I went to the Sunday Nobody fake ID pop up and needed a name that was both very serious and completely absurd to fit the bill. Florine Grassenhopper is a play on the Stettheimer sisters of art legend and the weirdest insect on earth. She's an alter ego I slip into to remember that I can be proper and whimsical, serious and joking, beautiful and have serated violin legs.
May 21, 2025
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I want to be the person who comes up with the John/Jane Doe alternatives. Michael Motorist?! Stunning. Wendy Sample?! 10/10.
May 4, 2025
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2 recent ones I made up:
Beef Bonebroth, a bully
Eczema Proneskin, a damsel in distress
May 16, 2025
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I feel like I've been more curious about life lately because I have been hearing some really fire names. Someone in my town named "Loony John Franklin Toon" was arrested. My Grandpa told me about his friend named Ernie Blankey. These people are out there and we can find them and love them if we want.
Jun 21, 2025
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No screen Sundays. If I want to listen to music its CDs or radio. If I want to watch a movie, no I don’t. If I want to see a friend, I will make plans with them on Friday or Saturday to meet up. As a result, I read more, write more, and sit with questions like “did Citizen Kane‘s 50 year winning streak in the Sight and Sound critics choice survey end in 2012 or 2022? When did Stephen Merritt come out? Whats the etymology of Whitsun?“
This is something that I have practiced off and on for many years but I’ve been doing it every week since December and I love the way that it just allows me one day of true freedom and rest.
Jan 22, 2025
Mar 3, 2025
My calendar this year has 52 of these week at a glance pages but I don’t think that way. So, I've been inspired by Ross Gay’s Book of Delighs to start recording the little moments and sensations that bring me joy throughout the day. An analog pi.fyi, if you will.
heres some of what I have so far:
- Waking up to the sound of my upstairs neighbor‘s footstep. It sounded nostalgic. Felt like company.
- Strawberry jam
- feeling tender for strangers: their lips, nail colors, their small wrists. Thinking of all the lives we hold gently.
- A young girl bought an LP at the bookstore just before I left. She stroked its cover with love
- Green tiles —the mint shade always makes me think of Jancie
- Charlie’s little bop and punch dancing to some German language punk
- lunch with Katherine, curry Brussels sprouts
- small talk at the photo studio. The photographer's brother was named after their dad, stole his identity, bought jet skis.
Jan 13, 2025