it’s all fake

how many hours per week do you scroll through instagram or your social media swiper of choice watching beautiful people shake or flex their bodies for you or throw amazing basketball shots or do backflips off cliffs, and how many times do you pause and think is that real? - the number of times for …

nearing 600

in mid 2019 i posted about how i'd read only 400 books in my lifetime, according to what i have been able to remember and track on goodreads. at some time this year that number will reach 600. +200 books in six years is, at first gut reaction, terrible. but really that is more than …

books

i've been reading them. i have not updated my list of books here in a long time. i have not written about a book in a long time. but i have read them, 40 last year. the most interesting and exciting and new of them all were probably the ones by juan emar. i say …

I have stopped posting

it was, as most things seem to be, short lived. the truth is i got bored. there was no interaction or reaction, neither on substack nor on reddit, so although I got more views there than i ever have on a single post here, the result was much the same. void. posting a story on …

fiction, appearing, look, there it is

I have decided to post. the words have been written and sit dead but not decomposing because not even bacteria is consuming them. I have decided to post, where? not here. does anyone read wordpress anymore? I don't know. The engagement is low. The likes and comments do not exist. It used to be I'd …