Tadaima.
Tadaima.
Tadaima
A place to jot down the random stuff that pops in my head. Tadaima is Japanese for "I'm home!" or "I'm here!". It's also a great album by Akiko Yano.
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I was hanging out with some acquaintances when I brought up that I had a birthday recently. The woman I was talking to asked how old I was. I told her I was 40 and then braced myself for the inevitable “Dayum, I didn't know you were that...
There's this fantasy a lot of people have that if they could clear their schedules of work, chores, and the other everyday things they have to do to stay alive, they'll have more time to focus on their creative pursuits. Write the book...
It's funny, earlier I wrote about how disliking things feels isolating. But the flip side of that is that disliking the same things can bring you closer together. Nothing excites me like someone who has the same opinions as I do. My...
Last year I read an abysmal amount of books, like only a couple. So this year I made a promise that I would read more books and get caught up on my reading. This isn't the first time I've done this. I feel like I've tried and failed...
I was on Reddit a few weeks back when I stumbled across a thread where people asked, "How can you tell when something is written by AI?" Everyone answered: em dashes and italics. When I read that, I sort of clutched my pearls a bit. I...
I hate working out, but that's not particularly revelatory, is it? Everybody hates it. But lately I've been trying to make a real effort to do it and, most importantly, stick with it. As someone who really struggles with starting things...
I've finally got out of my reading slump this year and have been reading a ton. I have a long backlist of books I'm making my way through, but I'm always looking for recommendations outside of the popular, critically-acclaimed "hyped"...
When I was a kid I was obsessed with Project Ako. They used to play it all the time on the SciFi Channel (along with Akira and Ninja Scroll). But there was something about Project Ako in particular that really drew me in. It was...
There's an old interview with the Olsen Twins that lives rent-free in my brain. In it, the girls, who are about five at the time, are being interviewed by Regis and Kathie Lee (remember them?). The interviewers are struggling because the...