Ramble
Dear Kari,
Being hungry makes eating feel like falling in love. I wonder how enjoyable eating is for our fellow animals. The zoo should be rated R or maybe X and kids shouldn't go. I don't remember most R rated movies I watched, but I always remember a hippo shooting poop from its butt like artillery.
Retro electronics will always be better, just like there's a point of no return when people are trying to do anything and it becomes try-harding and they can't go back.
There's a wide range between decades where electronics were below the try-hard line, which really meant they looked and felt organic. Like if you electronics could grow in a garden, these would be them.
After the try-hard line, there's a sense of too much stuff being hidden and too much complexity. Retro electronics let you feel like they belong to you completely. Modern electronics feel like you're leasing them, like they're cheating on you.
I guess portable stuff like the Switch is pretty clean. But Kari
what is it called when an item emits a psychic glow-feeling of the era it came from?
Do you feel that stuff, like if you go to an old abandoned house, do you feel farther away from the actual year you're in?
Lettuce deserves an award for being so good all the time, mmm!
I love the 1970s aesthetics so much. Nobody knew how much everything would suck when Teslas started the trend of making headlights way too bright.
Kari, I think a reason that retrofuture stuff is so charming is that it's speculative instead of dystopian. I don't think there's an in-between. Retro is like foreplay is like the beginning of a movie.
I wonder what the best aspects of 2026 are that we're gonna miss in ten years.
Or do we get a whole new unpredictable era after dude dies?
—bro