Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

I've been struggling with the conclusion partly bc I'm worried my advisor is going to veto my dead white guy pick for a theory grounding (Polanyi, with some assists from the very much alive Keller Easterling and Anna Tsing) which is maybe paranoid of me but we'll get there

I haven't been very good at keeping track of word counts the last week and change but I am currently working on the conclusion and appendix, waiting for feedback on the introduction!!

intro + chapters word count is 54,399 so I should be in the 60-65K zone for the whole text.

"free as in markets, not as in beer"

I'm very late to this but it's pretty incredible that in adapting Infernal Affairs for a US context The Departed screenwriter William Monahan thought "Ah yes, Boston...the Hong Kong of America"

grateful that one of the comments on this dissertation chapter was one of my committee members defending the 1982 Atari ET game (instead of noting that it's kind of a tangent within the chapter as a whole)

The movie can be titled "Springsteen" or "Deliver Me From Nowhere", "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere" implies a Springsteen Cinematic Universe and they should not tease us with this possibility

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-148/ this week in sentences: simply, noise, otters, arboreal, delicacy, unsolved, nuisances, unconscionable, cornucopia, gurney, no use, forgotten, cult, commie, soup, caked, Swiss

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