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What a weird and terrible week.
Some not-terrible things:
I learned about the postal carrier retirement community in Florida from a co-worker. It was founded by the union and restricts dogs because many letter carriers don't care for them, understandably. It's in the middle of nowhere as far as Florida goes, but is near Lake Wales and Olmsted's gardens at Bok Tower. When we went to Bok Tower in 2018 they were playing a 90's PC gaming suite (including Hearthstone) on the carillon.
I explored some small businesses around Baltimore. Atomic Books in Hampden had a copy of McSweeny's Quarterly Concern, which looks like a trapper keeper:
And the inside was so well-designed with lots of inserts and details:
Framed between two bookcases at Atomic was this, and I find something new to un-pack on every re-read:
At work I've bopped along to PBS Kids songs about patterns and pleaded with a middle schooler to not refer to any clay tools as "shanks." Hung out with friends and ate a king cake on Epiphany, but found no baby and used a random number generator to crown our king. Burned a Christmas tree. Took ours down to burn later and cleaned.
My studio is mostly assembled with found and free shelves and furniture. Time to carve some lino and print some letterpress packaging. The presses live in my basement garage which is freezing, so I can work in here nice and toasty and just have to bundle up to print.
I am really staying offline because my nervous system can't handle it. Something big has shifted and we have to be ready for a long haul of it. Leaving this work by Jenny Holzer for you and for me:
Links:
Mopy, the Virtual Pet that was an Environmental Disaster via Rhys Winne's post via 32 bit cafe
Livejournal Moods!!!! - I can't wait to incorporate these onto this website somehow. I was obsessed with using these in high school and I'm so glad someone kept them.
This YouTube Video in defense of seal flags - an interesting rebuttal of the One and Popular Take of flag design that changed my mind a little and I always like that.