His sign off is “so it goes.” He loves Vonnegut.

My dad started a book review blog in his retirement, like 10 years ago. He got a big BookTok bump this last year. It’s so embarrassing - when I think about it, I want to kill myself

I got into Fantano in 2012. I’ve seen a movie every other weekend since I was four. My mom was a French horn instructor at Oberlin. She used to be really into Radiohead when I was a kid - so cringe, right?

I imagined a magical anime katana: When you are calm, you slice a clean razor-thin cut through your enemy. If you are attack in anger, the cut becomes wider and wider. Blinded by rage, one slice could erase a man.

Is it illegal to point a finger gun at a stranger and “pull the trigger?” I want them to know I don’t want them around

Obviously I would want to be a member of Boygenius. But I don’t think they’d accept me because of my differences.

when I see the Google ad about how you can use AI to make experiencing loss easier for your kids and I recognize the music as the soundtrack for Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox (2009)

as a teenager, planning for my funeral song to be Weird Fishes/Arpeggi

an echo from airwaves of the distant past: “… implies the existence of a Muslim Bale…”

He just doesn’t have an outlet, like lightning in an open space

He just doesn’t have an outlet, like killing millions of people

remaking the Range Life music video but with a car

I’ve enjoyed cooking fried dinners where everything’s small cubes or everything’s “matchsticks”

.@tao_lin’s “whale” poem is a retelling of strega nona for the post-nuclear-family era

Do you think you could break a marble statue’s arm?

Good superpower: I’m debating a person who disgusts me and my words feel like warm sunlight blooming on their skin

Sex used to be really different in the past - kind of like what happened to Republican / Democratic party since Abe Lincoln

Imagined myself 8 feet tall, but still waking up in the middle of the night and being absolutely certain I’m getting strep throat again

To those who find themselves hopping between NYC and SF + are looking to branch out: You can understand other cities and their citizens by their relative distances. Austin is 50% SF, 50% NYC. Chicago is 25-75. Phoenix: 75-25. Helpful if you or your team is looking to relocate.

I’m going out tonight (to be surrounded by enemies)