This is how it feels to ride elevators in Souls games

This guy in a Trivago ad I keep getting on Tubi with some truly nightmarish veneers keeps reminding me of that story “The Teeth” from In a Dark Dark Room

Periodically I get random bits of movie dialogue stuck in my head like musical earworms. I’m currently saddled with Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs saying “was it a butterfly?” — choosing to interpret this omen as my subconscious mind’s way of screaming at me to give this app another chance.

I took three semesters of Spanish in undergrad and the only phrases I retained are “asi asi” and “mas o menos.” This speaks to a powerful ambivalence at the core of my being.

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