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Photo from my daughter, illustrating that her and her partner are using their lockdown time well. I am fried. Wrote a 3000-word story document yesterday. Very slow moving today, which is not ideal, as I have to make starts on …
I start with a situation, usually. Say I want to write about terraforming Mars—then I need a terraformer, a person opposed to terraforming, a political radical, a Machiavel, a builder, a psychologist, etc. The French structuralists spoke of characters as …
Here’s a thing I didn’t know: Open Google Maps Enter Street View. Tap anywhere on the image to find information about the place. Select “see more dates” and scroll through historical imagery of the location dating back to 2007. City …
Post-Graffiti Abstract Artists From Poland @ Mirus Gallery, SF Longread: I thought metamodernism had gone away, but here’s Venkatesh Rao thrashing around in it. Newsletter goes out on Sunday. Status: eyestrain, and I need to land an outline today.