08/3/24 > ii (in8 iD) had thi5 digital chap «Ni/trogeИegor\Tin» publiched in Petrichor #25, in effect ^ few seXions of 2-byte βeta Ei8ht ½-Loopƨ branched off + repurposed 2 B ^ st&alone objet, even maid thi5 cover 4 iT (w/ the help of Ai):

> weave had thi5 si5ter Goat Rodeo 5ite for 16 yrs now + sumhow managed 2 feetsure sum sort of capra eNcounter @ least 1 x per yr, even living in the big apple, 2day saw these 1s in Riverside Park @ 140th street (they bring 'em in each summer 2 eat weeds)

> Blake Butler rote this nice field report abt Ↄalamari/i on Substack ... re-affirming 2 know ii/Ↄal had such an impact on Ↄalamari authors (enough so that BB jumped in ^ pool w/ clothes on when news of publication was received (if BB means thi5 litteruley?)) + cool 2 revisit those early dayz thru BB's POV, diffrent than what ii remembers > ii doesnt even remember reading + rejecting Scorch Atlas 1st b4 publiching Ever ... Ever came @ ^ 5trange time, publiched when we were living in a garage in Nairobi, far removed from th Amerikin lit 5cene, far removed from NE lit 5cene ... not that Ↄalamari has ever felt ^ part of NE lit 5cene eXCept in5ide wa5hing machines ab&oned on the 5treets

artwork from Ever (the original now hanging on BB's wa||)

> ii aint privy 2 th other 5 posts in the 6-part 5eries on Ↄalamari, ii aint ^ 5ubscriber ... ii doesn°t 5ubscribe 2 NE substax just out of principle, ii thiNKs in4mation shd bee O-pen 5ourↄe, free + aↄↄessible 2 evry 1 > ii misses the dayz when BB blogged on gillesdeleuzecommittedsuicideandsowilldrphil.com, when ii'd rite sumthing + BB wd rite ^ reaction 2 iT (ware iT = in4mation tecknowledgey), ware such in4mation lived out there in th O-pen, free 2 interact w/ other webbed con-10-t on Inurnet, penned by ii + BB but then continuing 2 live on iTs one forging new conneXions w/ other Uni4m Re-sorce Locators > now con-10-t is jailed B-hind paywa||$ or saddled w/in the contxt of social media or blog cir©les ware u have 2 fo||ow ppl 2 access iT, cre8ing monetized higherarkies ... is ii th onely 1 that realizes how pointless|y fucked this is?

> N-gauged w/ Zone C bi Rosaire Appel, who did the cover 4 the recent Libretto Lunaversitol, comes @ an interseXion ware ii contempL8 reloc8ing, lots 2 reflect on re: 5hifting po55essions

+ also N-gauged w/:

• Pope's Exorcist — fictional account of Father Gabriele Amorth (playd bi Russell Crowe), the Chief Exorcist @ the Vatican ... imagine having that on yr resume!
• The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent — Nic Cage playing Nic Cage
• Delirious (2006) — a variation of Midnight Cowboy but w/ Steve Buscemi az a paparazzi Ratzo Rizzo + Michael Pitt az Jon Voight (but ^ homeless urchin turned celebrity in5tead of mail hustler)
• Perfumed Nightmare (1977) — intresting DiY filipino indie film, worth it 4 footage of Philippines + Paris in the '70s