don’t touch that, it’s the book I like to keep waiting in my lap while I scroll on my phone & then immediately regret not just reading the book instead

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

Languishing in bed with some awful stomach bug. The new Boards of Canada is my haunting soundtrack.

This is so sumptuous: a Nouvelle Vague cover of “Enjoy the Silence” by Depeche Mode youtu.be/w8iMnOU7Ag4?...

I caved and put in my AC window unit this evening. It’s too darn hot.

Re: Top Chef What are you doing Sieger?! Ooooof that’s not a good look.

Watching Top Chef, and the odd cuts to these mystery diners in the rabbit challenge is WEIRD.

Beer and a book

Made a collage today. I’m considering having a lil fish or sea creature pop up in the water in the foreground. But maybe it’s done?

The peonies are starting to pop off

Yes I have seen a child and can paint one, why do you ask?

Lookat my new butter dish!

If you tell me to give up the one thing that makes me a person who can find SOME KIND OF HAPPINESS in this nightmare world because an LLM can do it using the stolen brilliance of real human beings, you're actually killing me. You're a murderer of the heart and soul. My assassin.

These irises are so cool!

I have a new nemesis: the impossible-to-open pump of a new Native brand shampoo bottle.

I’m going to Art-a-Whirl this weekend in NE Minneapolis and I’m so excited!

Proust Baking Company Recalls Thousands of Madeleines

This irrepressible rogue would like to wish you all the best for the week ahead 🦊

Air has been my soundtrack this evening. Moon Safari mostly, with a The Virgin Suicides soundtrack chaser.

New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.

Kacey Musgraves tickets acquired! Giddyup.

i believe this is related to the rise in people who are utterly incurious about anything not directly beneficial to themselves

Happy Earth Day! We all get to live on the best planet! Let's do what we can to be good stewards of our world.

I can’t open this cap! This is most vexing!

I now understand, in the final months of my 30s, that tasks requiring require deeper work (writing, design, etc.) gotta happen in the morning! The little admin-y bits can be done later. I've generally been working the other way around, and that is not the way.

Saw Lady Gaga on Thursday night. Wow wow wow wow wow

This damn post has absolutely ruined my brain every time I hear someone mention "for the time being." Major kudos to the poster, if I ever meet you in person I will congratulate you and then punch you in the face.

Come on then, and remove him.

Gaga is battling an upper respiratory thing, and I’m on pins and needles about Thursday’s concert!

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

And I completed this icy beach babe triptych collage

Worked on some collage tonight:

Another good book alert! Eradication: A Fable By Jonathan Miles

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For me, the question isn’t whether generating art with AI is good or bad. It’s just definitionally impossible. Art is what humans create to express the nonliteral. An algorithm, however much data it has, has no sense of the nonliteral. It might make something that pleases you, but it can’t make art.

"One principle of collage, for me," Sante said, "is you have to kill one thing to make another. It's a small-scale model of revolutionary behavior."

HELP! I can't stop listening to the new Raye album!

My dog has completely deactivated

It’s epic, sonic Cinema!

Ooooh this Raye album is ON FIRE. I am in awe.

Melissa Faliveno’s Hemlock blends addiction, grief, nature, myths, and gender roles in a gripping, beautiful way. I was sold by the front flap jacket copy: “A woman haunted by a dark inheritance returns to the woods where her mother vanished in this queer Midwestern gothic—a butch Black Swan.”

Nonstop listening to the new Ladytron album today. It's like I'm taking a long neon-glow road trip across the country in the year 2167.

Tonight’s “chip away at the inboxes” is brought to me by the music of: The Olympians (cosmic instrumental soul) & The Gorillaz (a collage of all kinds of stuff)

For St. Patty's Day, have a few Muppets singing a traditional Irish song: youtu.be/OCbuRA_D3KU

these dogs bro

this is the kind of news i needed

I won this round—eventually. But the vexations persist.

Another day, another fight with the office printer.

One of life’s great ironies that “iamb” is a trochee