4/5 stars As with most short story collections, there are a couple I really loved and a couple I could have done without. That’s just the nature of the format, …
Month: April 2019
The Minorest of Gripes
The beginning of a Slack correspondence does not need to start with “Good Morning” or “Hi jess” or “Hello, can I ask you a question?” Slack is an informal medium …
Getting the hell out
I gave my notice. It went fine at first. My boss was super gracious and I wondered if she’d been body snatched. Then, of course, 10 minutes later she pulls …
Babby’s first python package
https://pypi.org/project/betterreads/ It’s finally live! I detached the fork and decided to take on this project as my own a little over a month ago, and I’ve finally done enough to …
Morning invocation
A friend of mine has given me a prayer/mantra/wish to get me through these last few standups. Please grant these men the strength to not say every dumb fucking thing …
Death in the Afternoon
Purportedly a creation of Hemingway’s. Pour 1.5 oz of Absinthe into a coupe glass. Top with 4.5 oz of Champagne. Or that’s how it’s supposed to be served, anyway. If …
I am being personally called out
A day off meant we could do things we’d always meant to do. Like go to the Botanical Garden, the Frick Collection, or something. Read some fiction. Leisure, the problem …
Why are Easter buffets so sad?
It’s become something of a tradition for me, my aunt, and my uncle to attempt brunch on Easter. The cocktails are uniformly great. This is, after all, Chicago. But the …
Trying to be responsible
This is a total stream of consciousness braindump about the fact that I’m bad at money. An issue I seem to run into again and again is that I wait …
Learned How to Glitch Art Today
I’m fascinated with finding methods of digitally destroying or erasing my own face. I attempted to databend some other photos using Audacity sound editing, but mostly managed to break them …