evan.fleischer

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

? You hear it in the distance. As the passengers wait, as the station employee waits, you wait for a dog to casually enter the frame. The logic of the image and the logic of the day makes it feel like...

1 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Excerpt

Now Delancey Jones came into town on a dust storm, okay? Matter of fact: he might have waited for a dust storm to come rolling through so he could roll on in with it. You know what I’m saying? I don’t...

1 likes · 1 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Three Things.

Hey, everyone — I have a newsletter & might start incorporating the work of my newsletter over here. (You can subscribe/take a look here .) Here are three things that have been posted on the new...

1 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Letter

My friend, I know any non-physical voice in a moment like this feels like a cardboard prop, something far off and far away, but I need you to suspend that filter for a second. I need you to believe...

2 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Three Playlists:

" Portuguese Punk ." " Turkish Psychedelia ." " La Movida Madrileña ."

1 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Excerpt from a Novel

Pip Hardy was having ice cream when he noticed a woman pass by, riding an elephant, who was standing for Parliament. He’d learn all the details beneath the phenomenon later. My forefathers and foremo...

1 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

New air-conditioning design takes energy from space

Note: this was originally published elsewhere last year. Air conditioners have historically been a known factor in its impact on the Ozone layer and the planet for decades. The damage levied on the O...

1 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

How I Want My Wikipedia Page To Be Edited After I Die

Summon a miniature conclave of Russian Orthodox priests to a laptop. Ask them how they are. Ask them if they had an appropriately holy commute. (Don’t pause for laughter.) If the laptop isn’t working,...

1 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Photo.

Took this photo a long time ago. Thought I'd share.

1 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Open Question #2:

Hey, all -- Thanks for responding to the previous open question . Something of a follow up: have you encountered any particularly 'noteworthy' moments when it comes to crypto interacting with the...

1 likes · 2 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

What keeps a valuable sports team competitive?

Note: this story was originally published elsewhere. The question: do sports teams with evergreen sales have longer championship slumps than teams who depend on winning to sell the brand? Why invest...

1 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Procrastinator's brains are different than those who get things done

Note: this was originally published elsewhere last year. Daydreaming is important — studies have repeatedly said as much — but maybe you shouldn’t daydream too much, as a recent study by rese...

1 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Elsewhere (Two Links):

Concertina (Bending Genres). Political Poem (Glass: A Journal Of Poetry)

1 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

To Aid The Blind, An Assist From Cameras

Note: this was originally published elsewhere in 2014. In two labs some 50 miles apart in Israel, computer scientists and engineers are refining devices that employ tiny cameras as translators of sor...

0 likes · 2 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Is It Really Possible To Map Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County?

Note: this was originally published elsewhere last year. If William Faulkner had ever been given enough money to recreate Yoknapatawpha County in the world, would he have done so? The short answer is...

1 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Doctors in Shetland can now prescribe a walk in nature

Note: this was published elsewhere last year. Since October 5th, Doctors in Shetland have been authorized to prescribe “ nature prescriptions to their patients .” It’s thought to be the first program...

1 likes · 2 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Five Things (12/5/19):

Highlights from the Merseyside derby . Two quick notes on Pete Buttigieg and James Harden . Kamala Harris drops out . Does anyone know/recall if Sebald had any interest in MRIs? Why not spend...

1 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Grizzly Bears

Note: this was originally published elsewhere last year. At the end of September, U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen ordered the restoration of federal protections for grizzly bears in the Norther...

1 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Open Question:

In broad strokes -- you don't have to give the game away -- what's your crypto strategy?

2 likes · 6 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

A Quick Note re: Once Upon A Time in Hollywood:

While I would recommend A.O. Scott’s review and this episode of Radio Open Source to help you flesh out a little bit more the context for the film (though I don’t know how I feel about the accurac...

2 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Open Question:

What do you wish the 'average' person understood better about cryptocurrency?

1 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Americans can and should be learning African languages

Note: this was originally published elsewhere in 2015. More Americans should learn to speak languages native to the African continent. There is a small, statistical base of speakers in the country—...

1 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

re: Nightmare Burgers

Note: this was originally published elsewhere during last year's Halloween. If you’re a fan of the podcast My Brother My Brother and Me , you’ll be aware of a segment of the show called “Munch Squad...

1 likes · 2 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Money and Athletes

Note: this story was originally published elsewhere. There have always been rich athletes, but it is not unreasonable to suggest that today — in this century — there are more rich athletes now than t...

1 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Quick Introduction:

Hi, everyone -- I'm a writer, editor, and MFA candidate based in the States. (You can read more here .) I'm pleasantly intrigued by what I've seen on this platform already and am looking forward to...

1 likes · 2 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Court-Side Vision

This is an essay about a small point — about those who aren’t necessarily misinformed or delusional, but somehow nevertheless manage to see something in a game of basketball that simply isn’t there. W...

1 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

About Ada

Ada Books is closing in August in Providence, Rhode Island after 13 years of operation. Brian Legault is the owner. It’s a particularly well-curated store — they advertise plenty of zines and I later...

1 likes · 2 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Six Writing Prompts

Write a piece of dialogue where a realtor tries to sell a home to Peter Parker without revealing Parker’s secret identity. Write a piece of dialogue where a carpet salesman offers up their thoughts...

1 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Quick note re: climate change, capital, and caution

This is a piece of writing intended to act as a suggestion of a frame, not as a substitute for action, and it begins with this: there are numerous opportunities for capital to move in such a way in th...

1 likes · 0 comments

@evan.fleischer · 4 years ago

Meet Me On The Bridge

Note: this was previously published elsewhere . One afternoon I decided to read Groucho Marx in French, because, well, why not? I had temporarily switched Boston for New York on the larkiest of lark...

1 likes · 0 comments