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Desert Run I

I stitched together my favorite running songs because I need some solid entertainment to keep me moving through the desert.

Mojave Desert

The sensation of slippage continues.

The desert is littered with bizarre facts, and I often think I invented them, like a fragment from a dream or a misremembered film.

Las Vegas

Fever dreams enhanced by the American government.

Here in Las Vegas, we’re catching the faintest edge of the atmospheric river, a weather event that sounds like something from a fantasy novel.

Las Vegas

Algorithms cannot compete with the messy spectacle of humans.

In the grip of my delirium, I half-watched a lousy Netflix series that can be viewed in any order, which seems like a trial balloon for AI-generated entertainment.

Las Vegas

The sudden lights of Vegas in the valley below.

C. and I rang in the new year at the top of Route 93.

Journal

2022 Rotation

My favorite albums this year sounded messier than in years past: scuffed and bruised yet defiant—which sounds like the future.

Las Vegas

They say it’s the future, they say it’s useful for us.

The unique scent of desert rain has a scientific name, petrichor, derived from the Greek words for stone and the blood of the gods.

Las Vegas

Even if the rewards have diminished.

Unlike the blank winter grays of the Midwest and East Coast, the clouds over Vegas are well-defined, painterly, and startlingly low.

Las Vegas

All the little red bubbles.

Las Vegas feels like the future, but I’m also living in the past.

Las Vegas

There’s too much night here.

It’s the longest night of the year, and I went for my first Las Vegan run.

Interstate

White line fever and the higher silence within.

Billboards across the panhandle told me to find nirvana, win a free furnace, and invest in crypto.

Las Vegas

My screens reflected against the sprawl.

As we pulled up to our ninth small tan house of the day, “American Woman” rocked the block.

Las Vegas

Vegas architecture hides from the sun.

As we consider each room, there is much discussion of orientation.

Las Vegas

A dedicated place where I can tack index cards to the wall.

The Pacific Time Zone is turning me into a morning person, and I do not like it.

Las Vegas

Taro puffs the size of your fist.

There’s something so tranquil about an illuminated palm tree. It’s a science-fictional kind of calm.

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