charming short video of a man in manhattan whose home is a bit like a junk shop - charming, utterly charming.

"Cheese is plentiful in all holds of Skyrim, which gave me a first vector to channel my energies towards once the Breezehome was mine. Wheels and wedges soon became my most sought-after loot. I’d even re-enter cleared dungeons immediately on exit, thinking I’d missed one. I was dumping cheese in Lydia’s bedroom from the day I got the keys and within a few weeks, had filled one corner to the ceiling and covered her bed in eidar stilton. However, my cheese hoarding came to an end 100 hours in, when the game intervened to save itself. A friend challenged me to do Unrelenting Force in my cheese room. The frame rate immediately hit single digits – and has never fully recovered."

"Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers. ... When nobody’s around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning there’s twice as much of it. It always gets more and more. ...

The entire universe is moving toward a final state of total, absolute kippleization." ... FROM DICK'S ELECTRIC SHEEP ... JUST THROW ALL THAT SHIT OUT

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"Make three piles (or bins) of stuff: Keep, Donate, Discard. (Avoid my mistake of making a fourth pile called Undecided that you simply wind up moving to another part of the house.)" ... LOL, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN FASCINTED BY THIS FORM OF MENTAL ILLNESS ... "By cleaning out his stuff and my own, I will spare my children a horrible task when I’m gone." ... AMEN, THAT'S ONE OF THE GREAT GIFTS YOU CAN LEAVE YOUR CHILDREN

"Last month Jane Bennett gave a talk at New York’s New School entitled “Powers of the Hoard: Artistry and Agency in a World of Vibrant Matter”. She was interested in the question of whether or not compulsive hoarders have a particular affinity for matter, specifically, the matter of/in the things they so assiduously collect. The purpose of this post is to ask a similar question about trumpet players and their mouthpieces. Some have only a few, while others have hundreds."