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Intro
After not listening to music for a long time I decided to start an album-listening project. In March 2026 I decided to listen to 200 albums. I want to be more-or-less random. I’m not exactly sure how to generate a random album, so I’m going to let it develop organically. The blog is to keep track of what I’ve listened to, and to jot down a couple of notes. Let’s get started!
Ah, He's Sick by Yugo Limbo
I’m unfamiliar with Yogo Limbo’s work but was reading this interview in The Comics Journal and clicked on the link. I love it!
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"If they don't have that Innsmouth Look ... throw them back!”
I LOVE these posters
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Art I Like
Years ago I wanted something in my work office to bring me joy. So, I bought a print from R. S. Connett. I love my giant framed print! It brings me happiness every day. Today I bought a limited edition shirt. The image is “Neurochaos”. https://rsconnettart.bigcartel.com/product/neurochaos3_shirt Here’s the print I have hanging in my office.
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List of Christmas Movies and Shows We've Watched Between 2019 and 2023
235 titles in alphabetical order. Includes movies and TV shows/episodes. I’ve removed the ‘A’ and ‘The’ at the beginning of titles. This is the complete list to accompany the post Christmas Movie Watch. Christmas movie watching season begins the day after Thanksgiving and ends January 6 (twelve days after Christmas). 1000 Miles From Christmas (2012)12 Christmas Wishes For My Dog (2011)12 Dates…
Christmas Movie Watch
I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it on this blog but I have watched A LOT of Christmas movies. (I’ll append a partial list at the bottom of this post.) And, on Friday, I’ll start to watch more. I haven’t always been this way. There was a time when I shunned everything Christmas. Just not my vibe. So, how does something like this happen? Our Christmas movie watching started in 2019 but it’s…
Replenished
The combination of the beginning of the semester, two hurricanes, and an anxiety-provoking election season left me feeling I was done with My Gothic Body. However, I’m now feeling much refreshed and have started back up on the writing. Looking forward to the long weekend. The zero draft of My Gothic Body is about 10,000 words. I’m going to add another braid about representations of masculinity…
We must lay up our supplies – of love, care, trust, community and resolve – so we may resist the storm
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
— James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name
What is 'abderitic'?
Immanuel Kant argued that there are three possible ways to understand human progress.
“Retrogression toward wickedness” is moral terrorism, “perpetual progression toward improvement” is eudaemonism, and abderitism is “a perpetually changing upward tendency and an equally frequent and profound relapse.”
Kant argued that humanity was on a perpetual progression toward improvement. Abderitism, the idea that humanity (under a loving God's direction) builds up civilization only to tear it down, was the most morally reprehensible way to understand human progress, according to Kant.
“This opinion may well have the majority of voices on its side. Bustling folly is the character of our species: people hastily set off on the path of the good, but do not persevere steadfastly upon it; indeed, in order to avoid being bound to a single goal, even if only for the sake of variety they reverse the plan of progress, build in order to demolish, and impose upon themselves the hopeless effort of rolling the stone of Sisyphus uphill in order to let it roll back down again.
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“…It is a vain affair to have good so alternate with evil that the whole traffic of our species with itself on this globe would have to be considered as a mere farcical comedy, for this can endow our species with no greater value in the eyes of reason than that which other animal species possess, species which carry on this game with fewer costs and without expenditure of thought.”
Personally, I think he nailed it with this idea of the Aberitic. I don't share Kant's faith, and I don't think we have any greater value than any other animal species.
Abdera is a real place. In the western classical era Abderites were the foolish rural counterparts to the cosmopolitan, urban Athenians. Notably, Democritus, the laughing philosopher, was from Abdera. Cicero described Abdera as a republic of fools, and it became short-hand for the classical Greeks for the folly of the self-satisfied and petty-minded.
As Woody Guthrie wrote --
"we build our civilization up / and shoot it down with wars"
-I didn't find a suitable link to the essay, but the title is “An Old Question Raised Again: Is the Human Race Constantly Progressing?”
How did that whole 'Gothic year' turn out?
It turned out OK. I have a ton of notes, read a bunch of classic Gothic novels, closely annotated Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and started incorporating it into a longer work about my relation with my body. I’ve started piecing it all together into a longer project and with any luck I’ll start sharing chunks of it in the next couple of months.
Well, that was unfortunate
I want to do something with all this malevolent energy burbling up, might as well blog! This round I think I’m going to shoot for quantity over quality. And, I want to do more short posts about the random stuff bouncing around in my skull, and less pointing to stuff on the internet. Don’t forget to stay hydrated, move your body, get away from the screen. If you don’t meditate or do yoga, now…
Participatory design research, documenting the experience of Gainesville local drag performers
Stumbled across this as I was looking for stuff on autotheory and pluriversal design.
Abstract: This case study documents the process of research, identification, and cocreation —with members of the drag community— a visual ethnography of Gainesville's drag culture. This study documented drag performance as an integral element of public-facing queer communities and took place during 2021 and 2022. Drag GNV aim is to contextualize the importance and nuance of drag as an activity supporting LGBTQ+ individuals and communities and as a publicly visible format for sharing elements of LGBTQ+ community identity with broader audiences. This research focused on conversations with the queer community (performers and allies) and centered reflections on drag venues as safe spaces, to build on the oral and visual history and promote the drag art form. The project weaves together past and present stories and contributes to the collective creation of safe spaces for queer people.
Do you speak Delvish?
Well, no. Because you can't.
Preliminary Notes on the Delvish Dialect
