pure, lucid, evil

Oh so Kimi's taught Bono the Italian anti-jinx gesture and apparently he's started doing it, we're gonna have everyone at the Mercedes garage just straight touching balls 😭

I think part of the problem is the "newsletter" branding, a conceit that interferes with the site's actual function. Substack is a blogging platform that refuses to call itself one, which is probably related to its failure to implement very basic blogging features like tagging and searching. Building a functional blogging platform is actually not a massively difficult technical challenge, and it's not something that ever needed a bottom-up reinvention. Why can't you just realize what your site is for and then do it well?

I had an idea of Lestat as the man of action, the man that could do things that I never could, the man who could make decisions that I’d never had the nerve to make, and the person who could go through life joyfully in spite of the questions that torment me, the doubts that torment me, the horror of death that torments me. (...) [Lestat] never really absorbs a tragic definition of himself for very long. He always comes back laughing at everything and just rebounding. It may take him a few years, but he always does it. I really wanted to explore a personality different from my own. - Anne Rice (source)

— Halldór Laxness, from The Great Weaver from Kashmir (Archipelago Books, 2008)  (via lesgardenias)

marni spring/summer 1998