Mel Zog
@melzog
Mel Zog
GRANDSTAFF It's kind of true what they say; that everything in life, every business you get into, every place you go, is really just high school. Politics, all of it... it's all high school. That's why I think it's still relatable, genuinely.
(From a conversation on Daria, in Notebook #6)
What happened to high school drama now. I'm thinking about Mean Girls too, and how it really reflected the politics of that time (queen bees and wannabees)
Immediacy or the Style of too late capitalism. Something happening with our mediums.
That is, every time you write, She could hear or He could see or They felt , you are describing looking at someone while they undergo perception. You do not need that extra step of noting that someone is noting something. Where did that come from? I believe that extra step was inserted by cinema. You are so accustomed to looking at someone looking ... See more
against casting tape fiction
"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."
- Ray Bradbury
JEWELS GOLD on TikTok
vm.tiktok.com
Idk.. the whole tiktok account is interesting
Dakota on Substack
substack.com
Hinge notes as an anthropological project
When Alex came back from the dead, it was the summer of all the heat waves. Every time it got above 95 degrees, an alert on our phones told us to turn off the lights and keep our refrigerators closed. Something was wrong with the grid and they couldn’t or wouldn’t fix it. Sometimes they came down my block and tinkered and then left. There were blac... See more
Solar Flare
love this introduction