Midnight in St. Petersburg
Like a light-bathed chicken I have been laying eggs around the clock.
Not so good for the jetlag timeshift, but still wonderful.
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Gravid With Decay
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Marginalia
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"Before we rolled out through the gate, I’d tell myself that I didn’t need to worry, because I was already dead. The only thing that mattered was that I did my best to make sure everyone else came back alive."
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"The problem wasn’t that Sisyphus had to roll his boulder up a hill forever; it’s that he had to roll it alone."
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Same with me, clowns, same with me.
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I'm here for the needless politicization of tennis versus pickeball.
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Biomimicry meet reclaimed waste product.
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"Cities are where we see each other. People who don’t want to see hate that."
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How much do you know about lines?
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Documentary on Minnesota's failed attempt at a city of the future in the late 1960's.
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"Humanity, how are you doing on this beautiful Monday?"
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Amazing visualization of European lighthouses showing light color, actual pattern, and radius of visibility.