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week two is done. i no longer feel like front flipping into a wood chipper. we're all going to make it laddies. rereading my week one diary, i realize i made it sound like i wasn't having fun and that i hated the other fellows. to the contrary, i'm really…

first week of plzdontkillus is done. the first day i watched everyone's videos and concluded that i need to kill myself expeditiously. before this, i was basically at peace with the idea of short form video, and felt that the crusade against it is a moral…

i forgot how funny this film is. it really illustrates that there's something awesome in being a repellent sadsack.

asserted without evidence. i have been tinkering with a mental model of taste as it relates to creating works of excellence. here are the explananda over which i'd like my model to emit adequate explanatia: rarely do prodigious consumers of art become gre…

I'm currently organizing some thoughts about blogging productively.

i don't like this movie. the acting sucks. low energy, absurd world. imbued with theater-kid soul. slow and dull and not particularly sophisticated, in the way joel edgerton's films are. here's what i look like when i watch Pig (2021): and here's a Pig (2…

The Cow is an film about a poor villager who goes mad after losing the only thing he loves.

for the last two years i have been mentalizing quite a lot, and i now can confidently conclude that this habit has not expanded my empathy. to the contrary, i've seen what's going on in people's minds, and i don't like it. i am, in some ways, a highly sym…

Okay, I'm back home in LA, returned from Inkhaven #2.

Derek Parfit was a genius, and you should read his books.