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The internet is a way to place everything at risk every second of every day.

Archer Thornton, The Digital Plague.

Self: the elixir of modernity, damaging everything it touches.

Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.

In order to put something into words you must know where to begin.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

Psychology: a shallow, silly explanatory model from the twentieth century that is still widely applied.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

September 15, 2019. To gain a better understanding of the word ridiculous, I watched a network newscast from three months ago.

Reginald Boyington, Dear Dreadful Diary.

The world would shift—and not in a good way—if there were no recordings of Charlie Poole’s Milwaukee Blues.

Logan Nygaard, A Treatise on Amusement.

“I’m sure they are good at what they do,” said Johnny. “And I am sure that they are also good in a more general sense. I am speaking, of course, about government workers.”

Hollis Beddoes, Counting the Magpies.

“When I am making flower arrangements I like to start with what is called a Martha Stewart. That’s three ounces of Scotch whiskey poured into a jelly glass, and then down the hatch.”

Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.

Design: a specifically modern type of shallowness.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

December 10, 2021. Today, the straightforward description of social reality is simply funny. The way jokes used to be.

Reginald Boyington, Dear Dreadful Diary.