Jen Myers

A General Theory Of Love 01

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

“Our society’s love affair with mechanical devices that respond at a button-touch ill prepares us to deal with the unruly organic mind that dwells within. Anything that does not comply must be broken or poorly designed, people now suppose, including their hearts.”

— Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon, A General Theory of Love

Rebecca Solnit The Road Made By Walking

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

“Hoping and walking have preoccupied me the past dozen years, but I had to travel a long way down those two paths to realize that they were the same path whose rule is motion, whose reward is arrival in the unanticipated, and whose very nature is in contrast with the tenor of our time, a time preoccupied with the arrival and the quantifiable. Many love certainty so much more than possibility that they choose despair, itself a form of certainty that the future is notable and know. It is neither. To despair is to stop walking, and to stop walking is to fall into despair or those depressions that are both features of the landscape and states of mind—the hole deeper than a rut.”

— Rebecca Solnit, “The Road Made by Walking”

Ginger Snaps Reviews

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Ginger Snaps is a film of towering importance in my personal canon. It’s all the themes I love most, wrapped up in a horror package straight from my own teenage era. This is an immensely satisfying video.

Tatsuro Kiuchi The Woman In A Black Dress

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Tatsuro Kiuchi, The Woman in a Black Dress

Jenny Odell Saving Time 01

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

“The world is ending—but which world? Consider that many worlds have ended, just as many worlds have been born and are about to be born. Consider that there is nothing a priori about any of them. Just as a thought experiment, imagine that you were not born at the end of time, but actually at the exact right time, that you might grow up to be, as the poet Chen Chen writes, ‘a season from the planet / of planet-sized storms.’ Hallucinate a scenario, hallucinate yourself in it. Then tell me what you see.”

— Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

The Samurai And The Prisoner

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Another presumed banger on its way from Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

Skill Nostalgia

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

“Nostalgia can be associated both with individual and collective loss. You can be nostalgic for your lost childhood. You can also be nostalgic for losses that were never yours: the murmurations of starlings that once filled the evening sky and have since thinned away.”

— Joshua Habgood-Coote on the radical reasons you dream of making things by hand

Gertrude Abercrombie The Whole World Is A Mystery

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery at the Milwaukee Art Museum, July 2026

The Gift Of Room Tone

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The gift of room tone.

Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass 01

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

“We need the Honorable Harvest today. But like the leeks and the marten, it is an endangered species that arose in another landscape, another time, from a legacy of traditional knowledge. That ethic of reciprocity was cleared away along with the forests, the beauty of justice traded away for more stuff. We’ve created a cultural and economic landscape that is hospitable to the growth of neither leeks nor honor. If the earth is nothing more than inanimate matter, if lives are nothing more than commodities, then the way of the Honorable Harvest, too, is dead. But when you stand in the stirring spring woods, you know otherwise.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants