9.02.2025

Did Morrissey die? Keep hearing The Smiths everywhere. The restaurant by the movie theater, drifting out of car windows. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now. Then at the dusty cafe this morning on Sutter. Off the socials and it's entirely feasible in this life to not catch such news unless it's spoken of directly. Impossible to keep up with shared references. Hey is this the name of the guy who owns that football team? Really none of my business. Solar events, weather anomalies. No one agrees on anything and I can't say without qualifying if that's necessarily bad but I have to think not being forced to focus on the same spot on the horizon all at once must be help some of us grow. Evolutionarily 'n' all. It's about who's telling you where to look and when you don't trust anyone who's not a friend of your invisible friend group who's left to argue? As such things spread. Lateral references which if I were pressed I'd posit that's how thought and language work anyway. We are become analogy. Pulses that say Hey What Do You Think of This and Do You Like It. Every axon needs a dendrite amiright. Morrissey's not dead by the way but I heard he's a pretty big jerk.