Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
I wish I could search entire Sublime ecosystem by type of card (was wanting images)
One of the mysteries of the world is in this. I was in a little grocery store in New Orleans a few years ago talking to Abby, when a voice from around the aisle corner said: “Is that Mills Baker?”
It was my sixth grade teacher, whom I hadn’t seen in more than twenty years. I expressed shock —my appearance changes a lot... See more
Mills Bakersubstack.comThe world is burning, and there is no time to put down the water buckets. For just an hour, put down the water buckets anyway. Take your cue from the bluebirds, who have no faith in the future but who build the future nevertheless, leaf by leaf and straw by straw, shaping them into the roundness of the world.... See more
Turn your face up to the sky. Listen.
Katie Hawkins-Gaar • A Chance to Start Anew
from Margaret Renkl’s The Comfort of Crows (c/o Katie Hawkins-Gaar
This dialectic is muddy from the get-go, of course. It’s a version of the more familiar hipster trap: over time, the marginal labor of the bohemian experimentalist and taste-maker is swallowed up by the smug cartoon of the in-the-know consumer clone. But the near inevitability of this process also suggests that the first hipster was already part of... See more
Erik Davis • The Weird and the Banal
a comedian's take on the whole 'weird' thing and
that last line
care is cool - https://sublime.app/collection/care-is-cool - could write an essay about this?
The point of these lines is clear. In the old days, craftsmen did not cut corners. They worked carefully, and they took care with every aspect of their work. Every part of the product was considered, and each was designed and made to be exactly as it should be. These craftsmen did not relax their thoughtful self-discipline even with respect to... See more
Harry Frankfurt • On Bullshit
