Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

1915 / a lot of this introduction will likely be cut but getting it down as a step

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-146/ this week in sentences: sand, surprise, dismay, bilge, as with much, gestures, legacy, anti-capitalist, Pikachu, vaporware, perhaps, investigation, enough gravy, butt-drag, characters, meddling

Ramsey wants to watch Kpop Demon Hunters because he learned ProZD plays a tertiary character

Wait, the OpenAI Stargate data center complex is in Abilene Texas, the town that is hit with a dirty bomb terrorist attack in the opening sequence of the Richard Kelly movie Southland Tales (2006)

Still can't believe that they're making a third Now You See Me movie and it's not titled Now You Three Me

1554 / actually 825 words to chapter 2 and 729 words to an introduction that is basically where I'm reverse engineering the theoretical armature for this thing because unless I have a dead white guy I'm citing I haven't done scholarship

related: this morning ramsey and I concluded the key marker of a "good" musical is at least one mentally ill character and I feel like this overlaps with the john/lin theory

my theory of "john darnielle and lin manuel miranda are each others warios" remains undefeated

hearing lin manuel miranda doing backing vocals on the new mountain goats album and really thought "who's doing this corny lin manuel miranda impression"

niche academia question: is it normal to talk about the "metabolic rift" as Marx's concept or as Bellamy Foster's? I was taught it as a Marx idea but isn't it more accurate to call it an interpretation of Marx by a guy?

1135 / 9006 words and ooof, really running out of steam on this one but maybe that's fine

2091 / 7871 words on this chapter

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-145/ this week in sentences: tallest ghost, reification, merely, whaler, this level, WHO CARES, nostrils, live frogs, rice of the future, distinct, soybean, enchanting, the nothing they have, flesh, trash stratum, acceptable recuperation, surveymonkey

1679 today / 5870 words on chapter 2, halfway point wooo

Sure seems like there is no bottom to All This, huh

Also / I have submitted my revisions on chapter 4 / current word count for three chapters plus in progress is 40,918 which is much more manageable than nearly 40K words in just two chapters tbh

Today in the dissertation knowledge mines, found a 1993 article about using GPS for agriculture with the headline "From Desert Shield to soybean fields"

2166 / 4191 on this last chapter, hoping I can just crank it out over the next few days

I like that the Australian ISO country code used for their TLD is au because I can remember it by thinking "au naur"

1015 / starting the last full chapter, then it's just intro/conclusion, aieeee