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    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

    2025-13 weekly post

    this week was another allergy week. turns out im allergic to cats. i have two cats, and have for years. i have become a weaker person now!

    Writing

    typed up a revision of my buffalo story and submitted it. let’s hope it goes well

    also worked on some translations and just the littlest bit of revisions for The Revolution. as stated above: a weak of allergies (get it? get it?), which i may just have to adapt to now

    Other projects

    tryna learn nginx stuff to rehost a few websites, getting back into the fun of the pico ants. overall, calm but steady

    Books

    normal patterns. the new html review came out and i adored new legibility from it

    Other

    been playing some ufo 50 again, now that im mostly done with the zelda; started watching belgian de mol; caught up with White Lotus and cringed in the corner of my sofa

    2025-12 weekly post

    recovery week, revokery week, allergy symptoms rising week, alright

    Writing

    notes app flash, old story revision, translations when i have time

    onto ch 2 of the Revolution and quite happy with where it is. trying to solidify the so-callable internal logic, in order that the pointless continuity is even more solid, as a thematic thing

    Other projects

    fixed my rss feed, posted another devlog for the ants, tryna learn math. all this inevitable

    Books

    started the audiobook of Wittgensteins Mistress: that’s a book made to be read aloud, despite everything. started complete Garielle Lutz and loving it. the eternal present - by kate wagner - the late review was good

    Other

    on a neil young kick. fooled with the Pathologic 3 demo till i accidentally went to the menu and erased my save. saw my yearly of Montreal at Brooklyn Steel on sunday

    2025-11 weekly post

    went to LA for a long weekend

    Writing

    revised on “a cliff”, my short about christian plants; started a long overdue revision of “the revolution”; tryna translate “we mimes” to japanese, for practice

    Other projects

    finally back to writing up about my pico-8 ants :)

    Books

    i’m reading clarise lispector now. everyones reading clarice lispector now. ive seen multiple strangers this week read her books. also been listening to werner herzog’s memoirs, as though to look for literary foils

    Other

    listened to music on planes cam you BELIEVE! (mostly blue gene tyranny)

    2025-10 weekly post

    a calmer week, a recovery week; attempting to resume a manic style

    Writing

    finished another draft of ‘the girl’. i really like this one now, its solidifying into something. in a month or so i’ll re-read and see how i feel about it, if its ready for desperate attempts at notice by the world

    also thinking of new ideas for ‘the revolution’, adding a thematically facetious “generative” style

    Other projects

    cooking, posting, finished reading the manual of pico-8. in addition i made a stack of personal randomization cards, as a method of navigating life without control

    Books

    went to several bookstores. new york’s nice. there are so many book stores.

    Other

    • now, after swans, ive been listening to michael gira solo projects. i get the impression he might be a violent man
    • also: stevie wonder, secret life of plants. imagine an alternate world where he kept this style up, avant-light synthesizer songs, pop-style blue gene tyranny… i loved this album lots
    • went to some live tv recordings
    • still playing zelda. i dont wanna stop lol. its very good

    2025-9 weekly post

    big week: apartment searching and (unfortunately) terrible anxiety upswell. .˙. week of low creativity

    Writing

    a week of revisions mostly. did line edits to my Ponce de Leon story and typed last week’s revisions of my first cigarette story up. both stories were fun to return to

    also, got interest back from an agent for Kossler!, two or three weeks after i decided to give up lol. i submitted the whole text to the agent, i hope they want to represent me!

    no the girl revision this week though, gotta get back to that

    Other projects

    none lol, see above

    Books

    nothing much of interest, slower week. started reading about DBT, for reasons obvious

    Other

    • listened to lots of post-2010 swans
    • listened to a lot of Tom Scott lateral podcasts
    • played a lot of zelda
    • caught up with severance

    2025-8 weekly post

    Writing

    only revised ‘The Girl’ one day this week, as I’ve been doing some story revisions for submissions: my cigarettes and my ponce de leon story, both of which (i noticed this week) pull the same sort of sudden shift into the absurd to explain abstractions. i’ve got techniques

    in submissions: sent my hans story in, reading a few for another place. i actually recorded where this week, but i dont know if its like verboten to post this in the semi-public world of the blog. but i am, as they say, working now

    Other projects

    little of note. i was sick this week, as an excuse

    Books

    of interest:

    • finished Solenoid, by Mircea Cărtărescu, after months. i have opinions abt that

    Other

    • lots of sickness and Zelda
    • watching the new severances now

    2025-7 weekly post

    Writing

    another 4 day week for ‘The Girl’; i got sick at the end of the week. we’re at the point now of highest violence now (i think), or at the very least when her personality vanishes. this is the heavy shit

    in addition:

    • wrote more Kossler! on my phone
    • revised “Hans” for a submission. i haven’t sent it in yet, but i will this week, assuming i feel less sick soon

    Other projects

    • reading the pico-8 manual, for fun and pleasure

    Books

    of interest:

    note: i oughta get to work on puttin my reading log here, as well in public. one of these days, huh

    Other

    • saw “His Motorbike, Her Island” as the Japan Society near the UN on Valentines day, a movie by the director of House, it was nice

    2025-6 weekly post

    Writing

    still on ‘The Girl’. only wrote 4 days this week, got into the next step of disassociation. we’re into the nightmares, the soldiers, the bars

    in addition:

    • finished a new intro to Kossler on my phone. its nice to write in the notes app. i havent done so in a decade
    • another submission. im trying to submit on thursdays now, but i’m still not recording (oops). maybe later i’ll have details that count

    Other projects

    • made a really stupid game at a game jam
    • still writing on the ants. had a very busy week outside the home, so i haven’t done much

    Books

    dipped into proust some. lots of short stories, of course. again, busy week, right. right? right?

    Other

    Nope! I played lots of zelda instead of reading. Tears of the Kingdom. i am in an imagined world, wondering around. i am chilling it the depths. im really enjoying the game, for only being pointless

    also went to a david lynch drag tribute. someone did a striptease as the lost highway mystery man (10/10, transcendent)

    2025-5 weekly post

    Writing

    continued revisions this week for ‘the girl’. disassociation and derealism’s begun. in essence, i worked on the part where its just a line of uncomfortably sequenced short stories with only hints of delineation, so of course i love these parts

    in addition:

    • messing with more heightened kossler fantasy voice. is it tending too bolaño or bernhard? perhaps. but that just leads to more joyful revision.
    • submitted somewhere. tbh i forget, cause im not back to keeping records yet. hope they adore me

    Other projects

    drafting out new devlogs for my ants, often away from home and on my phone, in lines for bathrooms

    Books

    of note:

    • started JG Ballard high rise, hell yes
    • back to Solenoid (taking in a section again as audiobook). by the time i finish ill likely have been reading for six months
    • read a couple tiny indie comix

    Other media

    • Ethel Cain never made sense to me till Perverts. Now I will defend her to the death
    • i liked this talk
    • saw Dan Deacon perform at a ballet; it was so damn good that he wasn’t even the highlight

    reading, 2025 week 4

    of note:

    • read Paul Celan for the first time. holy shit is that the shit. beautiful nonsense that becomes, within two lines, suddenly devastating

    writing, 2025 week 4

    last week, i started revisions on my little novel of derealization, The Girl, and continued on it this week. been doing it mostly during lunch breaks, for about an hour, and took the weekend off. our girl just made her way through the third door. things will soon unravel

    also: attempted an intro paragraph to reimagined versions of Kossler! in my head while walking to the library, then on my phone in the cold outside, struggling to move my fingers right. lets hope its worth it