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33 Theses on Sheer Thursday a Week Early

A list of things noticed today (including several kinds of magic)

I had forgotten how tossing a frisbee can feel like dancing

Death pays a visit to the beach

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

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