Thanks to a brief look at a small list of my friends on twitter, I saw this tweet, linking to a poem by one of my favorite poets (and my internet friend), Wasim Salman.
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“I am the luxury of power.”
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“Something like a person built with poems.”
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Read “Bloodborne: Metroplex” here. Then read the rest of his poems, please. If you’re here, you’ll love ‘em!
Lately text-based communication has been really overwhelming and difficult for me. Keeping up with texts, emails, etc has made me feel really panicky and stressed. It’s essential to my work and relationships so I’m doing everything I can to relax about it; and I’m reducing my intake of things like Twitter (I have it blocked at a network level for most of the day every day now, which has really been helping me focus and redirect my brain) and trying to just respond in any way rather than wait for the “right”-feeling response. That’s a deeply-rooted anxiety for me, for various reasons.
In any case, I’m sorry to my friends who haven’t heard as much from me lately, or who have had to wait an obnoxiously-long time for replies both casual and important. I have not been in a good headspace, but I’m trying to improve it and not let you down.
And if you really need me in a time-sensitive way, please just call me. That’s easier somehow.
I really love when a cat chirps in pleasant surprise at either your presence or your touch.
I had intense dreams last night, of encounters with a new text by mark danielewski that he was selling for $120 plus more for DLC, and of other texts and descriptions that i came across and were absolutely overwhelming. there’s a no reason to type any of this so vaguely, except to say that my nighttime imagination has been more visceral lately, and I’m glad. for a while I had nothing approaching an interesting dream, and in recent weeks I’ve lived days and lives in a single night.
*pauly shore watching DBZ voice* the leaning tower of... frieza
Hello, friends. I've made myself a little place to Post that isn't a major social media platform. I feel better in myself when I don't visit those places as often; and I don't want you to have to go through them to find me. I also appreciate the space to think out loud and at more length. You already know the rationale.
I'm planning to add an RSS feed, and then to automatically tweet a link to each new Post, since I'd like you to be able to keep up however you like. I also don't see this as the final design; it doesn't matter too much, so I'm just shipping it for now.
I've wanted a personal blog-type place for a while, but there are a surprising number of ways you can be self-conscious about presenting yourself. I want to get outside the confines of the big platforms, and post my jokes as well as longer explorations about what I'm reading, playing, and thinking. I want to give myself room to dream, to be both an idealist and a realist... and this is a small part of that.
From 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki, Episode 1.