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#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

Richard Allardice Apr 13, 2024

#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

Richard Allardice Feb 28, 2024

#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

Richard Allardice Jun 17, 2023

#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

Richard Allardice May 15, 2023

#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:

Richard Allardice Apr 21, 2023

#70 🌱 The sacredness of SECONDS 💣

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Tiny shoots can conquer concrete, with time * Practical: The timer is sacred * Read: I need to send you a message – where the heck are you? * Art: When landscape fails you, go full portrait From the journal 📖 While hitchhiking through Hokkaidō fifteen years ago, I came across a

Richard Allardice Apr 5, 2023

#69 🥱 The exhaustion of our METAPHORS 🕰

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Whichever way those old clocks tick * Listen: The grim new initialism on the block * Practical: I never met a metaphor like this before * Art: Coming full circle to “literal is best” * Update: This is Sparta From the journal 📖 We’ve reached that moment that I figured would

Richard Allardice Mar 19, 2023

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