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2025-18 weekly post

moving is an endless endeavor. i am still in the process. i have little access to the stove within my kitchen

Writing

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah i didnt

Other projects

see above

Books

reading some balzac again. he is my comfort writer. i cannot deny it.

additionally: gave up on The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, the least of the famous living Yokos. i have a lot of thoughts on its totalitarian fantasy kitsch within The Present Day i’d like to sketch out, ifn i find time

Other

adrianne lenker live album: one of the best to’ve done it; one piece is back; SaGa Frontier II, or as S— calls it, Salsa Frontier (look at title screen)

2025-16 and 17 weekly post

missed a week unpacking, so we’ve got a fascinating double week today!!

Writing

revisions and submissions, both good uses of sparse time

Other projects

sorta messed with a golden idol webgame, mostly moved things out of boxes into closets and shelves

Books

finally got some books out, also doing audiobooks. of note: loved Duma Key and Between the World and Me; reading (thank god) Herman Melville; bought a copy of the complete Garielle Lutz

Other

still:

  • podcasts, while moving.

also:

  • saw LAKE live
  • The Rehearsal episode 2, best ever

bitsy game jam submission at wonderville

another game jam at wonderville. there quite fun, as a non-designer. as with last game jam submission, my work on this was mostly writing: a heavily worldbuilt absurd world, with more connections and resonances than you’d ever need. give it a look below:

2025-15 weekly post

MOVING WEEK. THIS WEEK I HAVE BEEN PACKING UP ALL MY THINGS. BOOKS WERE VERY QUICKLY INACCESSIBLE

Writing

listened to a real long text-to-speech mp3 of The Girl, a revision strategy. i think its basically done, but i gotta fix a lot of typos. also did some self-translation and got notification of acceptance to a mag. ill post info here when that’s public

Other projects

little bit of ants. did a game jam over the weekend, oughta post my work up here soon

Books

very little reading, compared to my baseline. most of my books are in boxes, most of my free time’s been spent putting things in boxes

Other

predominantly:

  • podcasts, while moving. they require the perfect amount of focus, aka ‘slight’
  • Case of, Rise of the Golden Idol, on breaks, to fall into wonderful puzzling trifles of delight

i also watched blues brothers for the first time ever; it is bad

2025-14 weekly post

got access to a new apartment this week, so really started moving in earnest. we got an overlap in leases (call me mr. money, its alright), so its been a daily back and forth, cleaning and bringing small things across town

Writing

scattered yet productive. working at random on shorts, touched The Revolution the one day I had time

Other projects

i fixed up the posts page on here to have pagination AND full post content, like a beautifully crowded stream, like a model of the gunky mississippi; tried for some reason to learn NixOS, i dont know why, probably cause im moving and thus swinging around in my mind

Books

gave up on a william vollman book (too much lol), trying to read more japanese

Other

white lotus finale, white lotus finale, white lotus finale