Zorro the dog was brought home – saved – by my father from imminent death because he had a bad leg, and his original owner didn’t want to keep him because he was the weakest link among his brothers. So Zorro joined out household while I was still mourning my recently-deceased dog, Taho, killed by…
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Machi’s Diary
Day 1: Today is the day I meet my foster humans. I hope my snack schedule has been relayed. Day 3: Clearly I’ve gotten the shitty end of the deal in this foster home situation. While I am a personable floofball of charisma and scintillating charm, I have been handed to a family of cold,…
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Wow and Flutter
In the analog audio world, pitch fluctuations are called Wow and Flutter. It gets more technical than I care to delve into, so to keep it simple and in amateur turntable speak: When a vinyl record dips its pitch once every rotation, that’s wow; when the sound fluctuates in quick succession, that’s flutter. Whether caused…
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Shouldn’t This Feel Wrong, Lamb?
Huzzah, The Great‘s third season is out! Hoult and Fanning are terrific together. It’s ever so slapstick-y and absurd, but fantastic eye candy nonetheless. + Just learned how to play Wordle (I’m only 5 years late!) and lordy it’s the only thing that gets me out of bed in the mornings. + I’ve been watching…
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Updates, Newsletter Style
Let’s round-up some news, newsletter-style! Currently listening to:The SmileA Light for Attracting Attention
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Asian-ize Your Christmas Tree
Whenever winter comes along, there is no question that I will get obsessed with Christmas ornaments. I’m genuinely shocked by people who don’t put up Christmas trees. Putting one up has always been my year’s highlight. It’s not a Gather ’round, family, let us put this tree up together in the spirit of joy and…
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Recordings
It’s a Tuesday morning, and with nothing else on my agenda I’m going through every file in an old hard drive’s folder labelled “Old iPhone” when I find a video that’s 15:24 minutes long. The preview icon is a blur; I don’t know what it is, and what needed to be recorded for 15 minutes.…
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Attempts at Being Healthy
1. At 10 years old I’m constantly teased for being short. This of course doesn’t bother me now, but at that age it’s an earth-shattering, hide-under-the-sheets kind of shame. My mother finds me sulking in a corner one summer afternoon. Most probably she had seen my cousins teasing me, a situation I had extricated myself…
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