I’m All Lost In, #141: Non-rush-hour ridership; the Wimbledon draw; poetry revisions. Plus the Week in X>Y.
I don’t need to know what time it is that badly.
I’m All Lost In, #140: Sandra Zaniewska’s woo Substack; the Psychedelic Furs’ plaintive dusk; my poem about a 1970s hairdo. Plus the Week in X>Y.
The prerequisite for being someone else is remaining yourself the whole time.
I’m All Lost In, #139: Goodnight Tokyo; Purging my apartment; Empty libraries. Plus the Week in X>Y.
As we head into summer 2026, it’s eerily quiet at the ice cream shop on my block.
I’m All Lost In, #138: Stealing pens; Lists; and Roland Garros. Plus This Week in X>Y.
There’s a bench and micro-park at the corner.
I’m All Lost In, #137: The Nakagin Capsule Tower; NKD NA whiskey; Silence Please teahouse. Plus the Week in X>Y
With some caramel for the subconscious.
I’m All Lost In, #135: Fiction at the Bolshoi; Modular Seattle; and Desmond Dekker’s inversions in A-flat major. Plus the Week in X>Y.
If only Haydn’s BPM had slowed even more dramatically to the near-”Grave Lento” as well. There would be world peace.
I’m All Lost In, #134: Flow States. Plus the Week in X>Y.
While I’d remembered the wattage of the scene, I never actually remembered what it was about.
I’m All Lost In, #133: Chang-Rae Lee; “Goodnight Baby;” “You Really Got a Hold on Me.” (Plus the Week in X>Y)
But then the narrator, who plays the part of an epic bard, ends chapter one with this delicate mic drop…
I’m All Lost In, #132: Ani-marathon; the #8; Let Me Be. Plus this week in X>Y.
Shadows on the sides of ancient buildings and abandoned infrastructure
Midsummer Dream House publishes my poem “Ampules in Medias Res”
I wonder if you remember you told me
I’m All Lost In, #131: A Bowie song; a Goethe novel; and a different podcast than usual. Plus the week in X > Y and two music recommendations.
If I can get the melody and the bass working at the same time, I want people to stop telling me how hip the past is.
I’m All Lost In, #130: A 1960s art film; another Tsvetaeva poem; flossing and gummies; plus the week in X > Y, including tax breaks for developers > fees on developers.
Her odes to the hope that despair stirs in the human heart.
I’m All Lost In, #129: Upstairs on Pike St.; late-night poetry; ancient poetry; and the week in X > Y.
I would definitely not go here on a first date. But it’s perfect for a third.
I’m All Lost In, #128: The movie of Dorian Gray; a delicious Egyptian meal; a delicious vegan snack; and this week in X > Y.
It was as ephemeral and unconcerned as an hour could be.
I’m All Lost In, #127: Low-brow capitalism; Low-IQ AI; and the paradox of empty houses; plus the week in X > Y.
Give us coffeeshop moods rather than rock radio
Nova Literary Arts Magazine publishes my poem "Mental Health Poem."
Airports remind me of the Fertile Crescent.
I’m All Lost In, #126: Empty tables; my own personal prohibition; and Aria Aber’s Berlin. Plus the week in X > Y.
I don’t know why. But the Bats were hanging around my algorithm this week.
I’m All Lost In, #125: My translucent backpack; Aria Aber’s debut novel; Dave’s WTA overrated & underrated spreadsheet.
The poignancy of riding the subway home high after the sweaty club with her former schoolmate bestie.
I’m All Lost In, #124: Triangulating Wilde, Schumann, and the Transit app. Plus: This week in X > Y.
Like rearranging how you pack your suitcase rather than buying a bigger suitcase, affordable housing advocates should change the construction equation inside apartment buildings themselves.