The fun is real. So is the mechanism stripping the people out who invented it. Every thematic drinking holiday follows the same invisible script: a marginalized community creates something vivid and defiant in the face of suppression, mainstream culture discovers it's enjoyable once the edge has been sanded off, and retail moves in to sell … Continue reading The Party Was Already Happening Somewhere Else
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Zuihitsu, 2025-12
These aren’t polished essays or tidy aphorisms. They’re scraps I’ve carried around this month—half-heard thoughts, borrowed lines, sudden recognitions—that refused to be forgotten. Zuihitsu literally means “following the brush,” and while my version is shorter and scrappier than the classical form, the impulse feels the same: to catch what drifts across the mind before it … Continue reading Zuihitsu, 2025-12
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