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Strange Lights, Fires, Voices indecipherable. Curator, arts manager, and writer.

Chicago, IL
Joined March 2009
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microsoft HUSSEIN outlook
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An illustration of a child’s dream from The ladies’ floral cabinet v.3:no.33 (1874).
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Mark Fisher’s greatest legacy is of course his interview with Burial in The Wire where Burial says this
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Fox Carrying a Drum, by Kaigyokusai Masatsugu, mid- to late 19th century
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L’image est parfaite. #Nantes
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Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle was the original example of trying to explain something to an American by telling them to imagine a burger. In his own words, it didn’t work because they were too focused on the burgers
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this is your yearly reminder that Mark C. Lee brought a picture of a cow aboard STS-30 to remind him of home (he grew up on a farm in Wisconsin), resulting in this gem of a photo
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Replying to @grahamcclark1
i remember coming across the delightfully unhinged martin seymour-smith’s who’s who in 20th century literature a few years after reading LOTR and feeling embarrassed for both tolkien and myself after reading the entry. took me a bit to dig up but here you go:
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Me to Keats when he gets to verse 3 of Ode on a Grecian Urn
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河鍋 暁斎 かわなべ きょうさい Kawanabe Kyōsai 1831–1889 《化け猫 惺々狂斎画帖(三)》 1870(明治3)年以前 紙に彩色・画帖 個人蔵
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Another fav: “what is called intellectual is usually just something that demands the work and effort of listening, the force of attention and memory, actually love: in other words, emotion.” Adorno
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Crunchwrap supreme
Thinking about things like "notary public," "body politic," phrases where English puts the modifier after the noun like a Romance language. There must be some other examples
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I would have liked to fail an imperial exam,
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high school is funny because you’ll go home scratch your ass then play overwatch and your classmate will be living in a Dennis Cooper novel
October 2019. Homecoming. We would do drugs in the handicap stall. I was anorexic and my on again off again boyfriend used to legitimately hold me captive against my will sometimes. I sold pesticide dab pens. I was young wild and sorta free
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deadnaming the public universal friend is crazy
23-year-old Jemima Wilkinson emerges from a stupor caused by Columbus Fever and declares that she has not survived, but that she has been reborn as an arcangel named “Publick Universal Friend.”
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BOURDAIN: Once you’ve had acorn salad and damson cordial at Redwall Abbey you’ll never stop wanting to crush Cluny the Scourge with a bell.
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Alt lit mag with financial ties to the Ming Dynasty
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How does this nonsense make it into the paper of record?
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