Carter Weeks Maddox @ Chronotope Perfume

If you’re wondering how the @Carter Weeks Maddox discovery sample set made me feel, I clearly have a lot of feelings on the subject. But I tell you what: no perfume made me ugly cry before. Just… wow.... TikTok video by thehermeshippie

(Pulled this from www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AVPGg7/)

It is a profoundly moving thing to see someone who I do not know engage with my work with such vulnerability and openness. Perfume is such an intensely connective, misunderstood, arresting, and largely overlooked artform. I’m so grateful that I get to call it my work.

Anyway fuck that blatantly racist dogshit

There are 11 federal holidays. It’s taken us 249 years to rack them up. If we held steady, then assuming there are currently 260 working days per year, it would take us ‘til around the year of our lord c.2992 BCE for us to obtain 1 federal holiday per each working day. It’s quite soon! Very soon!

I fully appreciate that National Review’s primary audience doesn’t know who Arendt is. And I understand why any group of conservative hacks would go out of their way to ensure their followers never read her work.

But this lede is still one of the most batshit bits of writing I’ve read all year.

(I really hate hearing it too, to be sure. Hate hate hate it. It is not good. Hurt people hurt people & etc & et al)

I’ve noticed over time that when queer, city-dwelling adults do this, more often than not what’s really occurring is that they’re venting pent-up frustrations with “home.” The grand bulk of us in this country were raised in rural and suburban areas of the Midwest and South after all. Red areas.

🙃 🙃 🙃

Honestly, that’s another reason for my listening to it: so I can clock it when I hear it. I probably could anyway; he’s, like, exactly 11% off, always. But being able to say “yeah I listened to EK fumble his way through that series of assumptions too, and—“ keeps me from yelling. 🫠

And that’s a muttered “stop,” not a doublewide’s “stoop.” (I shoulda typed “stahhhhhp.” It’s already 90* outside and the world is ending.)

I enjoy his guests more often than not. Sometimes I love them. (The Marilynne Robinson episode!! Asha Rangappa bulldozing over his “well, but—“s!) When I dislike or disagree with his guests, I’m usually still glad to have heard from them.

He can kick rocks otherwise! An ~AbUnDaNcE~ of them, even.

I nurture a pet theory about EK having received a special vaccine that makes him entirely immune to The Point™. I listen and go ugh and no and Jesus— and stoooop anyway like some sort of flagellant. I have no idea why.

Why on god’s ruined earth would I feel bad for that rotted <homophobic slur>?

I think so much less of any/everyone who I’ve heard try to argue that what makes Karoline Leavitt disgusting is that she’s married to & has a kid with a man who is older than her.

Their age gap isn’t the reason she’s disgusting.

Her being the lead propagandist for a fascist regime is.

Source?

Pretend the latticework / scoring isn’t a hot mess and just focus on the ear okay

The bad place showed me like four videos in a row that each contained actual, literal, very gruesome death! And I don’t appreciate an oligarch or needless panic attacks. Deleted immediately, hello to here—I am no longer a holdout!

Adding it to the list!!!!

(9 months later w/ no new information about the production that for all I know coulda gotten rightfully canned by now:) God yes it sounds so so bad

@alyssaharad.bsky.social did you see this news?!