Jacob Siefring

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Hey, wanna see a weird Mars rock?

Here you go

it’s entirely possible it was WB, but who knows

the solution to growing illiteracy?

pulp magazines.

a few weeks ago while walking along the Ottawa River I spotted this small flying watercraft. never seen anything like it before. maybe a custom build? anyone know what this sort of vessel is called, if it’s commercially available or likely a one-off?

beautiful

We are briefly
in the world —
doubting

still mulling the implications of “the skull of northrop frye” up here in canada, tbh

prints instantly in B/W like a polaroid, but using thermal printing on receipt roll paper. i think abt 35 USD?

i think what you might want is the Arnssien Kids Camera, which is all of the above (digital/analogue, cheap, novelty toy for kids)

The mind a kind
of daunting absence

the visual motif on the dustjacket of stag beetle, baseball, enormous nail, & mountainside in superposition only seems appropriate when you have reached the end of the book. i couldn’t fully appreciate it until i had; a nice touch

finishing tonite fielding dawson’s ‘the black mountain book’ (croton press, 1970), a memoir of his time there from 1949–53. quite a wonderful book which evokes for me bittersweet memories of brief times of communal living, whether band camp, a visit to warren wilson, vermont, camp at glen helen, etc

i can’t shake the feeling it’s a vice, one that inflicts damage on me. yet i don’t know if i could, or should, ever quit. maybe it’s one of those double-edged swords

i know it’s very low down on the list of things to hate, but i’m not going to try to rank or be exhaustive, that way lies folly. escooters & ebikes, fucking stupid. i know we won’t all agree. just putting that out there

did the buddha hate? his latter-day disciples will probably tell you he didn’t but i’m going to bet that he hated a lot of dumb shit

what i learned tho is that criticizing things on social media does not really achieve any of my goals. i’m not sure hating them achieves any of my goals either (unless: “dude, i’m expressing my subjectivity”). yet, here i am: a hater

even tho i’ve learned to kept my mouth shut i have not stopped being a hater. there are just so many things to hate, it probably can’t be helped

of course. i’ve been quite curious abt it since i have been seeing yr posts from it for several yrs

at the first post, i thought “ah, yes, very reasonable”; at #2, “oh no”

shadow of a doubt (hitchcock), more or less

the music man!

we call it “the mirror stage”… sad

listened to it in the car today. it rips

a new Public Enemy album in anno domini 2025. incredible. (including songs like “sexagenarian vape” & “ageism”)

“Sometimes I get the feelin I’m in some kind of work of art… and me gettin up to speak at this here town hall in Vermont, and you all listenin so kindly, are all parts of a whole… arranged just so in a symbolical way by some damned pervert who don’t care what we suffer…”

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i think this is precisely why i hate writing things & try to avoid it all costs

in related news, the wild mood swings continue

no one today could resist my rugged charm