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Penelope Trunk told me<\/a> about an amazing website Miranda July created<\/a> for her book<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It starts like this:<\/p>\n

\"Photo<\/a><\/p>\n

and keeps:
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going:
\n\"Photo<\/a><\/p>\n

I clicked through at least 20 “pages” of her site. I never do that. I’m a skimmer. I browse through a site and skim for the stuff I think I want, then perhaps bookmark it and never go back.<\/p>\n

There is something (visceral | curious | engaging) about seeing someone’s handwriting and dirty dishes right next to each other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll admit, I’m a judger. Visiting someone’s website, I want to nitpick it. I want to find the outdated portions and secretly judge people deep down for not having an amazing proofreading staff. AH HA! You forgot to spell Guns n Roses correctly! Ha!<\/p>\n

Actually, that isn’t true. I don’t want artists and writers to have a proofreader. I want them. I want to engage with another human being and learn about them. I want to see their silly imperfect handwritten letters and be reminded I’m imperfect and interesting. You should see my wife’s cursive lower-case letter ‘a’. It is adorable. When she writes an ‘a’, it looks like Jigglypuff ate too much and decided to go to sleep in a coma of cuteness. I mistake her letter a for o. ALL. THE. TIME. And it is adorable and human. Her letters remind me that I am adorable and human and slowly gaining weight like Jigglepuff. (JP, if you are reading this: lay off the puffs, puff.)<\/p>\n

I want to see their silly imperfect handwritten letters and be reminded I’m imperfect and interesting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m excited. I think we need more Web Brutalism. We need more top-of-the-fridge whiteboards websites. We need more people being people- softer, rounder, real-er people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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