jeepers, gang!

The reason why McConnell is currently ambiguously dead is because KY law was recently amended to state that a vacant senate seat must be filled by a special election, but previously, the duty to fill a vacant senate seat was by appointment of the current governor. The present KY gov is a Democrat, and has the means to challenge the special elections rule in the state supreme court, under the argument that it is unconstitutional to governor's power as outlined in the KY state constitution. So given the risk of a Dem appointee who would become an incumbent to challenge, or a special election race in the middle of the Mamdani Endorsement DemSoc run on congressional seats, McConnell will remain in quantum superposition between life and death until there is no longer a risk of his republican power being challenged.

art is not my strong suit but this is my best recreation of what i saw when i opened the window. i have to emphasize that she was supermodel levels of gorgeous

so. if we wrap back into Hegel (recognition of self through the other)… then, the world you think you understand can take on new meaning when anything external at all is introduced.

and so, every interaction with an outside force makes you become a new You in this same way. every bit of sensory input, information introduced, fluctuation in the external world’s state of being. they all in turn change and create and shape You. because you’re constantly reconciling this environmental data with internal data, even if it’s as subtle as your body’s involuntary thermoregulation systems kicking in as the temperature in a space fluctuates.

and that’s what the whole of the plot of Hannibal turns into, over time, right? Hannibal and Will taking turns playing with intentionality. they’re always provoking unexpected changes in each other, which drive them both to act on impulse and instinct.

becoming isn’t just a word that got thrown around for the Hannibal script, btw, i think that’s important to understand for what i’m trying to say here. it’s an actual philosophical and metaphysical concept. always best communicated by the ancient Heraclitus quote:

The worst types of cookbook:

#the overachiever: make this very time consuming ingredient from scratch even though it'll end up tasting worse than store bought