Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-89/ this week in sentences: the dead, the orb, ambergris, Karl Marx, coke with Oasis

listening to a 2002 Mountain Goats live show bootleg on the Internet Archive (another reason to treasure and protect the Internet Archive!!) and while I love the audience engagement it has nowadays, it's such a treat to experience an audience hearing "No Children" for the very first time

formatting my CV for academic job application and man, I sure am illegible lol

like: i am not going to get the job i am writing this teaching statement for, and that's fine probably, but it's such a bummer to remember that after getting all excited writing about how cool it is to see students come out the other side of a research rabbit hole

no one told me the worst part of applying for academic jobs is having to admit that I really love teaching!! i want to make spaces for the youth to be brave and curious it's so fucking cool. and also it sucks that most universities are actively disinterested in teaching as the act of making spaces for courage and curiosity bc they are basically hedge funds with a veneer of intellectual credentials

Vaguely concerned by the yoga class playlist that includes a sad a capella rendition of "Dancing on My Own"

*Joker voice* We post in a society

Sam Altman needs enclosure of the digital commons to make AI slop into money but the Internet Archive can't lend books for free, what an embarrassing timeline

a humiliatingly precise depiction of me from a documentary interview I did last week

Just a suggestion

seeking good reads on business and/as celebrity—sort of about the "personal brand" of it all but also the idea of the celebrity founder as avatar of brand

I know why this happens but am nonetheless annoyed by an open call for artist residency program critiquing "individualism and binary thinking" in which collectives are not eligible to apply

do I still know anyone in boston who would put up with me staying on their couch for a few days later this month to go do archive research

The conference on "mine tailings" is not I repeat not a furry thing

Kitty's neighborhood dog best friend is moving to Michigan (her family bought a house) and I am more sad than I probably should be

Looking at subway ads for a skincare brand that are just black Helvetica on a white backdrop, Dr Zizmor would weep