05.12.2024
I’ll regularly update this page / share writing from January onwards. I am rushing to get essays in before the 13th of December. I graduate that day. It is also my birthday - Friday the 13th! Vanessa was saying that it was auspicious, outside A Bar before midnight bowling to celebrate her birthday. Don’t know if I agree - feels like a weird luck day!
I’m really enjoying figuring out how to build a website. Please bear with me - I only have the very basics down right now and I hope to make this website lots of fun. I'll include new pages, crosswords, and blogs over the next year. Plan to create Choose Your Own Adventure games and board games if I take to coding in the New Year like I plan to. My first website, a test one, whistlemania , dedicated to the world of whistling, can be found here.
I am loving Neocities - we should all have websites! Big shoutout to my friends that already do. Vanessa just launched Vanessa Town.com, check it out here. Anna is working on a project about the Chinatown Jail, also has a Neocities website lookingatjail. Amanda is drawing a very detailed replica of our fridge for a Chinatown websurprise...... incoming! Some more OG friend websites are also Finn's and Susie's.
After Vanessa’s birthday, I was thinking about luck. A memory from my first weekend in Dublin got muddled in. I remember standing outside a nightclub with UV paint stripes on my 18-year-old cheeks. Next to me an American kid talking about how he didn’t use white BIC lighters because of the 27 Club. I’m sure teens say that all the time in American High Schools, feel certain of it now that I live here. But it was my first time hearing that and it accidentally got archived, nonsense time capsule that didn’t need saving, delivered to me just ahead of my 27th year. That American kid now shares little wisdoms with over 2 million followers on TikTok.
His appeal - looking like Jeremy Allen White and delivering dating advice to millions of teen girls, lifting his top up in the thumbnail. Used to deliver his truths pretending to chop fruit/veg - easy way to show off muscles? Seems to have stopped after getting too much flack for that. The intro to most of his videos: "Oh hey, do you wanna hear another absolutely disgusting secret about men that they definitely do not want you to know? And as usual, this is an absolute foolproof method so please pay attention and do not tell anybody that I told you." He used this intro 12 times in the last month. I guess it's kind of amazing that he delivers bullshit facts for a living. Seems kinda auspicious, actually. Maybe I'll get to live my passion, too.
I <3 cameronsworld.net, an archive of GeoCities websites. I really like GifCities, an Internet Archive project. They extracted over 4,500,000 animated GIFs from GeoCities websites and then used the filenames and directory path text to build a search engine. Each GIF also links back to the original GeoCities page on which it was embedded. I'll share more websites and resources next month! Maybe I will make a new page dedicated to just that! For this month, I want to leave you with the Anarchist Library.
