Category Archives: Uncategorized

FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY

By Billy-Ray Belcourt (2017), via Matthew Ogle’s Pome. Towards a Theory of Decolonization 1. forget everything you’ve learned about love. 2. investment is the social practice whereby one risks losing it all to be part of something that feels like release. lose everything with me. 3. indian time is a form of time travel. aContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY”

FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY EIGHT

From Varlam Shalamov’s “Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag,” in Paris Review via Kottke. 7. I saw that the only group of people able to preserve a minimum of humanity in conditions of starvation and abuse were the religious believers, the sectarians (almost all of them), and most priests. 8. Party workers and the militaryContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY EIGHT”

FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY SIX

Sarah Gerard via The Creative Independent. Do you think stories are things that exist empirically in the world? Yes. I think they’re already somewhere in the world waiting to be discovered and told. They’re like independent, autonomous beings. I’m a medium. [laughs] Yeah. My editor’s partner is a neuroscientist. He can separate out an individualContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY SIX”

FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY FOUR

Takashi Murakami via the Creative Independent. “It’s always easier to think about it as an analogy with the game of baseball. Think about a baseball player hitting a home-run after standing at the batting mound for just a few seconds. To achieve something in those few seconds they train every day. They train and meditateContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY FOUR”