Culture Commentary and Miscellaneous Musings
This poem came to me as the first line and then I built on two words: lonely and single to really double down on the theme of loneliness. Secondary theme or word association here is plants.
I’m tentatively putting this in a series of poetry I’m calling Fragments. I want these to be short poems about a single topic.
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Continue reading “Review: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna”A middle-aged white woman smiled warmly at them from behind the till. “Lovely afternoon, isn’t it?” she said, abiding by that ancient and most sacred British law of only ever starting a conversation with a comment on the weather.
Chapter 12 of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Last year in a blog post titled Recommended For You I talked about how I prefer human recommendations over ones made my machines. Today I saw a post shared by Nick Heer over on his blog about music discovery stagnation which linked to this post by Daniel Parris which made think about what I said in that blog post and how it applies to music discovery.
Continue reading “Fighting Music Discovery Stagnation”If you missed the last reading list, you can find it here.
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Continue reading “Review: Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris”Starving the peasants into the factories is the classic narrative of proletarianization, the creation story of the industrial working class. California didn’t have the factories of a Manchester, UK; a Lyon, France; or a Lowell, Massachusetts, but the state took on a factory orientation towards what it did have, which was gold and land. Unlike so much of the world, California did not see capitalist economics evolve step-by-step out of feudal property relations. Capital hit California like a meteor, alien tendrils surging from the crash site.
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