I know you now have a baby daughter, which must be incredible and incomparable and insane, and I’m sure that Marlow will follow in your feet and end up having a net positive impact on the world, which isn’t easy
I’m at an art show of a guy named Murakami, dubbed something about how octopodes will eat their own leg, hoping and mostly knowing it will regenerate, in order to escape entrapment. It’s symbolic in a way even the plebiest
I’m the other kind of robot. Not the dutiful cog in the elaborated system, whose rigid movements are dictated by the unrepentant desire to acquire currency, to purchase assets, to attract a mate. With a better car than the neighbours,
Back in the day, there was this ludicrous and highly offensive fragment of racial discrimination in the America called the “brown paper bag test”. A regular standard brown paper bag, the same kind you make fake wasps nests out of,
I just got back from visiting my grandmother at her alternative nursing home. The managers set these unnecessarily harsh rules that they make sure all of their residents are well aware of, but after speaking to one of the aides
He was waiting to pick Curtis up outside the library. I spoke to Curtis briefly and told him not to go outside until I came in to get him. He would basically do whatever he was told, even if it
Dick Church grew up in Botwood, Newfoundland, dreaming of one day making it in the big time. The Big Time. Surrounded by those content where they were, he always knew he had to get out, but he didn’t know how.
After a long winter, the east wind melts the ice. I emerge from our hut to gaze at the mountains in front of me. I inhale the crisp air as I take it all in. Miyagase is lovely this time
I know you recently got released from prison, and while I can’t begin to understand what being in there is like, I’m very happy for you about getting out. You see, I have a vague memory of a regular back-and-forth
You write for the screen, right? I write for myself, to help me make sense of the world, of situations I’ve lived through and couldn’t quite wrap my head around. They rarely end with a satisfactory outcome, but by that
