Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
all-about-computer-love.glitch.me
all-about-computer-love.glitch.methis is a beautiful essay poem about the internet that’s written inside the dev console
What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
"To stand before" is an interesting phrase. It fuses space and time. Before is temporal, but the meaning is that you're "in front" of something. So if you're spatially "before" it, it implies that you're about to dissolve into it.
Look at how the writers you love are doing things, and then copy them. I’m such a believer in copying. When I was teaching writing, I used to say: “Leave off this paragraph of an Elizabeth Bowen story; write the next paragraph.” And they all thought that they were copying Elizabeth Bowen. It didn’t sound like her at all. It sounded like them, but... See more
Mason Currey • Seek funny leaps
how to write and
Focus on connecting the dots. Most social platforms - be it Stumbleupon (now Mix), Cosmos, Tumblr, etc- focus on "inspiring" by making us jump from stimulus to stimulus. What I'm really interested in is meaning-making platforms that help us engage with stimulus to layer on new thoughts, comments, ideas. Kind of what "quote retweet" did for Twitter.
Now comes... the CURTA comes in for the first time, no? I knew how in principle to build a machine for the hand in 1938. Naturally the moment that Hitler came all of this was put aside. First, we were not allowed to build any more calculating machines. Secondly, I said to myself, this is a living for me perhaps if I emigrate or something. Aside... See more
Curt Herzstark • An Interview with Curt Herzstark
What’s Google’s motive for providing free email? Is it that they just want people to be able to communicate easily with one another, or is it that a major advertising conglomerate with a twelve-figure annual revenue stands to benefit tremendously by consuming and using all of your inbound and outbound communication? In comparison, Fastmail is a... See more
Neatnik Notes · Motive as a filter
What is this thing we’re trying to be? I resist writing about masculinity just as I resist taking aspirin for a headache that has plagued me, on and off, all week. Even as I seek to undermine the social power that feminism has shown me I have—even as I apologize for interrupting, seek out the role of second fiddle, quiet my ego—my masculinity, in... See more