Bad, bad news.

Hail the Xuanxian king of afterlife metal.👍👍👍

OnlyFans ( non-coercive but precarious performance in the aesthetic space during the pandemic)

Cishet folks reading gay sex / uncommon sex in lit e.g. between a ghost and a lady in A NY Story)

Ice bucket challenge

Pushups upto muscle failure

Music practice on bad days.

Meanwhile, the juggernaut is getting bigger, feeding off the precarious state of education and work.

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My very dear professor, time to stop being Zen and start blocking this volcanic ash. It only gets hotter from here.

Deep listening, in the context of art music (as an umbrella term) is as much a flow-state activity as making it, is—due to the whole-brain cognitive load. Students need to listen to not just the contour but the grammar as well.

We try group (5-6) listening of a 45-min piece, followed by analysis.

Also, unless the cast iron tawa is very seasoned, tomatoes tend to react with the iron and give a strange taste.

Cast iron pans have one issue with induction plates. Since things heat up *very* fast with induction, the cast iron plates may crack. I split a lodge while making rotis.

These days, intersectional thoughts on alienation, discrimination, social construction, architecture, city, space, time, tech (Ito, Kittler, Lefebvre, Bergson, Bateson, Davis, Ponty, Heidegger, Taylor).

The abstract Venn diagrams are useful mind tools for sense-making, and more Qs.

I am very absent-minded since childhood, conversing with someone in my head or playing tabla, with an artist live on stage.

All in my mind, Almost like playing myself in a movie, while being watched by me.

Weird, but I have gained a lot this way. But can be problematic esp. on Calcutta streets.

Great essay, that. 7-8 years back I had chanced upon this book, and the Deep Ecology lit. And it connected with the Upanishads, "Sarvam Khalwidam Brahma"—everything has brahman. If they practised as such, brahmins would not be such a ruinous bunch.