this was me just freestyling and jamming about my substack

Naming ceremony

This is an associative exercise, just listing out things that come to mind, there should be clues as to how my substack should go. It’s a tone and voice exercise

Great libraries, librarians, scholarships

the switchboard operator between worlds

Brokers, trade networks, desire paths

pericles, al-mamun

heimdall, bifrost, yggdrassil

Dante, Emerson, Montaigne 

Erasmus, mersenne (clearinghouse), aldus (press)

50 year long games, chaturanga

colossus, lighthouse, beacon

Cultural institutions

Library of Alexandria

Baghdad house of wisdom

papyrus, inkwell, etc

Don’t disturb my circles

Rituals, ceremonies, symbols, shamans, talismans…

Optimism

Language-breaking, smiths

blacksmith, bellows, threads…

The symbol-weaver at the end of the world

Dreamscape

Psychotech, psychotic, imagined communities

Campbell, jung,

Syncretism, Southeast Asia, trade

Historical scenes, scenius

Rock n roll, fandom

Video game storytelling, worldbuilding

Propaganda, indoctrination, showbiz, kayfabe

Zeno’s Cybercafe 

Information superhighway, infobahn

Telecommunications

Package routing, mailmen, europe’s postbox

X’s postbox, correspondence

prometheus

screen

Dashboard

href 

World serpent, world navel, pilgrim, 

Unnamed one

Naming

Pamphleteers, manuscripts, parchment, 

Codex, ribbon, farm, press, palimpsest

Saracen foundry, world foundry, universe factory,

Speech

Optics, camera, cinema, theatre, absurd, drama

hrefgallery, glitch gallery, “glitch mob” is a great phrase

Charon, boatman, ferry, refer, toll, gate

Doors of perception

Query

Marginal revolution

Beacon cascade,

hypertext-cascade

Courage cascade,

Consciousness expansion,

Saccades and cascades

Saccade

retina

Magic-junkyard

Salvage

Scrapyard

Scrapheap

Gods 

Zenosjunkyard 

Junkyardzero

Junk 

graveyard 

Cemetery

Sigil

Dreamyard 

ruins

Farm

Literary Scrapyard

Blueprint factory

Celluloid fractals

Nervous 

Map/territory

Blueprint

Expansionism 

Talisman Factory 

Totem factory

Runeyard 

Bazaar

Cycle

Chakra

Junkboutique

Rune boutique

Festival

Fuckfest

Relic factory

runiccomplex – group of related elements,

complex

celluloidcomplex

cinemacomplex

runeyardcomplex

bluecomplex

Acidcomplex

Bone complex

citycomplex

Codecomplex

Deuscomplex 

Eroscomplex 

runichammer 

Rune colony

Project

Projections

Projector

Runesmith 

Sutra

Tantra

Proto-

cosmictemple

Edifice

Worship

Tempest

Ceremony

Myth factory

Myth 

Runesmiths

Unlettered

Illiterati 

Loop

Universe/multiverse/metaverse… verse in a song

swansong

Singsong

Runesong

Sirens

Brands

Logos

Position

orient

bazaar

Reboot bazaar

Fractal bazaar

Shadow bazaar

Hypertext bazaar

Dreambazaar 

Binsightbazaar

Phantom bazaar

Joy bazaar

Phantom complex

What music would my substack have

Askin olayim 

cyberpunk edgerunners

some acoustic slidey blues

some crunchy light overdrive telecaster 12 bar? pentatonic

some old timey miles davis jazz, trumpet and double bass

mick gordon cyberpsychosis – actually what’s the history of that music, how did it start? how do I make it?