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sitting on your grown up couch in your grown up apartment with your younger brother you‘ve only seen twice a year (if that?) for the past five-ish years. ideally you will have just gone to a hardcore show together in a church rec room in the middle of some nothing suburban town in new jersey, adrenaline pumping as you watch people joyfully bludgeon themselves and each other, slipping spinning and flinging limbs - all in good fun. you never usually get fast food and you never usually order delivery, but because this is a rare occasion, you order the wendy’s, you ignore the price, you flip on futurama. it is also an episode poking fun at fast food. it is 1:30 in the morning. he gets set up with blankets and pillows, you leave him with the remote. after these years in the marines he now prefers to sleep in jeans and a t-shirt, and at this point you’ve stopped bothering him to do otherwise. he’s comfortable. you make plans to go shoot guns tomorrow, and this time he’ll pick up the tab. you’ll have dinner at your parents’ before his flight monday. in the meantime, you both sit on the couch watching cartoons and dipping fries into a Frosty, legs draped over each other, cracking each other’s toes
Jan 28, 2024
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its nice to just exist with him sometimes, he’s like the brother i never wanted
May 22, 2024
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please. i’m so bored. we’ll watch arrested development. we’ll eat tacos and french fries. we’ll drink beer and wine. we’ll talk about life and the sky. we’ll step outside on the porch once the sun sets, and stare at the stars. i’ll learn your favorite stars; you’ll learn mine. we’ll take a shot. maybe two. the night will feel endless.
Feb 25, 2025
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like passenger princess but where u sleep on ur friend’s couch/air mattress for days in a row, and in exchange for the hospitality, let the dog out, unload the dish washer, and most importantly put the streaming services to good use. different from house sitting bcus they come home from work every night and u get to walk to the grocery store and then make dinner and catch up together
Feb 12, 2024
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the fewer the better
soon i will switch my browsers away from the info-eating tech giants and no one will find me (except when i want to return and be found)
Nov 19, 2024
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for example. at this juncture of my life i am a brick wall. even a fortress, maybe. all obstacle. windows up high, no doors. something is happening inside, deep in the tower’s belly. the soft thing in the antechamber is glowing. it’s hardening like petrified wood. and no one would ever know, because it’s safe there. peaceful. no ego-drunk conquering lords come barreling in, no sad pilgrims, no tax collectors nor gamblers nor drunks nor pretty stable boys with ringlets enter here. the wall is impermeable and unscalable. every armchair explorer that has tried to climb it has given up, released and fallen into the waters below, more welcoming than the altitude. they, like most, were not ready for blisters. the brick wall is a happy wall, a technology without failures. press your face against it, hot from the sun, victorious
Nov 24, 2024
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money is tight this month, so i‘ll be making no further plans. i am telling myself that i will spend as little as possible. i will use my time to practice the solo creative tasks that gnaw away at my brain all day anyway, to journal and reflect, and to struggle to establish something of a routine again, until i can emerge feeling that i have a handle on myself (for now). sometimes it’s fun to be restrictive, reclusive. especially in the winter. during stretches like these, i like to think of myself as a hermit or an ascetic monk.
Jan 31, 2024