this is now a physical book 📙💫 — thank you my feline friend Yume 🐱 for your patience and support during my sensitive and arduous work (translation) on this 🙏

whew, i have a day (fortunately, seemingly a crispy weather, even) to read this tomorrow. thank you my sister in law who gifted me this book 4 weeks ago for my birthday 🎂😸… haven’t read a darkly dreamlike book like this in a while…looking forward 💫

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The Korean edition of Devotional Cinema (by Nathaniel Dorsky) will be out later this week. So soon. I guess I’m the proud translator 😸📖🎞️

a sleepy student 😸

it’s april 30 here. happy birthday to me … these are the gifts 🎁 for my endurance in this strange world

wondering, still, what happened to frank o’hara’s feline companion after the poet’s sudden death… no records at all…

no doubt that Yume will continue my dedication to nonhuman (e.g., avian) cinema 🐱🎞️🐦‍⬛

this spring, my Korean translation of this book will be published by Mediabus (a Korean & international publisher of artist books) 🎞️✨

too beautiful for a mainstream narrative film 🦅🪻🎞️

made new friends in our new neighborhood ✨🦆🌌🌉

“if you rescue me, I will keep you warm in winter”

we moved to Seoul 🐈🏡

A page from Claude Lévi Strauss’s cahiers… BNF.

at the moment trying to remind myself that I’m queer by reading this book while staying in Korea

What if book reviews didn't operate under the 2 years of never logic? A very generous and critically incisive review of Zoological Surrealism penned by Erin Shevaughn Schlumpf is in the latest issue of SubStance, 54.3 (2025): 133-38. muse.jhu.edu/article/975571

i love you Yume 🐈🪀; spending time with you feels most restful and joyous to me

Delighted to see Zohran Mamdani win. More of this please!

Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.

morning reading & studying korean in cinema studies 👵😸🎞️

Sunday, Yume the cat meditating & dreaming on cinema & poetry

changed my feline companion’s name to ゆめか yumeka 夢香 meaning sweet (in aroma) dream after meditating on a new name for her. she seems to respond to this beautifully. sometimes, I will shorten it and say “yume” 🌸☕️🐈

Who wore it better? Trick question, they both did.

became immersed in studying about Ching Ho Cheng’s work this year… genuinely excited about it 🌌

tested positive for covid today… having several deadlines coming up soon… it’s discouraging quite a bit… still, I’m dancing before my feline companion who found her spot in my mini storage

Botanical surrealism. What Jean Painlevé and montage were to the 20th century, Momoko Seto and compositing are to the 21st. An exploration of the strange beauty of plants and insects. Features the best mollusk love scene since Microcosmos (1996). At TIFF, Fri 9:30 am www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdmd...

my new life form 🐈📝💝

neutering my feline friend/neighbor Gaji this Thursday to stop her dangerous (due to indifferent cars running in this city) wandering and then taking her to my little place (for a week) for her recovery … 🙏🍀 please wish her (and me) best … reorganizing my place as simply as possible for Gaji’s stay

a very fine “cavernous” movie for a humid summer night — dream-like, romantic and ghostly 🕯️

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Scholarly orgs based in the U.S. that purport to be "international" are going to need to come to terms with what it means to continue holding their in-person gatherings in a country many people cannot travel to or no longer feel safe visiting for all kinds of reasons.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 4,1947

rabbit-like, slowly hopping and pleasantly strange memory of Brooklyn 🐇🍀

didn’t get a chance to have any bagels in New York so instead i got a few bagels from the food-rich Montréal airport… these handmade blueberry bagels are so good… and simply comfort foods in bed in the next morning of an intercontinental long flight… 🫐🥯😸

good bye for a bit

Tom Gunning on Zoom to talk about cinema of attraction and film noir after the Ragtag screening at MoMI 🎞️🎬😻

i love love love researching at nypl 💝💘😻✍️

always beautiful

a nocturnal cinema of fireflies ✨💫

good night prospect

MoMA

literary and botanical pilgrimage in Brooklyn today…

only angelic souls can see fireflies archived in this video ✨ (note: from prospect park in brooklyn)

i didn’t get to see my white squirrel friend yet but instead encountered a mysterious cat (seeming domesticated before) living with other wildlife animals 🐈🏞️ in the park

first cup of filter coffee (brewed by me) in my old hometown, Astoria in New York ☕️🏡🌳🪟😸 a proustian moment of sensing the time and memory with a companion of Costa Rica coffee

the ethics of rest: my betta friend Haji now has a place to sleep on and swim through (during my nyc trip and afterwards) 🐠💤

rolling right and left (1/2)