Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Thinking about how in Monkey Man the entire training montage is Dev Patel punching a bag of rice but somehow this also made him really good at situational awareness and dodging punches in all the subsequent fight scenes

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-70/ this week in sentences: this thing called an economy, long game, abide a chicken, nocturnal gelato, embarrassing about it, overdetermined, 100%

Oh my God I am the RIP Corp

Should I pivot to working in oil and gas next because it seems like by the time I show up to an industry it starts getting murdered

Me in 2020: well, seems like journalism is not panning out for me maybe I'll go lie low in academia for a little while to figure out next moves

Me in 2024: lol, lmao

So annoyed that I had to get on a group check in call today that I had to low key help coordinate at someone else's request and then that person didn't even come to the call??? It at least was brief and efficient but what the heck

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-69/ this week in (nice) sentences: an insult to serpents, tongue-bathe the boots, a salad so fancy, a lonely branch somewhere, telexes with one hand, deranged pirouettes, rabid fan bases

Watching a nonprofit media grifter frame a pretty worrying move as great news before they move into their next grift, you hate to see it

Prestige media: it's fine to withhold consequential info about the Trump admin for a year so it can be a scoop in a reporter's big deal book

Also prestige media: how dare you not let us publish detailed information about jurors in a politically volatile trial in real time as the trial unfolds

"These tradcore breeders engage in roleplay based on major fandom media, calling one another 'the Jim to my Pam'"

pitching an article profiling a heterosexual marriage as a novel "monocule"

explained what Occupy Wall Street was to a room full of undergrad art students, off to let my wizened elderly form disintegrate into nothingness

"All Countries Are Bordered"

trying to not just write "do not cite the deep magic to me, child I was there when it was written" in the margins of my students draft term papers when they talk about how online apparently used to be

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-68/ this week in sentences: infelicitous, health and busyness, bad writers, as great a gulf, 'sexy' ghoul, antique, deciduous, contraption or gizmo

Good night from Kitty

*youth pastor voice* you could say that the holy trinity is a kind of three body problem

fun fact: the original lyric was "cut my life into pieces / the body keeps the score" but bessel van der kolk is extremely litigious and didn't appreciate papa roach's musical tribute