Playing Animal Crossing: New Leaf[note]It's as peaceful and as addicting as everyone says it is. If you have any Nintendo-device, buy the game. And if it's a Nintend DS/3DS — add me![/note] Playing Zelda: Link to the Past [note]I'm very surprised that the gameplay holds up.[/note] Actually trying to …
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, …
So, uh, the monthly film photography posts didn’t work out, did they? Also: So, uh, it’s 2020 now, I guess? And the first month is over? Wow. Life comes at you fast. Here’s my ‘‘‘‘media diet’’’’ for January. Movies (and TV Show …
I've become obsessed with film photography, but I become obsessed with things really quickly and tend to forget about them and abandon them equally quickly. I'm hoping doing these monthly posts will help me stick to the habit and continue taking pictures regularly. I enjoy the process and (more …
The climate or these things? [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sBBaNYex3E)
* I actually first loaded this film into my camera in November of 2018, but then I had to move, and my film camera lived in the middle of a cardboard box until I found it again in August. The first picture of the roll. My cat, Sherlock, in our old flat. Also the only picture from November 2018 on …
Tim Urban is doing something that I've wanted to see for a long time. He's taking all the problems we're facing today, and laying the foundation for helping us solve them. And he's doing it in a way that makes a lot of sense to me and appeals to me. He's first forming a "language" and a way for …
[www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd-wbQJZs5w)&t=969s
[www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5xpc5XS0Bw) i self-published a poetry book that sold 20,000 copies (a self-pub how-to) Some great tips about self-publishing + comparing self publishing and traditional publishing + a discussion on the benefits of print-to-order and doing an …
There’s a thing I have for people who take something really simple and then overthink the living shit out of it. [note]It’s been put into words better than I ever could in this video right here. Which isn’t to say that I won’t someday come back to it and give it my own little …
I’m reading Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. I’m 6 chapters in, and I think they’ve done more to help me accept the “shitty first draft” and the “just write every day” mantras better than the tens of other books and hundreds of other articles that tried to beat me over the head with them. Her opening …
Update: Literally this same day ToDoist released an app update that significantly simplifies the integration with Shortcuts. It will only get you to 70% of this shortcut, but for 90% of people that will be more than enough. I refuse to delete this post, though, cuz I had fun writing it so ¯_(ツ)_/¯ …
Let’s get the important part of this review out of the way first: this is a 10/10 action movie. Good. Now we can dig in. I’m the kind of mediocre white guy who took a film class in high school and decided to make that the cornerstone of my personality. I’d like to say I got over it quickly, but I …
I haven’t been feeling well over the past couple of days so I’ve been spending some time surfing the web and going down internet rabbit holes. Here’s an interesting one. It started off with watching Adidas skate videos: …
twitter.com/kanye_the… I can’t think of a better description of the discography of Kanye West. Honestly. I’ve read hundreds of articles about his discography and career, watched countless “Worst to Best of Kanye West” videos, done every Kanye Madness bracket, and this …
[embed]youtu.be/FXdYSQ6nu…[/embed] Everyone’s (least) favorite social network has been a very useful tool for bamboozling the US to elect a certified idiot as president. The fact that there’s ties between aggressive pro-Trump advertising and Russia has been written about ad …
There’s an endless amount of writing apps and services that try to make our (my) life easier. Spell/grammar check tools, research tools, and hundreds of “organizational” apps for keeping track of your writing, incoming payments, etc. etc. But none of that matters unless you put your words into some …
Tom Scocca's War on Smarm Tom Scocca left his job, so that obviously sent me down a rabbit hole of reading his work and seeing what people have to say about him. Honestly, the idea of a goodbye roast is both thrilling and terrifying. I’m not nearly as good a writer or editor as Tom, but I can only …
I turned 24 a month ago. I had something written that I was going to post on my birthday. It was about how this past year was probably the most difficult one in my life; how despite things being “objectively good” I felt lower than I’ve ever felt, mentally. And I feel like there might be something …
I came back from Sziget last week and then proceeded to be sick, celebrate my birthday in bed, and then celebrate my birthday with my family (which was a weekend full of capital D Drama). My nine-to-five has started and university is about to start, but I’ve told too many people that I would write …
Whenever you write, there’s always that mean voice in your head that keeps saying that you need to write much, muchbetter. Shut it up by reading some books and making small tweaks to your writing workflow (this is a 2-part blog post). These books are great, obviously. I’ve read them, I’ve learned a …
I obsess over things for weeks and then ignore them completely for the rest of my life. Here’s what I’ve been obsessing over for the past couple of weeks: Good Writing and Mary H.K. Choi Mary H.K. Choi After going on my street photography binge, I went back to read some more stuff about Daniel …
I obsess over things for weeks and then ignore them completely for the rest of my life. Here’s what I’ve been obsessing over for the past four weeks: Street Photography NSFW: There are some boobs about half way into this post. Daniel Arnold This dive into the Rabbit Hole began with a Vogue video …
To say I wasn’t hyped for the release of Damn would be to say nothing at all. I’m not a hardcore fan of Kendrick in the way I’m not a hardcore fan of any artist or band; I love good music, but I don’t go as far as watching every single interview and reading every single thread in their subreddit*. …
Get an Oyster card right away. It’s £5 and you can top it up for any amount you would like (don’t be fooled by the options that are given in increments of 5 in the machine). Take buses EVERYWHERE. You can generally get from any point in the city to another with a single bus + a 10–15 minute walk. …