You wish you were eating this pasta verdure with me

Rediscovered medjool dates in my olde age

Their team looked into it and validated my hunch about what was causing it. How is it that can one man be so right about so much. Many people are asking

Politics friends tapping into my IG stories immediately tapping the X like “jfc another goddamn slice of life pic”

To the extent that Christianity has a core ethic, something that distinguishes the Christian Gospel from other systems of belief, Leo is closing in on it, in starkly contemporary terms. This is remarkable

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

Finished a little 8×10 study I crapped out on pre-pandemic. Four colors (umber, ochre, phthalo blue, white), one #4 flat brush. Downpour in Logan Square, looking out the back window from my last Chicago apartment, getting sick from black mold. June 2013. Packed up and moved west. Calling it “Spate”

Americans looked at cars the way capital looks at AI, less oats and carrots and less shit on the roadway is a twofer, big win, and then cars and automotive infrastructure made it easier to move away from other people, and then whole towns were conceived on the belief that everyone would have a car

Leave it to Justin to cause a system error not even the bank tellers have seen

Dream land is so good sometimes

It happened only a week ago, despairing of having read all the Cortázar that exists in English, I asked for the return of the story collection I had loaned out. Then nearly exiting Powells which I’d entered in search of savory treats and coffee and the bathroom code, there stood a new-to-me title

Industry lobbyists inspiring debilitating fear in public servants is how we know the product is necessary and beneficial

I dislike Mumford

Most nostalgia is innocuous and fleeting, a flash of fuzzy happy memory, and is distinct from this political nostalgia, what Camus called “nostalgia for unity,” which longs to actually return to the supposedly simpler time when the world was ordered, money was magic, and everything made sense

Early Aerosmith is very good

Slam dunk reelection for any liberal incumbent who wasn’t Tina Kotek

In the field of Religious Studies, we have people who are atheists and agnostics and people who are believers, but the field takes as an axiom that people are willing to look at religious texts historically-critically, which basically precludes a lot of the right today from participating in it.

I ate too many chips

I should be getting city money for my projects also

In a sick, violent way, they have more faith in the possibility of a new world than a lot of people on the other side. They are willing to reimagine all of it. Many of us cannot imagine getting rid of payday loans and they’re like eff it, let’s see if the Pope’s still got the juice.

Optimizations on the lobbying website have made the site too fast for the tricks I added to the UI lol

Invoking just war theory on a war of aggression lmao

Do you have a good chickpea salad sandwich recipe to share or can you get me the one from the NYT

Julia Backroom-Edwards

Much simpler. It’s a straightforward formulation of political conservatism via Wilhoit's law (conservatism consisting of in-groups the law protects but does not bind, out-groups the law binds but does not protect) melded with double predestination and magic

The psychological makeup of the Revoke the Permit group is so fascinating, I feel privileged to be living in the same plane as these people who have found and shaped each other, all operating under the same cognitive-ideological constraints. How often do you get to observe cult formation from onset

This does not seem like the time in history to cut Religious Studies programs, but what do I know?

Perfect timing for the buses and the coffee was top tier. That might not be enough to save the day but it comes close

Massive destabilizing shifts in linguistic and ethical norms + thorough disenchantment with the political and entertainment classes raised to serve as secular stand-ins for religious authority and knowledge along the axes of virtue and distance/otherness + having literally nothing to look forward to

In four years I’d remade campus media and provided students and faculty angles of attack against an administration on track to financialize the school and my girlfriend wanted to take my photo right where I’m standing

Transformed the world around me passing an hour painting then walking through the park. Colors unusually bright, contours differentiated, glasses feeling like an powerup but not a need

I hate going viral

I bought one of those disgusting coffee drinks you like. Alt milk and sweetener

“a distraction from their planned midterm campaign focused on high costs and unchecked corruption” Whose responsibility is it to check the corruption fellas

Switched around my plans for dinner on account of seventy degrees and sun

Good colors outside rn

Dearth of fruit desserts at home and feeling desperate. Considering a spoonful of jam. I’m suffering

Why is Cory Booker in town

Wanted to report back now that I’ve eaten everything. The burrito was superior to the tacos

Have the impeachment articles been filed?

Time for some public servants to risk arrest or worse. Show the fuck up

That habit of progressive electeds of transmuting their outrage into wishes and resignation is a habit of Americans broadly, where those empowered to choose and to enact better outcomes instead defer to the imagined interests of an imagined cabal of scale-thumbers and cast their votes as predictions

Free tacos with my burrito tonight. Charmed life honestly

Unrelated to the image below, I write code by hand and I'm available for project and contract work next week. DMs are open

The grocery store was playing the Coltrane rendition of “My Favorite Things” as a means of taunting me while I discovered they no longer stocked any of mine

Passing the basket around collecting material apologies from my twitter skeptics and detractors from 2010-13

This man has a demon

Sad to report that my application to the We Are Going To Win Club sits unsent on my desk

Pre-covid I hit that sweet spot of religious practice where, if I acceded to the unofficial welcoming committee’s escalating integration tactics, the countdown began to a) leadership flipping out over some self-representation or b) some dumbass nonchalantly volunteering my services to a third party