Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
Susan Mossman Taylor on Substack
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For Susan Mossman Taylor Forever Ago
Susan asked for a collection - here’s her original prompt
What is this business about “shopping, typing piece, dinner with E, depressed”? Shopping for what? Typing what piece? Who is E? Was this “E” depressed, or was I depressed? Who cares?
Joan Didion • On Keeping A Notebook
why do we write stuff into our notebooks?
Who cares? - good question to ask in an essay about this piece
Tooooools.app
tooooools.app
Understood this way, “common sense” might better be called a “communal sense” to distinguish it from what usually comes to mind when most of us hear the phrase. Under these conditions, to know is to share a world. A world in this case is more than just the things out there. It is a community of interpretation.
L. M. Sacasas • From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities
“What makes them want to see it again? What would make them go home and talk about it? Even if it was just’ ‘I just saw the weirdest thing - a comedian who thinks he’s funny and…isn’t.’ I thought, ‘there’s something there.’ the
These days many of the best online social experiences happen in very small-scale environments. A few friends, a loose microcommunity, a cozy corner with the right vibes.
It's in the air, thick with it, even, in certain places — the cozyweb, the indieweb, the slow web; tiny internets and run your own social; independent creative communities, local... See more
It's in the air, thick with it, even, in certain places — the cozyweb, the indieweb, the slow web; tiny internets and run your own social; independent creative communities, local... See more
Towards Small-Scale Social
Steve Balmer goes nuts re: Windows 1.0