In Robin Sloan's The thing about blogging is, Sloan declares:

A blogger can simply

1. love a thing, and

2. write about it.

And he's right! But that doesn't stop me from getting in my own head when I sit down and try to write something.

I'm something of a perpetual archivist: I make something. I become dissatisfied with it in some way or another. I exile it to Siberia (a folder on my hard drive called 'Vault'). It's a sickness, I know.

The thing is, it's hard to project your own self-loathing onto something you love. At least, I hope it is. (I guess I'll find out soon enough.) Love is a rich, deep well of inspiration. I could write dozens of posts and still not scratch the surface of the things I will have loved throughout my lifetime. But getting to share even just one of them with another human is an incredibly special and sacred thing. I hope I get to experience that here.

I'm having difficulty figuring out how to end this post. I've never particularly excelled at writing or creating structure. So here are some things I love and want to write about soon:

• The Palmer Squares' first EP, Spooky Language (2012)

• Brett Terpstra's nvALT

• The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero by Robert Kaplan

• Really Bad Chess, a game by Zach Gage

• Stop motion animation

• Antonin Dvorak's Slovanic Dances, Op. 46, B. 83: No. 1, Furiant

• irb (the interactive Ruby shell)

• NPR's It's Been a Minute

• Action cinema

• Ziwe's Baited interviews

• Patton Oswalt's improvised Star Wars/MCU filibuster on Parks and Recreation

• Bananagrams

• The use of clarinet and bassoon in the arrangements for Sweeney Todd: Tiny Desk Concert (esp. in By The Sea)

• Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)

• OpenBSD’s httpd