This sign would benefit from either reconsideration or unpacking, or perhaps both.
Use No Water
Body electric
Category: field notes
News, essays, reviews, surveillance
Municipal Admonition
Boom doom
No antiquated music playback devices
Heavenly
The sound inside the Mission Dolores Basilica is pretty great.
Scratch Pad: Phone, Bot, Beast
From the past week
At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts, I’ve found, serves as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.
▰ Yeah, at this point I’m more likely to email or text a friend than, out of the blue, call ’em (versus scheduling time to do so in advance), but I did just call a friend out of the blue … because for some reason my iPhone (temporarily?) couldn’t send texts to his Android phone.
▰ It often seems like every bit of advice the Wordle Bot provides can be rewritten as, “If you’d chosen a word closer to the random word that is the answer you would have done better.“
▰ Current status:
▰ Finished reading nothing. Wrote a lot. And judging but the paucity of posts above, I also wasn’t on social media much.
My Aesthetic in a Nutshell
Or more to the point, in a stairwell
Sometimes you take a photo and the result looks precisely as you saw the subject in question, precisely as you saw it with your mind’s eye, precisely as you might have hoped to describe it to, or show it to, someone else. No edit, no filter, one take.