Deciding what activities to get into in NYC this week in my free time. Also restaurants. Also shenanigans

I have begun a new creative project & have been reading lots of academic articles to educate myself on the subject, which has had the unintended consequence of reminding me how much I enjoy the deep expertise of peer reviewed writing. People mock the limited audience, but there's real beauty in it.

Big same. But Ripe is poetic, so I’m enjoying that. Not sure what to expect in the conclusion with books like this. Like, will she quit her crummy job?!? How can things possibly get worse.

More bleak I’d say. It’s about a depressed woman working in SF.

“It is a sea too cold to swim in, which means it is mostly for decoration or a nice place to cry.” - Sarah Rose Etter, “Ripe”

💀💀💀

It really seems to be his whole personality. A man who protests too much.

I want a Lovecraft edition where the narrator stops telling me how to feel about everything: "They were present in loathsome profusion, and I saw to my horror that they overlapped" becomes "They were present in profusion, and I saw that they overlapped"

I’ll be there!! Look forward to catching up, Mike 🎉

happy first (full) day of fall, bluesky

Aww, thank you! That made my morning. We should catch up soon. Love to have you guest on a MonkCast episode sometime