one of the arcade random encounters of all time... must restrain myself from correcting you about the train sign i bought

you'll have your chance to set the record straight!

saddleblasters you're dropping so many collabs this week and each one is as crazy as the linkin park / jay-z crossover was in 2004

checked out your list of things you want to write about someday. I really hope you'll get to writing about xianyu because i shop a lot on it and I can feel how much comedic potential that topic has

tim rogers novel essential elements: 1) sex 2) harassed by cops or authority figures for being a smartass 3) images he's obsessed with like "world where all escalators have stopped" or the magpies

You posted this around the same time I got back into reading/listening/watching tim again. This is embarrassing to admit, but as I was skimming through people's thoughts about his life (yes, reading the impressions of outsiders about an outsider) I had the thought: "oh, this is kind of like saddleblasters". I almost feel like I owe you an apology... anyways, I enjoyed

very much reading both you and Balckwell's thoughts on writing. Writing about writing is always a finicky thing. Thank you for sharing.

regarding tim, our perspectives are perhaps kind of strange because we were both obsessed with him wayyy back (i was 16 i think when i first started reading his work) and then have turned pretty sour on him (at least in my case), as often happens with people you idolize during such formative years... I didn't really want to get into all that in the letters though

may these epistles be canonized in the gospel of tim rogers.

mantou is a pleasant name for a dog and whisky goes hard as fuck; it's asian americans naming their dog shit like "boba" that makes me cringe. i think there's an inherent beauty in letting yourself just be, without trying to find a greater theme or narrative to it. or maybe i just think that because it has not been long enough since i wrote my last college application essay

i feel like my whole life is this conflict between wanting to fit my life into a narrative and being disgusted by any attempt at "definition"... narratives often allow for community and self-understanding, but over-committing to one can be soul-sucking. i think this ultimately is one of those things with no easy answer, requiring one to walk the middle path...

also, mantou the dog is big, white and fluffy, so the name makes sense... far better than "小黑“, i.e. "little black." (though in my defense he was already named that long before either xiaoxi or i had ever met him.)

@saddleblasters that's a good point! living life aimlessly doesn't feel great, but neither does overanalyzing. it can definitely be tough finding a satsifactory balance between the two