A new essay on eloquence or the problem of speaking well. I talk about sontag, rosalia, ballet, my friends, beauty, god. A final entry in this year’s series on self & consciousness. open.substack.com/pub/foliei…

This has all been a scheme orchestrated to distract from tinashe and each second wasted on discourse is another small death (tinashe is, of course, a deathlessness)

I have grown wiser, calmer, more intentional about energy. Unfortunately I do miss cultivating parasocial relationships from online schizophrenics

True power comes from total mastery of eye contact. and knowledge of its intricacies

I am concerned with subjectivity and intersubjectivity and also of course wooden furnitures

I was sorry to miss my grandmother’s funeral, but I knew there was local art nearby, and I knew I must support it,

So many opinions on what conditions will irreparably damage one’s life at [arbitrary age], when, if you are kind and curious about the world, and you keep trying, you’re really doing just fine

We were at the cinema and my friend asked if I wanted popcorn and I, almost like reflex, purely unconsciously, said the phrase ‘I find popcorn juvenile.’ I’ve never thought that before. I don’t even believe it. But my instinct for Having Something To Say overwhelmed even me

That even in countries that use metric, the phallus continues to be measured in the imperial system—Cock is a colonial disease,

Something uncomfortably plastic about the writing on shows like Adults, I Love LA, etc—like all the characters know they’re telling a joke

I wouldn’t say it’s ‘measles’ so much as a tasteful homage to yayoi kusama

Strange to see the phrase ‘khia asylum’ becoming common parlance among celebrities, when not a single one of them has accomplished a feat like this

becoming-‘trade,’ and the autophallophilic homosexual male

People ‘love’ me and ‘genuinely enjoy my company’ in order to undermine my persecution complex

It is of course difficult to be an indian gay guy receptionist pretending to be the most annoying woman in the world online but such is God’s test

I am the only person with the wisdom and wherewithal to truly determine what is ‘kinda chic’ but they have appropriated and made a mockery of my life’s work

One of yung lean’s sexiest qualities is that he sings off-key. There is simply nothing more earnest and erotic than a man who tries

You can tell chanty beluga is cruel and vicious under that friendly veneer Only a coldhearted snake would introduce herself with a surname