Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

I had to give a zoom talk for art students this morning so now I'm more or less useless for the rest of the day, this is reasonable

if someone asked me "what's the big idea" I would be delighted to talk to them about anarcho-syndicalism tbh

"What's the big idea" is a fun phrase because I would be curious to know if a broader conceptual framework underlies a minor slight I'm experiencing

can't believe Stanzi Potenza has turned me into the kind of guy who goes to comedy shows

has there ever been a director/actor duo more perfectly paired than M. Night Shyamalan and Rupert Grint

working on talk slides and once again trying to figure out how to answer the inevitable "how do you stave off nihilism/depression working on bummer topics" question with something more uplifting and practical than "I'm heavily medicated and I got a dog"

the millennial urge while making slides for a talk for art students to include a screenshot of the $323 in your bank account right now just to be clear that you are absolutely not a role model

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-05/ this week in perfect sentences: phantoms, teenagers, backseats, bordering on farcical

is this a good tattoo idea

It's basically impossible for anyone in the mid-20th century to not sound like a woo woo guy when writing about quartz apparently

rebranding believing in New Deal policies and wealth taxes as "fiscal conservatism" because believing America should do stuff it was doing nearly 100 years ago seems pretty conservative to me

I'm currently doing novel historical search reviewing documents that have not been scanned or OCRed or in some cases translated into English, and something about the rush to rewrite the matter of the world with a good-enough chatbot using a good-enough dataset feels like an invitation from power to abandon questions the machine can't answer

Also learned:

- the quartz crystal market in Brazil was kind of a mess during WWII because you had both the federal government and private commodity traders from the US buying up supply so tracing sourcing starts to get fuzzy, but I have scans of monthly purchases by the USG and private vendors 1944-45 so I can at least track names and volume??

things learned on this national archives trip:

- the biggest German fused quartz concern prewar (Heraeus) definitely sourced from Brazil

- the colonial government of Belgian Congo was actively involved in developing tantalite sources for the United States (which is a big deal bc Belgian Congo mining prewar is mostly governed by private concession holders)

- most of the archives of the stuff happening in Congo are in Belgium and in French I'm fucked lol

Once again I am looking at risographs pretending I have a few grand to spare