Disgraced Emanations From a Tranquil State by Apparition

This album—released last week—came up randomly in my recommendations earlier this week, so I decided to give it a listen on a whim. I wasn't paying it too much mind at first, as the opening track is pretty straight-up death metal. That's fine, but the sub-genre tends not to do much for me other than as background music. The album has some pretty interesting dynamics, though, and by the time I got to the third track ("

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Almost no news stories ever need to be “breaking.”

🔗 A fake bridge collapse? Nope. – Kevin Drum: A sign of the times: Last night I saw a post on Twitter that displayed a video of the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore collapsing. I did a quick check of a couple of news sites and saw nothing about it, so I assumed it was some kind of AI joke and moved on. Needless to say, I was wrong.

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🔗 Boring Ideas | The Resonance Myth

Sure, our brains may crave patterns and stories, but pandering to these desires is a recipe for mediocrity. When everyone is trying to “resonate,” all we get is a cacophony of sameness. Everyone running at the same ideas. Everyone thinking the same way. Everyone trying so desperately to be relatable that nobody has the courage to be unusual.


These are the best composition books and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

Caliber composition notebook

They cost about five bucks and can be found at CVS, of all places.

The paper is shockingly good—better to write on than notebooks that cost ten times as much—and will stand up to just about any kind of ink.


I’m pretty sure that I have said it before, but I would pay good money for a mechanical pencil that combined the heft and sturdiness of a Rotring with the Kuru Toga’s lead-rotation mechanism. Like, if I could just have the KT’s guts in the body of a Rotring, that would be my perfect mechanical pencil.


Typewritten index card

More choices v. better things

I have probably told this story before, but a friend of mine once said—while we stood in the pen and pencil aisle at an office supply big-box store, looking at the wall of hundreds of different pens and pencils—"I don’t want more choices, I want better things.“ While that statement was tossed out casually in a moment of inconsequential frustration, it has stuck with me over the years. I have found myself coming back to it pretty regularly.

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Typewritten index card

Sometime I feel like the constant complaining one hears about how much of TV and cinema these days consists of derivative remakes, reboots, and sequels/prequels vastly underestimates the degree to which all the stuff we think of as original was remakes and adaptations.


I am watching Requiem For a Dream for the first time since I originally saw it the theater, when I told myself I never wanted to watch it again.

It is exactly as harrowing as I remember.


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