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alex guenther
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teacher and writer living in bangkok. poetry at https://alexguentherpoetry.wordpress.com/
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same with most ishiguro novels, except the buried giant and that overtly kafkaesque one
probably the third or fourth time i've read william gibson's "pattern recognition", and i had no memory of the entire second half of the book.

i think it's because i almost always read gibson's books like i used to read stephen king in middle school: in a single late-night sitting. er, lying
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It’s the 30th anniversary of Sailor’s “Fude de Mannen”!
I use it regularly myself.
By the way, the name comes from a Kansai dialect expression, but it doesn’t really have any deep meaning—just a funny one!
#fountainpen
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Where we are as a country
The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.
what if a house were... a cybertruck
this is really messing me up b/c his cadaverous face reminds me of lurch or the brother on everybody loves raymond, so i assumed he was 7 or 8 feet tall
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this part of town was very crumbling and sad before and during covid... it's heaving with tourists now. glad for the locals, but... i kind of don't want to come here any more #sonnet #poetry
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Happy birthday to Johnny Carson (1925-2005), the dreamy subject of Austin Allen’s elegiac sonnet from 32 POEMS. “Carson”/“stars in”… The things @austinwriting.bsky.social does…
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definitely can reprogram the brain, compared to which losing the sense of taste is child's play!
arrgh students have shown me things like that too!!! it's even more upsetting when people think you can "interview" AI. it's like interviewing google translate! it's not a thing! arrrrghhhhh!!!
my wife's been a good example - she's into journaling this year & has repeatedly able to "turn her frown upside down" by, for example, drawing a cute depiction of the A/C water drop that hit her in the face while sleeping... the power of art!
i started to feel bad for the people who i assume are, like, romanian teenagers just trying to share their love of coffee but got a furious anti-AI screed from me, so i think i need to step back from there lol
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Suffering also inspires drinking, temper outbursts, and ulcers. So, well done picking your poison!
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have to stop looking at the coffee sections of reddit because people keep asking AI how to brew coffee and posting the advice / results
a multimedia mashup with a lot going on under the surface
i read! i'm... i think "nonplussed" is the word... by things like the expense of rat euthanasia. i really felt like i had nothing to add to that area! (except sorry that's happening, i guess)
same except it was two different people
lol was writing so fast in the coffee shop i accidentally did the octet abbaabbb ah well let's say it was a bold formal experiment
i realized recently that during college i thought HD and Æ were the same person. like my brain just saw two initials and never inquired further into the matter. both excellent! but not the same person!
yep! it's coming in handy with a lot of other things. i really can't believe i went nearly 50 years without knowing how to create a habit
i think i wrote more poetry today than any one day in my life. five petrarchan sonnets, two blank verse "sonnets", a bunch of haiku... thanks to extreme anxiety about a leaking water pipe and leaking air con that both struck my apartment on the same day. i guess suffering inspires art lol
heh only started at age 44 during covid lockdown, before that i could never finish any writing because i just couldn't figure out when to do it!
we just saw jibun techos in a store here in bangkok for the first time this week - does look like a useful layout but we don't use them as planners per se but more like journals - wife has got a million ways she fills every hobonichi page with art and stickers so i think we're in too deep now! :)
this part of town was very crumbling and sad before and during covid... it's heaving with tourists now. glad for the locals, but... i kind of don't want to come here any more #sonnet #poetry