Mindless Carbonation: a selection of things that bubbled to the surface (blog).

01.12.25

I can see the shadows  cast on the driver’s face  by the ornaments hanging 

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01.10.25

I’ve heard it said many times before that your music taste crystalizes as you get older and stop listening to new things. I had previously been able to disregard this—I hadn’t stopped listening to new music yet—but now I think I need to confront the fact...

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12.31.24

I thought this might have been an ongoing series in the beginning of this blog but it turns out I’m not as good at multi-tasking as I thought I was. When I first launched the site, I thought I just had to get something out there...

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12.13.24

I watched Thelma and Louise at The Egyptian the other week. It was beautiful on the big screen. It feels wrong to idealize them given the context, but I couldn’t help but be drawn to the images of the characters’ lives in Arkansas. They immediately called to mind the work of an artist based in nearby...

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11.21.24

In August of 2019, I was laid off from the job that I’d been working for the previous four years. That job had only been picked up as a stop-gap on the way to the something better that I was sure was just around the corner when I was running through the last of my savings back in 2015. In retrospect...

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11.12.24

I’ve been kicking around the idea of starting a blog for long enough by now that originally this post would have been titled with the year 2023. I wanted to start with why I chose this medium. I think the explanation is necessary because blogs feel so antiquated. Why not simply go to a social media...

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