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Emerging from Moving Pains

The chiropractor pushed and twisted me every which way, cracking my back and neck in great cascades. You hold so much tension in your spine, he said. Frighteningly loud the release. I felt much better afterward, but during the night awoke repeatedly, with the sensation that the knots were tying

Alien in the City

Searching for a unifying theory of exploitative spacetime

Cactuses, climate anxiety and some dancing

The city is an endless strip mall and as the multiple lanes on either side gradually slim down into just two, one coming and one going, the flat openness finally begins to make more sense. The empty parking lots and oversized facades of store after store are replaced by the

This was a time

a strange little film about surveillance, high school, techno-utopianism, Bourne, and my borderline-erotic obsession with CCTV cameras

Grief and Protest

Hello dear, This is a real long one. It’s two letters in one, really, and I’ve split them up— the first part is an approximately 7 minute read (cw: death, grief) and the second is more like 13 mins (Brown, protesting). I’m planning on recording myself reading

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