Monday, January 05, 2026

Dates, from the slopes and esoteric zine.

1. To eat a few fat sweet dates with my coffee.

2. A video showing careful, elegant parallel turns comes home from the dry slope before they do.

3. His interests have turned to the occult and I'm pretty sure I have an esoteric zine with an article that will answer his questions. It only takes a little digging among dusty magazine files to find it, and it also has stickers and a flexidisc. 

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