always stay gracious
best revenge is your paper
“We must leave each other and be happy.”
This nanny Gloria says to six-year-old Cléo in Àma Gloria, a wet-cheeks-on-the-plane-type indie film in French and Cape Verdean Creole, a balm for the long way home from Shanghai, a surprise gem in between a Chinese comedy and Disney/Pixar’s Elemental—it was either that or The Hunger Games filed under “Classics”; Chinese media curations do not abide by anyone’s expectations—sit and cry, bby, sit and cry
We must leave each other and be happy.
Those were the words that stayed, stayed through the next night and day, stayed until they were welcome.
I keep saying to myself I will use this newsletter for more directly commercial writing, the lifeblood of an independent practice. Indeed lately I’ve been thinking lots about decks, actually in defense of decks, particularly because there are a lot of many-word-mean-nothing decks and not enough of decks that utilize their power to communicate ideas.
I keep saying to myself maybe next time I will share the business thinky thinks. Today I present the digital version of Good Arson, my second zine. (We’re fresh out of our limited run of 50, thanks to all who supported. Keep sending me pics, reactions!)
Enlarged the font for legibility but still better on desktop, ok on phone. Still fun to see her in a new light, savor her in a new texture.˚ʚ♡ɞ˚
Thanks to Secret Granola Club members (paid supporters) for making this all possible. You make a sour year sweet.
—v
