Dear P. (Chang 2017)
I. (see: previous draft) [ Dear P., I saw the ad and hoped you could help. I’m an addict. Parentheses are both my compulsion and safe space – the medium for survival, not decoration. I can only be myself in between em-dashes and in half-whispered parentheticals: the only place where I can say […]
(PARENTHESES)
A traveller walks into an inn. The night is cold and damp. He is weary from the journey. Without uttering a word to anyone there, he takes a seat at a table. The silence is maddening. But at least it’s warm inside, and he can finally get some rest. All of a sudden, one of […]
GOT
Am vizionat Game of Thrones (2011-2019) cu o fervidă jactanță, ca să-l parafrazez pe Hăulică, și nu prea. De la început, vă spun că nu a fost greu deloc. Personajele sunt bine conturate și ușor de ținut minte, cum ar fi: Maegyr, H’ghor, Tarth, Khal, Bronn, Baelish, Targaryen, Clegane, Seaworth și multe alte minunății onomastice. […]
PAN-A-SONYC // PARTEA II
Toţi am simţit părul parfumat, păr de mătase de porumb despletită, fluturând în vântul de la pupa. Glezne ridicându-se încet, cu şosetele strânse, tricouri impermeabile. Şolduri ritmate de contracţii repetate, braţele ghidate şi sincronizate de Walkman. Fie ele patine-cu-rotile sau talpa protejată de „Libertate” (NIKE): ele îţi dau libertatea de a-ţi regla pulsul şi întreg […]
Intracranial Interpreter Test
I imagine most readers have had to program a lexer at some point. If not, for clarity, we should start out by saying that a lexer is a program that, given an arbitrary sequence of characters, breaks it down into lexical items to be used for various purposes. The lexer itself is not too difficult […]
Extracted Cinema
Authorship is dead (duh!). Images have a life of their own. Re-editing is a vibe. These could be the axioms of extracted cinema. In essence, not a new phenomenon, but nonetheless a relevant one, given the increasingly media-centric approach to filmmaking in present-day society. What you say and how you say it, while remaining relevant, […]
(meeting another)
The Salaryman Abducted by Aliens
Timotei Drob’s comic strip Salariatul Azi / The Salaryman Today is a treasure trove of contemporary culture. His iconic character comically encompasses the trials and tribulations of the everyman, caught in a dead-end job, striving for a better life in a neoliberal world that he understands less and less each day, and never really getting […]
Shadow be still. Thoughts melting in the sun
(Humming, building up courage or dispersing the awkwardness of talking by myself.) In the top left corner of one eye, I see something like a thread. It could also be some tall grass, but I can’t be sure. The image would be clearer if I turned my head a bit more, but I’m afraid to […]
. constellation
I was thinking you shall join my constellationI’ll use x for star in notationand 3 for ear@ for flowerit shall be @ at 3I’ll use # for fallingx # for melting desire3 # for uncertainty and colourand ? for eclipse in my notation I will be .you will be also .for hug I’ll use (.)and […]