I Want to Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now
Hello folks. Happy Friday! Happy belated May Day to all my working class cuties. Also, happy taurus season. Hope all of you made intention lists for the taurus new moon last week and everyone's seeing some progress in their monthly manifestations. Top of my list was writing a newsletter, so...
May Ins and Outs
It's ur fav bisexual writing my fav bi-occuring segment to my biweekly post
ins
- this one striped t shirt i got from Old Navy like a week ago
- smith machines
- mojitos
outs
- having my life together
- working doubles
- pollen allergies
She's a Runner, She's a Track Star
2 Saturdays ago Brooke and I ran the BAA 5k! 'Twas very exciting and would def do it again. Running down the middle of Boylston and crossing the marathon finish line was very, very fun. Brooke PR'd. Nobody's allowed to ask me about my time though. Just know I finished at the exact same time as the women's 80+ age group winner.
The vibe was absolutely fascinating. Maybe it's just because this is the first official 5k I've ever done and I just had no idea that people were so serious or I maybe think the 5k is like a lot of the marathoners last shakeout run pre race day, but wow. People doing like real, full-on warm ups, people in tinfoil blankets before even getting in the corals to get to the starting line, people decked the fuck out in Hokas and Garmins. I know there were world-class athletes that were going to run this in like less 14 minutes, but the normies were living the fantasy too. The people watching was truly unlike anything I've experienced thus far. Kind of obsessed with the runner aesthetic, and especially obsessed with the divas who were not above throwing a shoulder or a little elbow to get a PR. Being so genuine, I aspire to have that level of dedication and ferocity for my hobby of choice.
I know there are some runner girlies in the chat so leave your hottest running tips in the comments.
It's Designer
Yesterday, Nat let me know that Es Devlin was speaking at MIT and I skipped out early on therapy to run over to Cambridge. The talk was about her enormous career and her practice as an artist. It was so cool.
For those unfamiliar with Es Devlin, she's a multi-disciplinary English artist and designer. Her work spans from charcoal portraits to enormous public sculptures to Olivier and Tony winning theatre set designs to production designing for A-list musical artists. Among her most recognizable works are Kanye's Yeezus 2013 Tour, Lorde at Glastonbury 2017, Beyonce's Renaissance 2023 Tour, U2 at the Sphere, and Lady Gaga at Coachella 2025.
I think most striking for me during this talk was that Es hammered home that she is not a genius just coming up with perfect, singular ideas on an island. She is constantly in collaboration with other artists, with the media she consumes, with her environment, and so on. That no artist really creates in a vacuum. The moderator was obviously lauding her on all of these huge, super cool projects and it would be so easy for her to just say "yup, all me" and hang onto all the credit. At one point, Es brought up this quote from author Jorge Luis Borges:
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
I've worked a fair number of artist talks at the ICA where some folks love to talk about how the only inspiration they need is inside their own head. So, I thought it was really refreshing to have someone so widely successful be real about just how interconnected artistry is. Related was when someone asked about her frequent use of circles in her work and she talked about how she likes to think that when she evokes a shape, that she kind of stands of the shoulders of everyone else who has ever evoked the same shape. Idk! Cool!
It was a really good talk, the audience asked some good questions and I had a good time. Here are some photos of her projects from her website you might recognize:
She Sells Seashells
After the 5k I went up to Maine with the siblings for Easter. I participated in one of my all-time favorite activities - scrounging around on a rocky beach. "Beach-combing" feels too formal for what I do. I'm walking with my arms behind my back, I'm squatting in a tide pool, I'm sifting through rocks like a gold rush era miner.
Enjoy some photos of some peak ocean treasure hauls.
C U L8r
Another set of recs for your coming week:
a song i'm loving:
- Starting Line - Luke Hemmings
a movie i watched:
- Conclave (2024). This was like .... fine? Banger score, looked beautiful, just kinda nondescript otherwise? Stanley Tucci was an unfortunate miscast. I really wanted a trans masc pope.
a book i'm reading:
- I have officially started Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Liking it so far. I really like the documentary style narrative. Cannot wait to watch the tv series with Sam Claflin.
