July’s notes contain two books about mathematical proof, a psychoanalysis reading, a cluster of frameworks about how to organize effort, and a scatter of one-line ideas. From Lacan, the claim he keeps returning to is about recognition: there is no legitimate Other with the standing to grant lasting recognition, so being recognized in some limited capacity deepens the lack rather than closing it. 17 songs re-notated for a band show at Otto’s Shrunken Head. 78 notebook pages photographed and 256 doodles pulled out of them, and a freelance illustration project. Away from the desk, three trips — the Jersey shore over the Fourth, a bridal shower and venue visit, and a week at a trout lake in the Adirondacks. Continue reading →

Patrick’s vault only started keeping history on June 14th, so this issue covers about two weeks. Over about a week he pushed a stack of old college notebooks through OCR — ten subjects, photographed page by page and fed to an AI agent — and the content is transcription, with no commentary layered on top. What the archive is for remains open, including to him. Elsewhere: an argument that twentieth-century architecture dropped ornament not because carving got expensive but because it got cheap, four films read for their theology, and progress on a sculpture that will be a custom ornament at his wedding. Continue reading →