.

"Nothing before the 2020s has ever seemed entirely real, to me. Hard to imagine they weren’t constantly happy, given all they still had. Tigers, for instance.”

— William Gibson, Agency

morning jam