Category: Reflections

  • Intestinal Catastrophism

    Intestinal Catastrophism

    When the drugs that made you sick are the drugs that make you better You, or someone you know probably has problems with their digestive tract. Not to get too personal about it (we’re friends, right?), but pretty much everyone these days either has GERD, IBS, bloating or some other combination of symptoms that is…

  • Am I Having A Good Day?

    Am I Having A Good Day?

    Lately, I feel like I’ve been consumed with a single question, one that works its way into the different cracks and fissures in my life. That is, am I having a good day? This question seems to confront me constantly, and while it’s almost certainly a thorny externality of my prolonged unemployment, I still can’t…

  • Diagnosing Lore-Brain

    Diagnosing Lore-Brain

    I’m sorry, its terminal We live in an era of massive self referentiality, of things looping back on themselves over and over and over. This is, to my mind, destabilizing and upsetting in a way most people aren’t totally equipped to think about or explain. There is a sense of an ever-closing wall of possible…

  • Mission Statement

    Mission Statement

    What are we doing here? A while ago, I made a substack account because I wanted to motivate myself to write more, and to share that writing with more people. I did a little bit of writing on it, and am mostly pleased with what I made. It was a good spread of different things,…