Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
Just worked out at Smart Fit in Mexico City. Squats 185lb 5x let’s go lol
If you want to start a writing habit, don’t start with essays. Write paragraphs. Shaping and editing essays from a cold start is quite hard. Instead, practice riffing paragraphs over a huge range of ideas. Publish them all somewhere, but don’t blast them.
I mean this is a shockingly common attitude, actually: You watch made-up people on TV or the internet getting dramatic or romantic or audacious or yes, obnoxious, and you say, “Mmmm, I love this person!” But in your everyday life, no one is allowed to break out of a tiny conversational and behavioral cage, or you start to feel unsteady.
Heather Havrilesky • Speak
maybe this is why we watch so much tv
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
I don’t believe in living in the moment. I believe in living slightly off to one side of it
Venkatesh Rao • The Importance of Not Being Earnest
355594162.pdf
timesmachine.nytimes.comA degree of relaxation is necessary to have good ideas because one doesn't have them so much as receive them—and one cannot receive anything with clenched fists.
Justin Murphy (cath/acc)x.comNarts (ending story probably?)
We’ve switched up the bedtime routine recently – reading books is now the last thing, not the first, which means first up is brushing teeth and doing a pee pee. He does not want to stop playing though so I tell him I will have to move his body if he doesn’t wanna go and I count to three. On one his body jumps like he’s
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