2024

A Couple Poems I’ve Been Texting to Friends

• I Want My Body to Rot by Gina Puorro
• You Can’t Have it All by Barbara Ras

booktok: the hotgirlification of reading

• I hate that « celebrity book stylist » is a job… and yet, it’s one that I desperately want!

March 14, 2024

• I've been reading this article about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. I often joke that I'm obsessed with languages because they are _ how we think _, but I also know that it's more complicated than that. I think that our brains are complex, & language is one manifestation of culture & one way is reinforced.

From messynessychic: The Pathé Archive is hiding some Rad Midcentury Hair Trends

Some Fairytales May Be 6,000 Years Old

Overflowing Vases from the Omniglot blog.

March 22, 2024

I wrote about personal domains as art projects in the early 2000s.

We live on a pale blue dot.

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. - Carl Sagan

We are not just insignificant in space; we are also insignificant in time (YouTube link).

More Things Found via Tumblr

• The Many Faces of Punk Literature
• De-googling

Fantasmagorie (1908) First Cartoon Ever

I am so guilty of sophisticated procrastination! I've probably tried every tool and notetaking app on the planet. In the end, I always come back to Apple Notes. I want to go through the Liberation Library when I have a chance.