✍ Writing & Words
🗞️ Kelly Clarkson is now publicly beefing with my neighborhood’s local curiosity shop.
✍️ New Blog Post Up Now // Practice What You Love, Not Just What You’re Good At
ℹ️ Hallelujah! I have officially migrated posts from my old Substacks to my blog. A lot of broken links and bad formatting, but I feel immensely relieved. It’s like finally moving furniture out of storage and into the home.
Here are some favs for old times sake:
✍️ I have decided to publish the results of every personality test I’ve ever taken. But why?
I wrote a little about that, too:
“When you first step into this universe of personality profiles, it can feel like it widens your perspective, giving you new insights into people, personalities, and the self. The first thing you do is go home and share it with your partner, your friends, or your family. Everybody takes the quiz and you all talk about each other’s quirks, fears, and strengths, laughing (or crying) at the results. In my estimation, this is where these tests shine— at the specious level, facilitating conversation and cultivating curiosity about the other. Yet, this rabbit hole is almond-shaped. The first few steps are widening, the next many are constricting. The further you go, the smaller the world gets, until all you see, speak, and do is the framework."
✏️ New Word Learned:
Bailiwick: a person’s or organization’s area of expertise, authority, or responsibility
✍️ Most people spend their lives trying to escape the block they grew up on; I’ve gotten mine tattooed on me. New post out now// bradley-andrews.com
The (909) used to be called the armpit of California. It is a place of widespread institutional bankruptcy, brown poverty, below average education rates, and the most crime-riddled city on the West Coast. Even the milder locations have a strange and surreal underbelly which was depicted by David Lynch of all people. Growing up, the IE had the worst air quality in the entire nation and at times I wonder if people can still smell the smog on me.
✏️ New Words Learned:
Spruik: an Australian and New Zealand slang verb that means to loudly promote, advertise, or pitch something
Scapegrace: an incorrigible rascal
Hornswoggled: to be tricked, cheated, or swindled in a clever or ridiculous way
✍️ New Blog Post Up Now // bradley-andrews.com
In the years post-cult, I’ve noticed a pattern among the spaces where people were willing to speak their mind. Generally speaking, the truth, when spoken, is not nearly as catastrophic as it is cathartic. It doesn’t come to people as a shock — it comes to them as a relief. When someone finally “says the thing”, it is like taking the lid off a pressure cooker, giving permission for people to act looser, less fearfully, and be less stressed.
✏️ New Word Learned:
Overmorrow: the day after tomorrow
Thank you to @miljko for putting it on the radar. And a reminder to everybody that you can find all vocab words in my Words and Writing category or filter for them by typing “✏️” into my search page.
✍️ New blog post up now // Everyone I Know, I Chose:
I was born and raised in Church. I was nurtured in a congregational setting and sustained by the friendships formed there. No matter your personal sentiments about faith, religion, or God, I hope you are willing to concede, at minimum, this simple understanding about what makes a church unique: A church is unique precisely because I cannot control who gets to be a part of it.
An imperfect post, but I hope it gets my point across. ❤️
✍️ Wrote a lil' something outlining the metaphor I use for creativity and indecision. There’s a knock-knock joke at the end I am quite proud of, too. Read the full thing here // bradley-andrews.com
Nothing I do can be classified as high-brow. I’ve been a generalist for so long that none of my skills are very deep. I have lived a lot of life and I have a lot experiences — but experiences don’t necessarily translate to craft. Craft, it seems, is what produces the excellence that really floors people. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche called it “long obedience in the same direction.”
✍️ Urgent: Wordplay Machine Out of Cervix
A new memo from our CEO. l love my internship at Never Bored Inc., but boy do things get strange. 😅 Embrace the strange!
✍️ Humility In Drag (The Birdcage Interview) // bradley-andrews.com
Robin found a way to make those traits a gift for others. He dealt attention generously; but he also knew when it was his time to step in and rearrange it. Not everyone is like him, with the capacity to absorb—or perhaps endure—the gaze of others. Attention is a powerful thing and people like Robin have an innate understanding of the deleterious effect that it can have on people who aren’t desirous of it. It can hurt. It can harm. It can make you self-conscious and afraid, killing that wonderful spirit of play and creation.
✏️ New Term Learned:
Non-sequacious: not following with smooth or logical regularity.
I cannot grasp the difference between this and non sequitur, if I am honest. The internet tells me there is one, but all the AI definitions and guesses are, well, non-sequacious. 🤷♂️
✏ New word learned:
Jejune: naive, simplistic, and superficial: (of ideas or writings) dry and uninteresting
✍️ A new company-wide memo from the Never Bored CEO was just published. As lead intern (okay, the only intern) I apologize for my part in the scandal, but glad it turned out for the best!
Read the memo by clicking here.
✏️ New Words Learned:
Fantods: a state of extreme nervousness, restlessness, fidgets, or uneasiness—similar to “the willies” or “the heebie-jeebies”
Anfractuous: full of windings and intricate turnings : tortuous
Icosahedral: having the shape of an icosahedron, which is a three-dimensional geometric solid with 20 faces
✏️ Two new words learned:
Mommicked: Informal word for harassed, confused, or badly messed up
Mammock: to tear, break, or cut something into small pieces or shreds
✍️ Some of my thoughts on Spiderman: Brand New Day are now posted // bradley-andrews.com
Does Spidey Have A Marvel Problem:
In this view, Peter’s internal question isn’t really about character development, it’s about Marvel’s own indecision regarding what their most beloved IP is supposed to be for them: a teen drama, a quip machine for merchandising, an Avengers-tier power player, or a street-level responsibility advocate. The executives can’t pick, so neither can Peter.
Lots of spoilers though, so please skip if you haven’t watched it.