Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
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ReNoted: Marginalia, or 5 Ways to Write in Your Books
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3. “Every work of art is a synecdoche, there’s no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can’t think of an exception.”
–Charlie Kaufman
–Charlie Kaufman
Britton Perelman • Just a moment...
Indeed, as Bruno Viard has written in his book Houellebecq au laser: La faute à Mai 68, “Far from being a banality, the parallel traced [ . . . ] in Whatever between economic and sexual liberalism is totally unusual, and [ . . . ] constitutes the matrix of the Houellebecquian vision” (2008, 41, my translation).
So, as I was saying, I was swimming by the cliffs. Every day, walking up and down the coast I found new places to dive in. I got interested in high diving—something I had been too much of a coward to do as a kid. I felt a childish excitement for water. The kids on the beach would look at me, whisper, and laugh. That is one of the pleasures of... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Almost Everyone I’ve Met Would Be Well-Served Thinking More About What to Focus On
leaving LA and
Notes
Hide and seek in bed, eyes cover face.The poof thing where his face should have been scaring me.
Shushing him. The privilege of that. Being allowed here in this most intimate of space. The space that will soon not be accessible to me not really because he will want it for himself or begin to fight for it himself as he becomes someone that I am
NPCs are part of a genre you might call MMCCM: massively multiplayer crowd-controlled media . Its closest precedent is Twitch Plays Pokemon (2014), where ~1.2 million people simultaneously sent commands to a single Gameboy emulator (unbelievably, they beat the game). TikTok brought this video game dynamic to social media. They replaced the main... See more
Michael Dean • Thank you for the roses
- All creation is defiance, what came before was created, you must defy it to make something new, and then you must defy yourself to make something new again.