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Good Luck / episode 14
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The Upanishads
Saw my friend yesterday. I was trying to be a better friend to him. We’d been trying to see each other for a while but hadn’t been able to until…
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Two Upcoming Workshops
Hello, I wanted to share some information about two writing workshops coming up, both in person, both taking place in NYC. The first of which is a ten…
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March 2024

Good Luck / Block
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February 2024

Good Luck / Suicide in Bed
Suicide in Bed I watched the movie, The Apartment last night. Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. I watched it because I didn't know what an apartment…
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Health
Health Bud Smith He’d been looking after his health. Every night just before bed he swung a mallet into his sternum until he broke through and then he…
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Good Luck / Grasshopper
episode eleven
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Good Luck / Episode Ten
Bullfrog Our cacti can’t stand on their own anymore. We’ve braced them with toothpicks. I was gifted a ceramic lemon and a resin flamingo leaning left…
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January 2024

Recommendations
books and movies
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Good Luck / episode nine
Dreams Just a quiet Sunday when you don’t care. Leave the bedroom, eight am. Go out to the couch, read for awhile. Two books, a novel, So Long, See You…
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Good Luck / episode eight
Oblique Strategies In July of 1975, Brian Eno entered Island Studios to record his third album, Another Green World. He had no ideas whatsoever, having…
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Good Luck / episode seven
Playboys Five of us were packed in the work truck listening to a wacky morning DJ telling a story about a man who dug a tunnel from his basement, to the…
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