Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-157/ this week in sentences: phantom, stranger, parcels, parents', aortic valve, adjectival, beans, giant rabbit

just remembered this year started with the image of a cyber truck in flames in front of a Trump hotel

Found out today while getting a haircut that at some time in the last few months that a chunk of my hair must have fell out and I just hadn't noticed, cool normal 2025 stuff

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-156/ this week in sentences: uncool, crystalline, early, contemptuous, golf, flesh, posthumously, guarded, shrubbery, name, ensemble, cells, eminently, transcend, clown, shrimp, so many ways, landmass

Sometimes courage is not the presence of hope but the absence of fucks

Going on Shark Tank to pitch "molly for bugs"

@mjd manuscript is in, defense scheduled for january!

Fun professional news: I'm one of the two new Editors at Large at urbanomnibus.net, a publication of the Architectural League of New York. please get in touch if you have ideas you'd like to develop into commissions on any broadly-defined NYC architecture and/or urbanism topics!

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-155/ this week in sentences: credibility, cough, soil, wallpaper, golf, annoying, sisterhood, daisy

@migurski same tbh

@clhenrick thanks!

me: hey man how's it going

scott galloway: women showing feet is a social cancer we can solve by making boys do war

https://placing.technology/i-submitted-the-dissertation-manuscript-heres-a-debrief blogged a very belated debrief on the dissertation as I mull over what (else) (if anything) I do with the dissertation blog as I approach the finish line

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-154/ this week in sentences: raccoon, redwood, gambling, bruised, sweater, mysterious, winter, ripeness, cult, flesh-tone, beaver bombing, laissez-ed, ethics, definitionally, glands, indolent, robot wolves

@bob @jimmynohands it was coined by Andy Cameron and Richard Barbrook in 1995?

Between this and the abundance nonsense I low-key believe there's a guys-in-a-room-planned-this project to appropriate lefty rhetoric to serve shitty capitalist ideas through dumb thought leader books

I read a review of the Stewart Brand maintenance book and I'm pretty sure it's a psyop

I did it, the full manuscript has been sent to my committee, hope it is deemed defensible!!

also I haven't written the acknowledgments because that seems like bad luck to take the victory lap prematurely

sorry, 256 pages for the actual dissertation, the whole document is 335 pages