Asynchronous lifestyle

Accumulation

Posted: 2021.12.04

The things you don’t say accumulate - screenshot of my horoscope iOS notification

The things you don’t say accumulate.

On Some Emily Dickinson Shit (Fascicles in a Drawer 2022)

Posted: 2021.11.27

This site now aims to be the contemporary equivalent of enigmatic handmade publications hoarded in a drawer.

On Virtual Coffee and Mormons Who Play Animal Crossing

Posted: 2021.11.27

I’m curious how Mormons¹ who play Animal Crossing: New Horizons are responding to the new café.

Your art is more important than your audience

Posted: 2021.11.25

Your art is more important than your audience - screenshot of my horoscope

Your art is more important than your audience.

– so says my A.I. / algorithmically generated horoscope today, the notification popping up while I was mid-contemplating just how to curate collections and microthoughts such as these on this website, and whether to continue to do it just for myself or reconnect somehow with a social media network for the possible benefit or irritation of unknown others.

New Longer Thing: Writing the Great American Email

Posted: 2021.11.18

Writing the Great American Email

(Published this new ‘longer thing’ in the Features / Longer Things area of this website.)

Writing the Great American Email

Posted: 2021.11.18

The last rays of the sun transfigured the water tower, the freeway overpasses, and the tops of the pins on the bowling alley sign, as I sat at my computer in an emptied office. I hadn’t noticed the sky darkening as I tapped away on my keyboard, compulsively shift-tabbing the cursor, re-reading, revising, substituting words, deleting phrases, and reorganizing paragraphs.

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Listening: Mesita - Empty Island

Posted: 2021.11.09

THINGS I DIDN’T POST DURING THE PANDEMIC - 01

Back in the spring of 2020 Mesita was writing, recording, and releasing the music of the pandemic in realtime, but I didn’t post anything about it at the time because I wasn’t really posting things, and I feel bad about that.

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''felloff''

Posted: 2021.11.07

I was doing so good at posting something every day here in nowhereland but then I got sick and stressed out and distracted, and I fell off.

Starting again for November.

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''sickdays''

Posted: 2021.10.26

I’m home sick with a cough/cold that isn’t COVID but seems contagious, but I’m behind on a lot of work, so I’m using what little creative energy I have to take care of a few things at work, rather than compose missives for or update the architecture of nowhereland. Other than that, reading or sleeping.

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Replace 'photography' with 'Facebook'

Posted: 2021.10.23

Annotated detail from my snapshot of a quote on the wall of the Niko Krivanek: dear sally, love mom photography exhibit in the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Saturday, October 23, 2021.

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''AASL21updatday2maybe''

Posted: 2021.10.22

Update on AASL, after day two: maybe I should start playing the edu/library twitter game again. Maybe I should try practicing a bit of the synchronous lifestyle again.

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I AM ASYNCHRONOUS LIFESTYLE 3000

Posted: 2021.10.22

I. Goodbye Facebook II. ASYNCHRONOUS LIFESTYLE 3001 – I. Goodbye Facebook So I am finally doing it - deleting my Facebook account. Not even Kate DiCamillo can stop me this time. I just have to stay clean by not logging in ever again for 30 days, as the last of their slimy hoops left for me to jump through. I drafted a long, awkward letter to my Facebook friends that I intended to post on the platform a few days before going through with the actual deletion.