notes & things | 9/12/2024

fauxtography experiment, 2024

Sometimes, the weeks vanish and fold in on themselves. These last couple have been busy, with trips to McHenry to the drive-in, the cool, mildish weather of September, more films (including delightfully bad 70's zombies, religiously-inspired comic characters, domestic terror about horrible in-laws, and a 20th anniversary screening of Sean of the Dead. )  Last night we also caught Book of Mormon on tour, which was of course, hilarious given my long time love of South Park. We have a bunch of theater nights planned this month and through the fall, including some Shakespeare coming up and a couple of my personal favorites (Les Mis and Into the Woods.) Otherwise, there have been pumpkin spice flavored things (coffee, muffins, late night ice cream), glorious breakfasts cooked by J, and the usual things of life like plotting my fall wardrobe switch out, Halloween costumes, and my autumnal decorations.  

I have been otherwise keeping my head down and working furiously in writing and editing things when I'm at home--less creative stuff like decorating and DIY pieces, but with occasional snippets for the mariana series. I have also turned my thoughts to getting a final draft assembled for RUINPORN to begin combing through and getting ready for proofing and design, but am waiting to finish a few more delayed DGP chaps before really digging in toward the end of the month. I also have some fun ideas for new journals and paper things over in the shop I would love to launch this fall. 

We were out Tuesday nigh, but caught a recording of the debate later in lieu of our usual late night streaming (we are a little ways into Breaking Bad, which I am watching for the first time.) It went about as suspected, with a whole bunch of WTF moments and both Harris and the mods having to keep things on the rails. It is alarming that many do believe the nonsense from the far right wholeheartedly, though I think its becoming less and less whatever your political leanings. Or at least I hope so. 

broken places

 

It's September, which means new month, new zine project filled with poems and fauxtographs  You can read BROKEN PLACES here...