Content:
This episode is recorded outside on the go, so the audio quality is not as high as I would like. I talk about living through home renovations.

Referenced:
Dead cat microphone windscreen

Content:
In this episode, I go on riffing on the stuff I talked about in CEP-016, an then I share something I made when doing other things I normally do was off the table.

Referenced:
- Logic Pro
- Ghostbusters
- Derrida Writing & Difference

Contents:
1. Episode 016 is the start of Season 2. QTS is now QCP.
2. I'm out of sorts because my routines have been very thrown off.
3. The other day, I tried to read some Derrida

Referenced:
- The Philistines Jr. Tarquin's half-assed mission statement (Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube)
- Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida
- Spray foam insulation

A very cool thing happened to me earlier this week. I had taken my two older kids out to eat at this hotdog place they both love. As we walked back to the car, I pointed out the almost full moon to the kids. Then we got in the car and started to drive. As we did this, the moon remained visible, but I had to make a few turns to get us home. The moon remained visible the whole time but moved from one side of the car to the other.

My middle kid, who is three, asked me, "Why is the moon following us?"

I became excited when he asked this because one of my earliest memories is of leaving a restaurant with my family and watching the moon stay in the same spot in the sky as the car drove us home. And do you know what I asked? The same question my kid asked me, "Why is the moon following us?"

I also remember my mom asking me why I asked that question and trying to explain to her that the car had driven what seemed like a long way to my little kid's brain, and the moon just kept up. Obviously, it was following us.

When I asked my kid why he asked this question, he said a version of the same thing.

How wild is that?!

Content:
I talk about

• The Weather
• Buying books and then reading them... or... as is more likely, not reading them.
• WWE Elimination Chamber
• [S][J][P] - Surplus Jouissance Projects.

Referenced:

• WWE
• Elimination Chamber 2024
• Peacock

INTRO:
It has been too long since I last made a QTS. Here is episode 013.

REFERENCED:

• Cyberpunk genre
• These dino eggs from Lakeshroe Learning
• Joe Frank
• Anne Carson's Grief Lessons: four Plays by Euripides (Amazon)

Content:
In her post titled __, Clare Devlin writes:

Minimalism is, I think, about not being tormented by the insatiability of desire.

However, the desire to become more minimal can become as distracting and life-complicating as the desire that a minimal life works to be an antidote to.

Disclaimer: I’m not a minimalist, but I think minimalism is interesting, and reading about it often gives me things to think about, which I find interesting and valuable.

I’m going to attempt to put what I believe is the difference between helpful minimalism and problematic minimalism in Lacanian terms:

Helpful Minimalism — Is when people see the right mix of full/presence v. empty/absence as something that is always outside of what they have, as something that is _an object cause of desire_ (i.e., an object _a_). Arriving at a perfect minimal lifestyle is not the aim; it is the cause of an ongoing project of rendering one’s life full-and-empty-enough.

Problematic Minimalism — Is when minimalism becomes a thing that a person needs to do or accomplish when being minimal becomes a frustrating and distracting demand from a master that can’t ever be entirely pleased.

Contents:
In this episode of QTS, I talk about getting a $233 ticket for touching my phone at a red light, my dislike of big things (government and business), and how a fine like this could affect people who are not in my position.

Referenced:
The Unthanks (Spotify, Apple Music)
True Detective season 4
Cook Country Clerk of Court