Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_JEezynhrc obsessed with this iPhone ad that emphasizes the cosmic origins of phone metals, extremely tragic for the asteroid that its apotheosis is...becoming a phone

pedagogy of the compressed.zip

ethnostates are a bad idea that produce horrific outcomes for everyone and it's weird that a bunch of people make an exception for exactly one

is it a covid headache or a stress headache, who can say lol

there's never a great time to get covid, but now is certainly not ideal (symptoms mild so far but just a lot on top of a generally stressful time)

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-41/ this week in sentences: soil, vertigo, a strange bird, less interested, barista, beloved Silver Lady, eager to outlive

found out from a friend that her friend who very recently left Vice loved our episode on reading their bankruptcy docs and that she was sharing it with all her former colleagues! it is nice when the people affected by the story you're telling are into it https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/rip-docs-the-vice-bankruptcy

it sucks to leave a home of six years but it really means a lot that my neighbors are genuinely sad about it and passing along leads

(an additional wrinkle in this is THEY OWN ANOTHER HOUSE in Vermont, which probably won't fetch as high a price as their Carroll Gardens building, but idk if I were in my 70s I would liquidate that for whatever I could get and hold onto the property with the passive income in the neighborhood my daughter and grandkids are still in??)

it's still baffling to me that they've decided to sell the building and think they can buy an apartment in the neighborhood--which is a way, way more competitive market and after all the closing costs they will barely have the cash to buy outright; like you guys can have a nest egg or a home in Brooklyn but not sure you can have both!

trying to not get my hopes up that their realizing the asking price is way too high might open them up to the offer we made to buy out our floor in a co-op conversion--probably won't happen, but I think their hope for a big quick payout is fading and maybe at least paying off the mortgage and cutting their share of building costs will become more appealing?

we told our landlords that we would probs not be moving out before our lease ends and they took the building off the market to wait for us to move out. No one wants to buy a Brooklyn building right now that's going to have tenants for another 9 months. (Also they've had a very tepid response at showings--probably bc the asking price is way too high.)

So, still have to move but won't have my home bought out from under us and no more open houses.

legal gray area: boring, vague

the Air Bud School of Law: delightful, implies dogs doing law (no rule that says they can't)

I might have called him a "fucking bedbug" on my way into the building, that felt pretty good at least

Finally got a chance to ask one of the creeps here for the building's open house how he has 4 million. He said he was a broker representing a client and I asked how they had 4 million and he gave a very NPC answer of just "they have the resources." Very disappointing!

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-40/ this week in sentences: most maddening, history of condensations, mailman, cult film, augured, lost luggage

weekly department guest lecture introduced me to this book on the ILLICIT SUCCULENT TRADE, extremely here for it https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-cactus-hunters