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I, like many in the circumferent embrace of Middle America, have a desk job. If you don’t have one of these, fret not, you can simulate this activity at home during leisure hours by calling your favorite insurance company (mine is Aetna). Your job supplies you with pens. The quality of these pens is variable, but spend some time hunting down the pen with the firmest grip and loosest ink. This is to preference. Once you have your ideal pen, locate its common associate the sticky note. The color doesn’t matter much but I prefer a high contrast color like yellow or pink. Now get put on hold and go wild. The pen is your sword. The five pointed star, daisy, human eye, and squiggle maze are your manifesto. Poetry can’t hope to express the yawning sublimity of blank mental landscapes that the 9-5 provides with the same clarity of the sticky note. I recommend learning it’s joy.
Feb 6, 2024
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the yellow post-it…. chic…. classic…. timeless…. the ease of whipping one off the pile and placing it somewhere else…. i’ve been going through packs like crazy since starting my new job. a new illustrator shortcut? post-it. got assigned 14 new designs to send to mockup and i want to make a list of them? post-it. i need a reminder to not smash my head through the monitor? post-it. i don’t care how tiny i have to write i can fit it on a post-it. and yellow is the best color
Jan 23, 2025
I use notebooks and sketchbooks a lot and something I’ve started doing recently is covering errors with sticky notes. Need to re-write your second verse? Throw a sticky note over the old version and rewrite it. (then I glue it down with a glue stick) Same with the sketchbook - totally ashamed of that embarrassing thing you just drew? Cover it with a sticky note and try again!
Jun 12, 2025
For the rapid note-takers & analogue homies, this is my underrated “hack” for lazy writers who don’t have time to organize the layout of their notes but need to establish clear contexts for something being written (heading, bullet point, styling).
This is nothing new but it’s rarely brought up (sometimes I have to remind myself)
Mar 26, 2024
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I was not going to take them seriously. I was going to post things like “poop on toast” and “huffing cats” like I might have on twitter. It’s time to embrace new frontiers, move forward earnestly, open palm, lit iris, lungs full of air. I will recommend with all I have, from the plinth of my beautiful life.
Jan 29, 2024
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Drinking a white monster is like playing chopsticks on a seismograph. Your body is a sensitive machine. Stop bludgeoning your receptors, treat them like a sting ray. Two fingers. Gently drop them a sardine. Sardines are soft, oily, and relatively uncomplicated. Or drink 8 monsters and swing the sting ray through the aquarium window and onto the interstate, where it hitches a ride to yellowstone. Either way take some notes. You need to know how these chemicals effect you. It’s not just monster, it’s milk, it’s mint tea. Every crumb imbibed is plucking the gossamer strands of your interwoven fabric. Eat something you are allergic to.
Jan 29, 2024