Category: craft

Yep

to put it differently: it takes a while to learn you don’t get points for degree of difficulty

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Reading Glasses

This happened yesterday. Those of you on Instagram, maybe it’s . . . archived? That an insta-thing?

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Cargill’s Horror list

Hundred percent agree with all of these. When I teach my horror courses, all of these bulletpoints (and a few more) are where we land:

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What’s the World Like After Corona?

This has been kind of a default question I keep getting asked lately, which makes perfect sense: it’s the question on ALL our minds. And, my default answer’s pretty much that I don’t know. But I can guess. Except—quick qualifier—my guesses have nothing to do with economic recovery or collapse, second waves, foreign travel, whether there’ll be empty office complexes, whether basketball teams will play only for the cameras, whether concerts will …

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Pages Help?

Anybody have a workaround?

tried stuffing this on YouTube, but both the MOV and the MP4 of it went blurry. and of course it’s too big for Twitter. so, here, though this player doesn’t seem to have a full-screen option, sorry.
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Unrevised

Old article-thing here. It originally ran on The Cult back in . . . sometime between 2005 and 2008? But The Cult went away sometime the last year or two, so I had to dig this up from a cache, copy and paste it here to sort of save it:

—SGJ

The biggest lie I tell myself about revising is that I do it as I go. You’ve heard this, right? I don’t think I’m coming up with anything new here, anyway. And, it’s a seductive thing to believe-to want to believe, at least. And th…

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