Neck deep in margarine Here may enter a new catchphrase for unbridled joy, to supplant the old crass one about pigs in shit
#75 💞 The yes and the no of the EDGE 🧗 In brief 🩲 * Journal: Mandatory common sense; languaging without language * Practical: Living on edge; changing to something less changey * Art: Imaginations stitched together * Quotable: AI skepticism dose From the journal 📖 We took a shortcut to get to my son Neko’s touch rugby game and found ourselves driving down a narrow
#74 🪽 I’m gonna PHOENIX ❤️🔥 Welcome to the Without a Hitch 👍 newsletter: hilarious true stories of failure + practical methods for success. I made all the mistakes so you don’t have to. 🫠 In brief 🩲 * Phoenix: What the hell happened? * Journal: Pushed when you shoulda pulled * Practical: Nearly witty insurance assurances * Art: The ashy bird manifest
#73 ✈️ More than one WAY to sell a cat 😻 In brief 🩲 * Tardy: A word on extreme lateness, and the reason for such * Journal: Two slinky cats, to the highest bidder * Practical: I can only land one plane at a time; also: constellations * Art: Pretty candy bird Tardy ⌛️ This newsletter is VERY LATE. If you noticed, and this has irked
#72 👓 FAILURE, plus the opening and closing of a home 🚪 In brief 🩲 * Journal: The interstitial, life-and-death dramas of an open home * Practical: Failure is an option * Read: Framed, even more thoroughly than before * Art: Snails, mutations, immaculate poise From the journal 📖 We’re selling our house, which is a stressful form of theatre. It’s not just the pressure of
#71 🛻 DRIVE on through to the other side 🎾 In brief 🩲 * Journal: The ugliest faded tennis ball of a car you can imagine * Read: Never build the Homer car * Practical: Procrastination is a beast * Art: Psychedelic tick-tock-apocalypse From the journal 📖 We did it. We brought the ugliest car in the world: the 2016 Toyota Sienta. Now, to be fair:
The timer is sacred Procrastination is a beast. But it can be defeated. Train your willpower so you can work solidly for a fixed period and actually finish things.