✍ Writing & Words
- Food that is always best the next day or when reheated
- The feeling of loss you have after finishing a great book
- When the person controlling the music switches songs from unrelated genre to unrelated genre
- The feeling of clarity and relief you feel after having a much-needed cry (like petrichor, but for the soul)
✏️ 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.
✏️ In connection with my running list of phenomena that need words made, I am making a list of words that I wish to coin. Here is the first, for your consideration:
Actualstance: grounded in what has actually occurred, rather than in speculation, impression, or performance; the stance that arises from verifiable experience and concrete reality.
Ex: Although Nora was a writer of fiction, the bones of her stories were always rooted in actualstance— details, anecdotes, and ironies lifted directly from her real-life experience.
Also open to suggestions, so please reply if you have any!
✏️ I am making a list of phenomena that need words made up for them. Please reply w/ your own!
When the list gets big enough, it would be fun to collect suggestions and then take a vote. Here are some examples:
If words for these exist, do let me know!
✍️ New Blog Post Up Now // The Oldest Game
I feel like I am always changing language, changing location, changing myself. If you told me that the most ancient game in our universe was a game of transformations—of survival by means of constant change—I wouldn’t hesitate to agree with you. When it comes to longevity, life is a free fall—and all that matters is how many wings you can grow before it’s time to kiss the earth.
The most linear thing I’ve ever written (or best drawings I’ve ever drawn)? Nope. But I had some things to say.
✏️ New Word Learned:
Circumlocution: the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea
A conceit that I excel in.
👻 This mysterious flyer has been poppin' up around Brooklyn
✏️ New Word Learned:
Tramontane: a cold, dry, and often fierce north or northwesterly wind that blows out of the mountains down into the western Mediterranean and Italy
✏️ New Word Learned:
Pampero: a strong, cold, and often violent wind that blows from the west, southwest, or south across the pampas (grasslands) of South America
✏️ New Word Learned:
Peneplain: a gently undulating, mostly featureless landscape formed by prolonged erosion, particularly by rivers, over immense spans of geologic time
✍ New blog post up now // Get My Good Side
The irony about people posing for the camera (at least in street photography) is that they often stop doing the very thing that made me want to take a photo of them. The more they try to look like how they’re supposed to, the less they look like themselves.
The chest expands, the lips get tighter, the chin tilts a little less daringly. Even if their appearance remains the same, you can tell the spirit has left them. It’s astounding how one camera can turn a whole man into a mannequin.
“The words rolled off the woman’s tongue with irresistible tenderness. Her care was stated with such conviction that even the eavesdroppers understood it as a promise, or perhaps, a prayer. Her modelesque features—sharp cheekbones, perfect posture, and piercing eyes— had just minutes ago caused everyone in the room to rearrange themselves, but now felt eerily irrelevant. She was no longer an ornament. She was a girl— love-giving, hand-holding, life-nurturing.”
✏️ New Word Learned:
Fianchetto: a chess development pattern where a player advances the pawn in front of their knight one or two squares forward, and then places their bishop on the newly opened long diagonal
✏️ New Word Learned:
Dilatory: slow, tardy, or inclined to cause delay
✏️ New Word Learned:
Siroc: A siroc (or more commonly sirocco) is a hot, dry, and dust-laden wind that originates in the Sahara Desert and blows across North Africa into Southern Europe.
✍️ New blog post just published // Read the full thing here: bradley-andrews.com
Counting Car Horns Instead Of Sheep
Months into the summer, I was expressing to a friend the sudden and uncharacteristic urge I had to wander into a church. “My ass has done its ten thousand hours of warming a pew and I could care less if I ever heard another sermon. I think I just wanted to feel at home,” I remember saying. He let my statement linger, and after staring pensively into the ceiling, he replied, “Bradley, I thought the goal was to feel at home everywhere.”
I let that statement linger too.