The relationship I have with most social media apps.
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/04/03/the-relationship-i-have-with-most-social-media/
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Today’s general mood was sponsored by James A. Reeve’s reflections on his visit to Stonehenge.
❝ Some people said they felt a shift in their energies and auras as they stepped into the ring of jumbled stones, and I wished like hell I believed in such things. If I have an energy field, it’s probably something like television static. ❞
How science fiction can shape our reality
❝ You cast a story into the future and you have thereby displayed your theory of history. How does change happen? What do we do now to make a better future? That reveals your worldview, your ideology, your political stance, your theory of history. Science fiction is always just laying that right out on a table as long as you decode the story. And one of the joys of reading science fiction is, of course, you’re always decoding. Like, what is he saying about right now that this story is representing by its future cast? It’s a game that we play that teaches us interesting things for the real world. ❞
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/04/02/how-science-fiction-can-shape-our-reality/
Longform Podcast #481: Hanif Abdurraqib · Longform
This podcast interview with Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the more inspiring things I’ve heard on the craft of writing — from a writer — in quite a while. Highly recommended.
❝ I learn from hearing my elders tell stories. There’s an inherent knowing of yourself as a vessel for narration who also has to—is required to—hold the attention of others at all costs. And that’s essentially what I’m trying to do. The broader project of my writing is almost a constant pleading of: Don’t leave yet. Stay here with me for just a little bit longer. ❞ *
Related: Hanif’s Lost Notes: 1980 podcast series for KCRW was excellent.
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/04/01/longform-podcast-481-hanif-abdurraqib-longform/
Each month, I compile a BNDCMPR playlist of my favorite songs found that month on Bandcamp. Some may say my taste is eclectic and ‘out there,’ and I embrace that by including sounds throughout my spectrum of interests. I also spend a good bit of attention to the sequence so listen from start to finish if you can.
I just finished March 2022’s 8sided Selections and you can listen to it here.
If you’re catching up, here’s February’s Selections and January’s Selections.
Enjoy and support the artists + songs you love.
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/03/31/each-month-i-compile-a-bndcmpr-playlist-of-my/