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sophie chupacabra

@szumm.bsky.social
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東京で有名な汗妖怪

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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
eno's new deck of 'direct strategies' just a series of rude suggestions about where to insert each card
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
experimenting with doing push-ups while listening to tim hecker 'anoyo' (2019)
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
woke up feeling like the last cigarette commercial ever to air on American television
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
pieter bruegel the xillennial, pieter bruegel the zillennial
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
thinking about compelling objects
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my priest, my rabbi, and my imam all agree that if other people can wear bucket hats i should be allowed to wear one too
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
you can hear it whenever someone with an unusual name suddenly rockets to international fame: the slick sound of a billion people learning to move their tongues in new ways
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
finally, set aside time to settle on an alias, a good one, one without too much flare or any pesky connotations, one you could live with, or failing that, tolerate inscribed on your grave
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
you can notice that people entering grocery stores shake off their umbrellas like priests casting holy water from a—what's it called again? and as you shop and run and ride the train you can rotate that object and mouth different sounds, until finally: aspergillum; and that can be your wednesday
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
experimenting with doing push-ups while listening to Shane Parish, 'autechre guitar' (2026)
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
still wearing her primary school uniform, tokyo's youngest forex trader is not yet ten but already commands a corner office in the city's Otemachi district, 'the numbers come easy, the accounts are always full' she tells us, taking a drag from a mevius cigarette, 'but something in me remains empty'
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
my primary ambition in life is to remain in a walkable neighborhood of a major city, a goal which shouldn't make me feel like a tiny tick desperately clinging to the hide of a giant animal, but it does
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
thinking about flying saucers
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
i read too much pynchon as a teen so i still think watching a patrician word wander into a dive bar sentence is the height of comedy
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
ugh they make it basically impossible to cancel this gymnopédie membership
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
briefly pausing the ambient album to find, with great satisfaction, that the crickets continue chirping
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
to risk making another jejune observation on language, why has 'quietly' quietly become such a prevalent adverb?
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
today, scientists describe the brain as akin to a giant bucket filled with crabs, each crab represents something called a qualia
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
when i'm wearing all black and see someone wearing all white i hear that ennio morricone whistle
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
in a workshop tucked away in the backstreets of mejiro, this master craftsman applies the traditional techniques of urushi lacquer to a new object: toilet seats; 'my clients appreciate the detail,' he says, taking a drag from a mevius cigarette, 'but they are perverts, they won't leave me alone'
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
thinking about paintings
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
experimenting with quixotic pursuits
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
experimenting with doing push-ups while listening to the new chat pile, 'who loves the sun' (2026)
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
what's more, i will not 'find you' anywhere, 'catch you' engaged in any activity, or 'hit' you with any recommendations; such rhetorical crutches speak to a character enfeebled by copywriting, while overuse of soft adjectives (e.g. deep, warm, passionate) suggest a mind polluted by poor literature
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
slang, while acceptable, are a powerful index of one's cultural milieu and should be used accordingly (i would not, for instance, deign to socialize with anyone who identifies as a breed of dog); demographic neologisms, especially those affiliated with media properties, are similarly repulsive and
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
i don't think the presence or absence of tattoos is notable or interesting, nor, barring extreme outliers, is your height; vacuous statements (e.g. 'i like music') reflect poorly on you as do tautologies (e.g. 'i like people i vibe with'); furthermore, unqualified or vague statements regarding your
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
held tactically mouthward by a cop perched in the chrome crow's nest atop a police van where, from above, she stoically surveys the rowdy melée of awa odori dancers moving below is not, as seen at first glance, a walkie-talkie, but when bitten, revealed to be something else altogether: a corndog
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
as children we were told these strange bedtime stories, surreal tales with unsettling twists; a decade later, watching late night tv, it becomes clear they were half-remembered synopses of twilight zone episodes
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
so this guy pratfalls into the bar, buys everyone a round of shots, hits the dartboard with one perfect bullseye, and just before leaving, stuffs a business card in my mouth; it tastes like strawberry and lists his profession as 'bon vivant / idiot savant'
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
thinking about krakatoa
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
office hours are held every thursday from 9 to 9:15 p.m. in the second floor smoking room of the Lawson in shinbashi 4-chome; the advice is free but bring your own cigarettes
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
experimenting with entering the verdant maw of your mind's forest, flipping over a sponge-soft bole, and observing the rolly pollies at work underneath
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
i have been cast out of society and made to live a bare life on the cracked carapace of the earth, and well, that's just the little red wagon i'm given and now i've got to pull it
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
awaking to find that in my absence the world has shared a profound and moving experience, a moment of communion from which i, for my sin of sloth, have been excluded
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
let's get out there and let the city's mundane architecture enframe our bodies in a way that suggests interior lives of quiet melancholy
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
thinking about juice boxes
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
experimenting with drinking three 'chill green' spicy and citrus flavor 'chill highballs' while listening to destroyer, 'poison season' (2015) and destroyer, 'labyrinthitis' (2022)
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
sitting sukhasana on a giant lotus blossom, still, serene, floating just ever so perceptiblely above its delicate petals, and bashing my phone into my face over and over until one or the other gives out
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the sculpture on a pedestal and on the gallery floor circling it, taking in all its bronzed angles, me and an old lady; we orbit slowly, each always each other's antipode, and it feels for a moment like we're in a ouroboric slapstick chase, but who is pursuing who?
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
thinking about pikachu
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
the blue gingham shirt is uglier up close—there's gaudy lace on trim on the flounces—but i can't think about this now because the smell ozeki sake is hot on her breath—who orders such a drink? at a bar even!—and her hand, it's on my knee, creeping under the hem of my big beige sack dress
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
just beyond the rose garden, where each bush, now wan and budless in the august heat, is accompanied by a plaque stating a name, cultivar, and country of origin, on expanse of grass, uniform and prisitine as polyethylene turf, are two robot mowers, clanking together like rutting tortoises
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
if he ever gets more than two beers deep he starts talking like a hokey southern gothic author, last time he told me the i looked darling in the pale blue glow of the bug zapper on a humid night, i just said thanks and changed the subject
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
like the ancient greeks, cicadas have a very rich tradition of oral history; listen carefully and you'll hear cicada homer reciting verses the from the cicada odyssey: chii chii chiiii chiii chiii chiii chiii chiii chiii chiii chiii chiii chuiii chiii chiiiiiii chii
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
which cicadas are your favorite? the one's that go chii chii chii chii chii or the ones that go grape grape grape grape?
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
it used to be that if i thought about an object enough i would eventually find it for free in the street—shoes, a salt lamp, potted palm, even a framed Matisse print, anything really—sadly, this ability disappeared after i caught covid
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
the government sent a stats report for my first year in japan; i get how they calculate my total metro mileage, but how do they know exactly how many hearts i broke?
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
well, after nine years the smörgåsbord podcast is over, thanks to all the guests who joined us each week to talk about their favorite ikea item, and of course thanks to our lovely patrons, your five dollars a month made this all possible
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
what people don't understand is that 'peak woke' occurred in 2008
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sophie chupacabra @szumm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
the artist first gained public attention after recreating chris burden's performace work 'trans-fixed' on the NPR tiny desk despite the organization's strenuous objections
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