Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
Suddenly, being on a laptop in the middle of a work day is an act worthy of someone’s attention. Maybe they’ll see the picture and notice more than just you at work - a decoration in your house, a new haircut, an alarming error in a SQL query you wrote. We’re suddenly funneling attention into the parts of our lives that we would never even journal... See more
Kushaan Shah • Can BeReal Deliver On Its Promise?
When not knee-deep in one of our editorial seasons, I focus a few hours each day on correspondence. Letter-writing is usually time very well spent and often a hairline away from one’s best writing.
Jonathan Simons, Analog Sea Review
"Sadness will not kill you. Depression won’t, either. But fighting it will. Ignoring it will."
— Brianna Wiest
— Brianna Wiest
I remember a fight I had with my parents when I was 15 or 19 – we were in the kitchen and I got so mad I punched a banana that was on the counter. It exploded and went everywhere all over me and the walls. We all laughed but not in a cathartic, all is great now way. Still, the anger was there, probably even more so for my parents who cleaned up the
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One way to make it easier to drop your grudges is to see how funny they look on other people. Alain de Botton flips out on someone who negatively reviews his book: “I will hate you til the day and wish you nothing but ill will in every career move you ever make. I will be watching with interest and schadenfreude.”
Alara • Review of Alain de Botton’s “Pleasures and Sorrows of Work”
this is so funny omg Alan De Botton commented on a dude’s post who reviewed his work badly I’m dying
Lore’s vibe is “all about high fantasy worlds and internet archaeology”, she writes to me in an email after our interview. The artistic backdrop to the website will serve as an aesthetic reminder of the “lost magic” that the internet has always had the capacity to nurture.
Jonathan Stein • Digital Frontier
“internet archeology”