Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Free idea: a podcast of two men talking but they're just reading the Hanoi Hannah broadcasts in podcast bro voices. "Bro, GI, you gotta go home." "I'm always saying! Nothing is more confusing than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on!"

I don't have a ton of personal attachment to the White House as a building but this whole debacle reminded me of an art history prof I had in college who hated the IM Pei pyramid outside the Louvre b/c for generations ppl could see and experience that space in the same way that ppl in Napoleonic France had, and that continuity to history resonated with him.

2288 / a little more borrowing from the proposal included here but I don't totally hate the intro? which is good bc I am feeling so drained/uninspired wrt the diss most days so it's nice to write stuff that doesn't feel like BS or task fulfilling

listening to every Goldberg Variations album on Bandcamp

I haven't been very good at keeping track of word counts lately but after about a week the introduction is at 9,013 words (with the caveat I just re-used the lit review I wrote for the proposal because why would I write a new one)

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-147/ this week in sentences: feudal, chucklehead, Paris, CAPTCHA, middle-aged, gelled, inertia, heartbreaking, caricatured, neglected, Monstrance, parade, no anguish, downside, as you know, pen, REALITY

Feel like it should be a funnier looking tree if we're going to use a word as goofy as "loblolly"

Thinking about how the 2013 game Call of Duty Black Ops II was set in 2025 and had a plot point about China using rare earths as leverage in a trade war

1254 / added in revising chapter 1

A year ago today my dog died so I am going to be having a rough day!! Please be extra nice to dogs today for me

the new Jay Som album is a real vibe fyi

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