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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
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i think I could be the one who goes around leaving broken spoons and teeth and stuff in the ground for archaeologists to dig up in a few millennia
Sep 6, 2024
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I’ve been volunteering at a Victorian cemetery since 2016. We plant era-appropriate flowers and plants in the grave of people who have been dead for 100-200 years. It’s such a peaceful, meaningful way to remember the long dead and interact with nature. also I’m certain I have ghost friends who are coming through for me on the astral plane.
Feb 16, 2024
how did they die? what kind of person were they? who still misses them?
all things we should ponder about the dead.
Mar 17, 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
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
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