There’s the legend of a blues musician who meets Satan at a crossroads and sells his soul in exchange for the ability to play guitar. Using a machine to write books or make music for you is a devil’s bargain, and if we still read the old stories we’d know this always ends badly.
White boys ran an entire cocaine racketeering operation on a college campus, with pledges chopping and bagging drugs. Meanwhile, Black students are presumed criminal for wearing a do-rag to class. White supremacy depends on who gets presumed criminal & who gets presumed innocent.
The burning of the library of Alexandria is incorrectly remembered as the biggest destruction of information while they hide it was actually the Crusades…history has a funny way of repeating itself I just wonder what we’ll blame it on this time instead
Toni Morrison said, “Read a lot, be willing to write, to rewrite. Go to the library. Expect rejection, yet keep writing… a lot who say they want to be writers, just want to be stars.”
“Be as serious about the craft of writing as a skilled carpenter is in making a chair.”
Someone said their personal recession indicator was running out of their stash of plastic grocery bags 😭
He said he used them all & realized they weren’t being replaced because… he stopped going grocery shopping.
Now THAT is an economic indicator
Every time I sew, I get to remember my absolute disdain for the people who destroyed Joann. I don’t want to wait 3-7 days for elastic, I want get in my car and drive to a place that has too bright lights, clutter everywhere and the sweetest ladies at the cutting table.
Call me lazy, but I don’t wanna side hustle, second job, part time job, to make content, none of that shit. I work full fucking time & I should make enough money to cover my basic needs.
we need to bring back the obsessive, almost maniacal drive to create great art and serious literature. literally drowning in fast food art and disposable books…literal cultural gluttony unfolding before our eyes