If you don’t occasionally treat yourself to a day of exploring used bookstores, greenhouses, libraries, cafés, bakeries, botanical gardens, and quiet nature trails, then what’s the point of anything, really?
See I love boosters bc the success of Boots Riley is the success of all us weird blacks who want to make art that’s silly and pushes against hegemonic power.
The joy of owning beautiful things, a good knife, a proper linen towel, a jar of excellent honey, one soul encapsulating perfume, over many mediocre things. Doing this slowly across every domain.
fashion is art and art is political. the moss, the organic elements w the circuitry, the earth will overtake technology in a time where AI and the digital world are consuming everything. she absolutely ate this.
Man, rest in power to our people that died enslaved....Rest in power to our people that never made it out of Jim Crow...Rest in power to our people that didn't make it out of the War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration. Rest in power to all our soldiers
it's important to realize the alternative isn't running to another platform run by someone with their own agenda, it's finding community offline &in more siloed digital spaces
the golden age of open forum digital communication is over, maybe long over
Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:
“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.
“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.
“If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!
“Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”