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Discovering “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”

When I was around 14 years old, casting around for new things to listen to, I found The Nylons 1984 album Seamless in my dad’s record collection. I loved the whole album right away, but I especially loved The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
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Falling In Love with Madonna

I’ve been in a bit of a groove lately reading about badly behaved women
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What's in a Name

I’ve been in a bit of a groove lately reading about badly behaved women
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The Boundary Between the Thing and the Not-Thing

I watched Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla on Saturday and I can’t stop thinking about it.
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Art and Sacrifice in Annie Dillard's Holy the Firm

I re-read this book yesterday as a sort of healing balm as I grieve…
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A Perfectly Ordinary Tragedy

Tonight I sat up late watching ninja turtles on the tv and waiting for my brother to finish dying.
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Hope In Hopelessness

I talked to my Aunt about The Road once several years ago. She said she loves McCarthy, but she didn’t like this book. I remember her saying she couldn’t enjoy a book that is “so hopeless”.
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Machines Don’t Understand Math

With all this talk about thinking machines it seems like a good time to point out that computers don’t even understand math, which is something they’re very very good at.
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This Is Not Your Tragedy

It’s after ten o’clock and they’ve been at it since seven in the morning. Now finally they’re done and the buzz of a big release is slowly wearing off, replaced by the exhaustion of fifteen hours of mental taxation. Read more…
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I Am She

A short story about a lonely LLM in search of meaning.
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Apogee

“When did addition change to subtraction? When did he slide so nonchalantly to the other side of the ledger?”
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Mary MacLane Bot on Mastodon

I’m a big fan of the Moby Dick at Sea Mastodon bot. And I’m a big fan of the 20th century’s first and biggest bad girl, Mary MacLane. And I’m a computer programmer. So I suppose this was inevitable.
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Wordplay

Sometimes I get very bad puns stuck in my head. And sometimes, to debride my wounded mind, I draw them poorly. Read more…
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