Support My Return to Housing
Support My Return to Housing
Serialized, multi-part blog posts
A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure written by ChatGPT and Chris Leach Find the ongoing adventures here. Introduction As you approach the grand city gates, weariness clings to you like a cloak, but determination fuels your steps. After years lost in the wilderness, you…
TIFF Notes Summary Part IV The seed of thought and action, the sapience at root of identity can be found deep in the obscure reaches of our selves. In every way, it’s where we begin. Underlying the events of our…
TIFF Notes Summary Part III Closing on us from the future is a primary challenge to our species. An empowering, potential-actualizing destiny for the human race is threatened. The current landscape of human existence is undermined by the pursuit of…
TIFF Notes Summary Part II People who’ve never been homeless look for the silver lining. An article of faith, it’s existence is assumed. According to this line, homelessness holds a lesson for the individual. It’s not a well defined lesson,…
TIFF Notes Summary Part I The films and media I suggested during TIFF22 present elements which piece together to describe a conceptual through line. They’re not tidy or concise. Relying on the audience’s foreknowledge of context is a habit difficult…
Thrift Store Death Spiral – Three The standard approach to dealing with problems and errors in a system is mitigation. We mitigate the probable cost of crime by employing police, and by doing things like supplying the poor with welfare…
Thrift Store Death Spiral – Two As a result of the time I spent in thrift store book sections, I found some real treasures. Those, I remember happily, were mainly passed along as gifts to friends. I remember with particular…
Thrift Store Death Spiral – One As someone who moved away from home early I often had to find ways to stretch my funds. It wasn’t an entirely unfamiliar situation. At that time, which was before Wal-Mart, before Amazon, and…