what i'm reading:
Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus
Jamie Loftus came to my city on her book tour to support the release of the paperback edition. I'm a big fan of the work she does contextualizing the subjects on 16th Minute.
I have hot dogs orbiting my head like a dazed cartoon. I've never been so hungry for those fuckers. Even during the part where she tried to make the hypersaccharine meat goop they're made from sound unappetizing.
what i'm listening to:
a random techno mix on mixcloud
I'm in an arms race with sp*tify. I use ReVanced to crack the app and they keep on patching it. Occasionally, they invalidate my password and I have to reset it. They did that this week and I didn't have time to the crack back up before I went to the gym, so when I got on the treadmill I went on mixcloud and pressed play on a random techno set. It was some British guy (who else?) with some really unbearable producer tag. But before I knew it, I had run over a mile. Fuck it, I thought, I'll keep going. My calves still fucking hurt. Thanks British techno DJ guy.
what i'm watching:
Vulcanizadora (2025)
Awesome fucking movie about 40 year old duded lighting fireworks in the woods. I have hope for American cinema now.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (Season 2)
I'm gonna show my ass as a reality show philistine: I cannot keep these people straight. Why does everyone look the same. Why does everyone look like that.
something i liked:
overpaying for hand-made ceramics
there was an arts festival in my city this past weekend, so I got a crock, a nice mug, and a sunburn. Yippee!
something i hated:
the publishing industry's stranglehold on lending libraries
On either Hoopla or Libby I saw a big banner ad that was advertising that a certain book could be borrowed by anyone, without limits, instead of the "1 ebook = 1 book" bullshit, without a shred of irony that the publishing industry slapped the Internet Archive with a lawsuit for doing the same thing at the height of the Covid epidemic.
Fuck publishing companies, fuck copyright, fuck capitalism, fuck all private property, and fuck the United States of America.
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