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Around 2375 BCE in Egypt, the 96-year-old political advisor Ptah-Hotep was ready to retire. With approval from the king, his son was named the successor of the great vizier only on the condition that the senior leave him adequate instructions on living a life according to Maat. Of the many wonderful maxims included within this ancient text, #40 is unquestionably my favorite. As a party girl who is dating another party girl, Ptah-Hotep’s advice always reminds me to listen to the light heart that emerges from such practices of celebratory indulgence — whether that be screaming lyrics front row at my girlfriend’s band (Frost Children) performance, dancing with my sister all night at an I Hate War party, or pulling pranks in the green room at Baby’s All Right with the Kerwin brothers.
Mar 28, 2025
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Last night went exactly as planned. About 70-80ish people in one space together, dancing enjoying the sounds from the Dj’s and each others company. Love was in the air.
Ethan and I spun our best set yet (I think) and we even paused at 12:00am to wish Adam a Happy birthday - he was anxious about the attention at first but he quickly overcame and began to smile as we all sang to him.
We made our way to Winnie’s around 2:15 and did exactly as I said - Stella Artois, vodka cran and I think someon had a modelo(?) we sang Take it or Leave it by the strokes and closed the night out with Radioheads Creep (duh!)
Celebrate with your friends any chance you get, celebrate life, celebrate promotions, celebrate love.
Mar 9, 2024
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there's something elevating and unifying when we get outside of ourselves with others, when we let our guard down, when we stop giving a damn about our dignity
I suspect that most people want to let their hair down, want to let go of the uptight facade, want to move past the performance pressure to be perpetually cool
But it's hard to be the first one to do it, so you've got to show people that it is fun and okay to do this
Having a themed party seems like a great start
Adding in some group activities, I don't know, just making this up right now, like a "funny walks contest" or bobbing for apples — I mean, I've never bobbed for apples, but what does bobbing for apples do: it gets you wet, awkward, looking silly, and that gets us to where we want to be: having unadulterated fun, memorably, together
Mar 31, 2025
Get your people together to talk, dance, drink, eat, play, cry, laugh. Doesn’t matter. Just do it together
Mar 16, 2025
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The iBeer app is great to open when you want to performatively chug a pint of 2010 iPhone aesthetic beer in semiotic solidarity with your friends who are interested in collabing consumption rituals and the club. When you download iBeer (or even a sister application like iCigLite), you open your phone chakra to the possibility of an iPhone Samsara.
Mar 28, 2025
The first time I encountered a human body in the earth was at an archaeological excavation I dug at in Transylvania. Delicately cleaning the dirt off of another human being who lived 600 years before me left me in genuflecting respect of the great loves that led to this person being so gingerly placed within a wooden coffin, supine and facing north. My entire career trajectory has been shaped by holding each of the individual fingers of this very loved person’s hand. If you’d like to get involved with an archaeological dig, you could try shovelbums.org.
Mar 28, 2025
Daniel Bejar’s short publication is a series of true back and forth emails between himself and a scammer pretending to be Aisha Gaddaffi, the daughter of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. As he responds, pretending to be the scammer’s brother, the exchanges between the two become a genius exploration of identity fraud. The book even comes with its own pop-up scam emails advertising get-rich-quick schemes and body-enhancing pills.
Mar 28, 2025