cody frank

ukases of habit

cody — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:52:06 +0000

I saw Bright Eyes in concert last night. Conor Oberst seems to be doing okay. last weekend, walking through Berkeley, at the corner of Solano Avenue and Modoc Street, in front of a Wells Fargo, Jordan alerted us to a wad of $120 on the ground. the cash had been folded as though to be […]

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absurdities and paradoxes

cody — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:58:26 +0000

some kind of clarity has dawned in my intellectual life, but like the light of the sun I can’t glimpse it directly. last post I wrote about Bertrand Russell, because I was inexplicably compelled to pick up the one book of his I have, Unpopular Opinions, and flip to an essay at random. as is […]

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undelete your account

cody — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:21:07 +0000

I’m not on Instagram any more. that means there’s nowhere to put the pictures I’m starting to take again but here. Bertrand Russell wrote that in the modern world, it’s become difficult to pursue the highest ideals of the intellectual life and that we moderns live in the “most parochial” era since Homer. by this […]

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withdraw to remain

cody — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 23:19:15 +0000

I came across a recently created Instagram account for a local “social club.” I’ve lived in Ventura nearly 10 years, and I have succeeded in making fewer than that number of friends in that time, many of whom I would not still consider friends. this “social club” purports to be a solution to a frequent […]

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economy of attention

cody — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:07:53 +0000

lately I haven’t been very good at directing my attention. throughout the day I snap into the realization that I’ve frittered away the better part of several hours doing nothing worthwhile. this even though I’m almost entirely removed from the social media ecosystem, down to less than 15 minutes a day on Instagram. it pains […]

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pursuing my nightmares

cody — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:53:52 +0000

i dreamt that i was in an unfamiliar city, trying to get to a park about a mile and a half away. i was in someone else’s house, and there was a kid who was waiting for me to take him with me to the park. i repeatedly looked at the gps map to ensure […]

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fire? walk with me.

cody — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 20:43:23 +0000

a couple things have happened in the last few weeks that it would be prudent for me to think publicly about, if that’s what this blog is for (haven’t posted in a month but whatever). both are about the only things the internet has talked about until two days ago, when I’m given to understand […]

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cody — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 23:46:29 +0000

been feeling particularly caged in by the Black Iron Prison lately (the world is a vampire, history is a nightmare, etc. etc….) in no small part due to the terms of agreement I didn’t read before signing up for this particular lifestyle I have: not particularly luxurious, but comfortable, a job not particularly soul crushing, […]

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what year is this?

cody — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 03:09:02 +0000

this morning before work I watched a video that I’d seen logged or listed by a few insane randos I follow on Letterboxd. it’s a video produced by something called “Sound Photosynthesis,” editing together stock/historical footage with a couple recordings of Terence McKenna explaining his “Timewave Zero” theory. according to him, using a software model […]

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that’s the story, see

cody — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:12:31 +0000

currently reading Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett. on a bit of a noir kick, having watched Laura, Double Indemnity, The Big Heat, and No Country for Old Men all in the last month. noirs reveal to me just how shaky my grasp of plot is. I’m great at being carried along by a movie or […]

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