Opinion
Spring is here / the lilacs bloomed and died already
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I recently had a fun yogurt breakthrough that I’m excited about. I have been making all our yogurt for a year now, and it’s easy and fine. As with all such projects, you know, there is a lot of googling and YouTubing for things like “yogurt runny why” and “how long can I culture yogurt” […]
“To Stonk or Not to Stonk”: Stock Market Advice From An Anarchist Who Doesn’t Know Anything
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Two dearly beloved longtime readers/actual human friends who are also real-life life partners who live together posted SIMULTANEOUSLY YET UNBEKNOWNST TO ONE ANOTHER on my last entry, asking me for, of all things, stock market advice! Well, one of them wasn’t asking for advice, to be fair, but their comments were about the same issue, […]
What a Tangled Web we Weave
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Hi y’all It’s been like a week of nonstop gross weather and I am starting to feel the burn, of Covid life I guess. The burn of the onrushing online semester I deeply dread; the burn of isolation from humanity; the burn of constant low-grade anxiety and all that. I haven’t been sleeping well. When […]
“I’m Still Alive”–Pearl Jam
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Y’all!!! Thanks to the couple of people who have checked in on me recently. I know it is weird when you have been reading some random person’s blog forever and then they disappear. You are like, did they die? How would I ever even find out? It’s very strange, this internet life. Rest assured, as […]
Midsommar ok!!!!
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MIDSOMMARRRRRRRRRRRR I thought it was brilliant!! It was about several interesting things, I thought (LOL). I don’t have a good outline for putting my thoughts together so I guess they will just be all over the place. For starters don’t you think it was basically the ultimate “culture clash” movie? It explored cultural encounter in […]
TOM CRUISE MUMMY
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It is so funny to come back here after so long solely because I wanted to write about the Tom Cruise mummy movie but that’s what I’m doing!!!! A couple of years ago we decided to get really into Halloween. It feels like a pretty pure holiday: it’s Of My Cultural Heritage (motley anglo-euro peasantry) […]
National Design Awards
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 National Design Awards ofthe Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. We were fortunate to be nominated in such illustrious company. Pictured:146 page portfolio book for judging, now part of the collection at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.
Steve Rodriguez interview
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OnCreativity speaks with Steve Rodriguez—founder of 5boro Skateboards, skatepark designer, and longtime NYC skater. How is designing a skatepark different than riding one? After thirty years as a dedicated NYC skater, what has changed? How do we evolve through risks? With the “OnCreativity” series, Plazm explores the nature of creativity and how it works via […]
What does regret mean?
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What does a band like the Butthole Surfers mean in the world? I’ve wondered for many years since the first time I experienced one of their shows. I recently received a press copy of the visual history book Butthole Surfers: What Does Regret Mean? The poster from the show I first saw is in the […]
NIETZSCHE’S EYEBALLS
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Well it has certainly been awhile. HELLO. Are any of you even still out there? I don’t know why I’ve fallen off updating this thing so steeply. I got busy with an actual career I guess, and now I’m old as dirt and spend my free time sleeping (not true), but then also there’s something […]