Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

*Shania Twain voice* and man! I feel 37

(It's my birthday)

to the exclusively men who feel obligated to tell me when there's a typo: don't worry I just spotted it lol

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-63/ this week in sentences: imponderables, humble farmer's son, the eternal story, horny jail, anthropomorphized, a nest

I am about to turn 37 so naturally I am thinking about how in the movie "To Gillian on her 37th Birthday" the 37 year old protagonist played by Peter Gallagher has a beach house and a boat and I'm pretty sure tenure in a literature department which I struggle to believe could buy two houses and a boat even in the 1990s

@jima @kendraserra I mean in NYC it definitely had lockdown vibes for most of March through June but I accept that a pedant might disagree

@misc I will demand the worm, with rhythm

Worried I'm going to get thrown out of the movie theater during Dune 2 for chanting "Worm! Worm! Worm!" every time a worm isn't on screen

@kendraserra I tend to distinguish as "during lockdown" if I'm talking about 2020 times? but even that sometimes feels like "back when all of this wasn't normal"

https://dingdingding.org/issue-2/terraforms-or-how-to-talk-about-the-weather/ just re-read this essay I wrote in 2018 and while I think it turned out OK I don't love that the general vibes have not changed even a little bit since I wrote it

I felt like a dork signing on when it's not like anyone was asking me to participate in projects anymore as I slide into cultural irrelevance but now I guess I did the right thing

LOL it finally happened I got asked to participate in a project by a German arts org and I had to say "have you engaged with the Strike Germany demands"

@colinmford as a large language model I am unable to hold an opinion on whether or not I like jazz

We need new metrics for AI electricity use, like a ChatGPT exchange equals how many minutes of rendering The Bee Movie

Karl Marx did not spend multiple pages developing an unnecessarily involved case study about linens and coats that cleverly mocks Ricardo just for you to just call everything "enshittification" young lady

Wild times in the dying empire

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-62/ this week in sentences: too much evidence, baroque architecture, through a computer, consistency of a milkshake, candle purchasing, rasps, clover, bright shrapnel, distinct flavour, threats

To be clear I would not trade this, the sitting on a couch crying with my dog, for anything in the world, I can't believe my luck getting to have this dog