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Quotidian Things & Stuff (QTS)

Quotidian Things & Stuff is a podcast about the everyday experience of the everyday. When I make it, I try to work fast, without overanalyzing the content and without getting into an obsessive headspace where I scrutinize every aspect of the production. It's a podcast I hope is fun and interesting.

QTS-014 | Books

Content: I talk about * The Weather * Buying books and then reading them... or... as is more likely, not reading them. * WWE Elimination Chamber * [S][J][P] - Surplus Jouissance Projects. Referenced: * WWE * Elimination Chamber 2024 * Peacock

QTS-013 | Friends & Enemies

INTRO: It has been too long since I last made a QTS. Here is episode 013. REFERENCED: * Cyberpunk genre * These dino eggs from Lakeshroe Learning * Joe Frank * Anne Carson's Grief Lessons: four Plays by Euripides (Amazon)

The more accelerated our life becomes…

The text below is from The Novel of the Future by Anaïs Nin. The more accelerated our life becomes, the more we have to learn to select only the essential, to create our own repose and meditation islands within an uncluttered mental space. I did not come across the text

Being enchanted with the quotidian

Also, from The Convivial Society email newsletter, which was sent out this week and I already blogged about here: In The Enchantment of Modern Life, political theorist Jane Bennett argued that “the contemporary world retains the power to enchant humans and that humans can cultivate themselves so as to experience

Information density & time

The text below is the opening paragraph of The Convivial Society email newsletter, which was sent out this week: Here’s an analogy for your consideration. Just as physical density bends time, so does information density bend the experience of time. (Disclaimer: I’m not a physicist and don’t

[Suggestion] Walk Notes

I recently found the Walk Notes (RSS) blog via the People & Blogs interview with Phil Gyford. I've been reading the posts between various other things I'm doing, and I really like them! From the Walk Notes About page: These are my notes from each week.

QTS-012 | Minimalism & desire

In her post titled Don't make simplicity complicated, Clare Devlin writes: Anything taken to the extreme can be complicated. And simplicity is no exception. Minimalism is, I think, about not being tormented by the insatiability of desire. However, the desire to become more minimal can become as distracting

QTS-011 | Ticket

Contents: In this episode of QTS, I talk about getting a $233 ticket for touching my phone at a red light, my dislike of big things (government and business), and how a fine like this could affect people who are not in my position. Referenced: The Unthanks (Spotify, Apple Music)

QTS-010 | Dryer Noise

Content: In this episode, I talk about how the quotidian is an important formative force in our lives, although it is often not seen as very formative compared to the big events in our lives. Sound: This episode sounds different than prior episodes because (again) I'm trying out

Could anything become normal?

“Even time travel becomes normal when it’s your day job.” A line from the novel Permafroat by Alastair Reynolds. So far, this is one of the most interesting time travel novels I’ve ever read. (The most interesting time travel book I’ve ever read was The Time Traveler’