Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I wish Rachel Sennott were less beautiful because then she’d be one of us but she’s not one of us. She’s beautiful! My playwriting class had an open reading on Wednesday, and the only piece of feedback that I received from the guy who runs our program is that as a writer I “go too…

THE SYNDICATE or In Attendance: Jonathan Bernstein Foreword by Mary Cavett Jonathan is one of the most heart-ful people I know. He’s generous, creative, incredibly supportive, brilliantly smart, humble (most of the time), understated, underdressed, genuinely curious, gentle, funny, and kind. He’s a lover of dogs, baseball, George Saunders, moroccan tile, Tiramisu, Suzy Misner, and…

By Lucy Walker Adams

I love: Whole Foods Hot Bar I miss: You. Dancing ballet in my basement.  I am: Violent. Itchy. Confused. Somewhere. Manual labor. String cheese. Allergic to string cheese. 12 years old. A raisin. Quitter. F in Algebra 2. F in Algebra 2 again. F in Algebra 2 three times. I was too embarrassed to tell…

I enjoy the movie Garden State. So much. I love the movie Garden State. I’m sorry if that changes your opinion of me. I promise I’m still the same girl it’s just that I think I get sad in the wrong way. I get sad in the way that men get sad because my body…

I went to a taping of Late Night with Seth Meyers and then I saw a dead body on the subway platform. I have some kind of sickness going on in my body right now and I’m not sure what it is but it makes me sore all over especially my ribs and I can’t…

I am not supposed to go to college I am supposed to be a techno punk princess do you understand? When I was a kid I took guitar lessons at some music shop with gray carpeting in the Detroit suburbs. They’d lock me away in a little halfway soundproof room and watch me pluck out…

I like to write but I dont know if that’s true. I like to talk to myself. But it’s never for myself. I talk to myself like someone else can hear it. Observations and sermons and apologies and stories I haven’t told Lucy or Lucy yet. If someone else can hear I think it’s John…

!EXTRA EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT: Girl convinced that if she keeps furnishing this collage on her bedroom mirror it will one day catch flame and once the ashes have drifted to the floor will reveal a complete and content, real human girl. This delusion of hers is a terrible film with an unsound narrative…