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Edward Steed

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#yes but i hate doing dishes. worst chore.

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Talking Heads

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Yoshitomo Nara: Untitled (2008)

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Weiner dog wearing armor at the Michigan Renaissance Festival (2002)

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Mulholland Drive | David Lynch

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Mike Paré Mediterraneum, 2023 acrylic on panel 24h x 36w in

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“GUT LEVEL” | 2023

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kate bush fanzines

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every time i have to talk to my dad he either says something massively homophobic or i have to try to convince him to watch foreign films again

this time was the latter. and that’s another win for chloe beginnersmind

#he will still not watch foreign films #but i did talk him into watching Big Night starring tony shaloub and stanley tucci

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Hamburger.mp3

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i also feel this way about the conversation around walkable cities. like i think that half the people who talk up walkable cities believe that it means you’ll live in an outdoor mall where you can get boba and go thrifting on the same block.

in the suburbs near where i live, a lot of these faux downtowns started popping up: outdoor shopping centers with bridal boutiques and cake pop stores and fusion taco restaurants but no grocery stores, with apartment lofts built on top. they’re made for young professionals, not really for families. and you can only access them by car if you don’t live there, so you park in some big parking garage to walk around and pretend like you’re in a real city without the big scary things of an actual city. they’re very nice looking and have the visual cues you see in these mock-ups of the walkable city: flowerbeds and fountains, pedestrian areas, all of that. but it doesn’t fulfill the needs of most working people, and especially not working families.

like in some ways these conversations feel like neoliberal market solutions to issues of isolation and alienation. if we ask for walkable cities, they can build more of these strip mall + industrial chic studio loft chimeras and you can still drive 20 minutes to the nearest walmart for actual groceries.

looooove when everyone online starts talking about Third Places again because no one agrees on what it means or why we should care about them

why are there no third spaces? do bars count? do coffee shops? do malls? we should have libraries open 24/7! we should have an asexual sober queer café!

#also to be clear i think both third spaces & walkable cities are good and worthy pursuits! #i’m also cautious of how easily both are commodified and turned into like. marketing terms.

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looooove when everyone online starts talking about Third Places again because no one agrees on what it means or why we should care about them

why are there no third spaces? do bars count? do coffee shops? do malls? we should have libraries open 24/7! we should have an asexual sober queer café!

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Assortment of artworks on car hoods

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late 80s castleton green wool snoopy knit sweater