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One of my favourite books… 200 pages about a bloke riding the escalator up to his office. so many musings about everyday life, great vocabulary, detours, etc. just lovely and life affirming in its mundanity
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It‘s a silly book that takes place over the course of a single escalator ride. Baker does a great job of stretching the brief moment out with random reflections and long footnotes
Dec 3, 2024
135 pages of a shallow man giving his deepest thoughts as he prepares to go up to the mezzanine level of his office building via the escalator. Topics include extended treatises on shoelaces, paper towels in the bathroom versus air dryers, and plastic straw technology. A reverse-American Psycho satire of Reagan-era business that finds its disturbing moments in the narrator's most anodyne observations.
Jun 6, 2024
Lower east side, 2006. written long enough ago now that it feels nostalgic… like the cell phones are still being snapped shut. Apparently audiobook is narrated by bobby cannavale. keith mcnally included in acknowledgements. 8/10
Mar 10, 2024
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get da NTS app or whatever radio station u fuck with and just put that on in the morning. ya your brain might want stimulation before u can get out of bed but it doesn’t need instagram reels level shit. Just some fresh music is sometimes all u need
Feb 20, 2025
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separate your to do list into what does and doesn’t require a screen, and do those lists separately
means you aren’t constantly bouncing between a screen and the material world. Bonus points if your screenless list is completed without any music or podcasts or anything at all. You’re hiding your true power level by blocking all your thinking with consumption!!
posting a neoluddite rec on pifyi is basically reaction farming I’ve realised but I’m NOT that cynical I promise
Jan 15, 2025