Dear LiveJournal, There’s an old tweet from horse_ebooks I think about a lot: “Everything happens so much.” And it really does. How do you write about everything, when it happens so much?
Jane--I love thinking about the different places that almost instantly feel like home. I have a few--my hometown up near Portland, my sister-in-law's house in San Francisco, downtown Phoenix in the Coronado neighborhood where a few of my friends live now and where more lived in the past--including hanging at The Main Ingredient across from Alex and Christine's old apartment. It may sound weird but Louisville has felt like home when I've visited--Alex and Christine and all of their great friends and Alex's warm and welcoming family and just the vibe of the town itself have embraced me.
Thanks for sharing how you're feeling and for everything else you've shared here.
aren’t we lucky to have many places that feel like home — and to share one of em? (as far as i’m concerned you’re part of the louisvillian fam!) thanks for reading, colin 🧡
Jane, I Just finished reading your HCN piece on substation attacks and accelerationists. Posting here because? I was prepared for hopelessness, but the ending was really something. I imagine you spending weeks and months diving into all that vile hatred, and making the decision to end with Greenwood’s story of hope. Thank you!
Matt! So great to hear from you. Thanks for reading my piece! I'll be honest - I really struggled with how to end it without being too Pollyanna about extremism, but if the ultimate goal of accelerationists is chaos and hopelessness, hope felt like a step away from that. Been listening to a LOT of Chappell Roan to recover from those dark parts of the internet :)
Thanks for Sequencer. And weird Al. And especially for Erica Berry.
I struggle with this a lot. I want to put more navel-gaze-y stuff in my essays, but a voice keeps telling me that "men don't do that", which we don't, because we're afraid of our "... work being dismissed as navel-gaze-y". This is how I wind up being the only guy in every one of the writing workshops I've taken! And how 95% of the writers I follow are women. I'll figure it out.
Jane--I love thinking about the different places that almost instantly feel like home. I have a few--my hometown up near Portland, my sister-in-law's house in San Francisco, downtown Phoenix in the Coronado neighborhood where a few of my friends live now and where more lived in the past--including hanging at The Main Ingredient across from Alex and Christine's old apartment. It may sound weird but Louisville has felt like home when I've visited--Alex and Christine and all of their great friends and Alex's warm and welcoming family and just the vibe of the town itself have embraced me.
Thanks for sharing how you're feeling and for everything else you've shared here.
aren’t we lucky to have many places that feel like home — and to share one of em? (as far as i’m concerned you’re part of the louisvillian fam!) thanks for reading, colin 🧡
Jane, I Just finished reading your HCN piece on substation attacks and accelerationists. Posting here because? I was prepared for hopelessness, but the ending was really something. I imagine you spending weeks and months diving into all that vile hatred, and making the decision to end with Greenwood’s story of hope. Thank you!
Also, Chappell Roan!
Matt! So great to hear from you. Thanks for reading my piece! I'll be honest - I really struggled with how to end it without being too Pollyanna about extremism, but if the ultimate goal of accelerationists is chaos and hopelessness, hope felt like a step away from that. Been listening to a LOT of Chappell Roan to recover from those dark parts of the internet :)
Thanks for Sequencer. And weird Al. And especially for Erica Berry.
I struggle with this a lot. I want to put more navel-gaze-y stuff in my essays, but a voice keeps telling me that "men don't do that", which we don't, because we're afraid of our "... work being dismissed as navel-gaze-y". This is how I wind up being the only guy in every one of the writing workshops I've taken! And how 95% of the writers I follow are women. I'll figure it out.
Thanks for this, um, navel-gaze-y piece!
everyone’s got a navel! and i would love to read your navel gazing, john :)
I'll see what I can do!