In the LaGuardia airport they make you walk through a gift shop to get to the gates. For sale: a Turtles in Time arcade cabinet.
Who is making this kind of floor space decision in an airport?
A taste of las Vegas in LaGuardia.
✈️ Flying out to Chicago today. It will be my first time there. I’m planning on seeing some improv and eating a sausage. Any other recommendations?
With great powder comes great rash-squash-ability.
– Uncle Ben “Gold Bond” Parker
My friend Jon gifted me the classics. 🍿
New York style trend update: cop mustache’s for men and expensive mullets for women.
Started reading: The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff 📚
Did not finish: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho📚 Not for me. I’ve gotten my fill of “embrace your destiny” allegories.
Smoke stacks near industry city.
What is my “authentic” self? There isn’t one. There are untold multitudes within me, all of which are as real as any other.
Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse taught me new terms.
- Abraxas, a word of spiritual significance to the Gnostics (also a Santana album)
- Chanteuse, a night club singer
- Heeled man, a lackey, a brown noser, willingly subjected dude
- Soiled dove, a female sex worker, used in the old West
Started reading: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 📚
Finished reading: Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse📚
What a fantastic novella. Beautifully rendered, dripping with character, and not a wasted page.
🎙️ Fun episode of The Pursuit of Perfectness on perfectionism and reading.
I’m biased because I edit the podcast and sneak in as on-air talent.
TIL the term Jamais vu, which is essentially the opposite of déjà vu.
Jamais vu involves a sense of eeriness and the observer’s impression of experiencing something for the first time, despite rationally knowing that they have experienced it before.
Found it in this equally fascinating article on the strange scientific research awards.
🕹️ I just beat the original Kirby’s Dream Land for the original Gameboy. Took me an hour and a half. It’s short and relatively easy, but a real fun time. The last boss has a long annoying pattern though.
Every time it looks like the damage of the myth of perpetual growth and climate change couldn’t get any more stark. Wilful ignorance drives civilisation collapse
I haven’t posted anything today. Is that…good?
Currently reading: Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse 📚
Mozilla has a damning car privacy and security report. The worst offender? All of them. I’m grateful I don’t own a car, but I’m in the slim minority in the US. What a shit show.
Back in New York.
Finished reading: 50 Years of Text Games by Aaron A. Reed 📚A wonderful book. If you have any interest in games or novels, read it now.
I called into last weeks Best Show. I was nervous, not my best representation of myself, and I made the mistake of reading the chat, but still proud of myself. Its scary!
🕹️ Last night, I beat Death in Castlevania: Rondo of Blood. So difficult, even with Maria, the easier character! After that, I beat the Shaft boss gauntlet. Now, on to the final level and Dracula. It is hard.