Meghan lives in Toronto with her editor and cat Kafka. While she writes about life and tech, she dampens the existential dread with painting, cooking and podcasts.
Archived from Aug 27, 2024: There’s an icy quality to the fridge light that broaches into the dimly lit kitchen. The air cools rapidly in the humid summer apartment and tumbles down - frosty, rolling steam. The clear plastic quickly gains a veneer of condensation and I squint my
Archived from May 19, 2024: The ebb and flow of my energy has been unpredictable lately. I frequently find myself in bed, on the floor, on the couch with no desire to rise and put my life together, let alone make something. I had hoped that the spring would bring
Archived from May 10, 2024: "If you're not quite sure if you're on the right or wrong side of the line, find the nearest line of policemen and see which way they're facing." - Bernadette Devlin There is a certain horror encroaching
Archived from May 03, 2024: Happy new year, friends. I know it’s May and I am not accepting comments about that fact, thank you. It is not a new observation to say that life is extremely strange. For something we all do, every day, all the time, it can
Archived from Jan 25, 2024: “I know what I’m meant to do, who I’m supposed to be. It took a long time to figure it out, but I know now.” Leif, Midnight Burger, Episode 28: Pockets There is something about fractals, iterations, doubles folding in on themselves that
Archived from Nov 02, 2023: It has been oddly quiet here for a place called The Cacophony, and for that I must apologise. Life has been…Happening™ over here. I haven’t been publishing for lack of writing, but rather for the type of writing that was happening. I was
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Archived from Oct 12, 2023: Sometimes, not to be too self centered, I feel like I’m being tested. It feels like our reality is a shitty video game, seeing how many things it can throw at me before I give up or take the evil route. I cannot stress
Archived from Oct 05, 2023: I came across this word while I was reading Doppelganger. ‘A Spanish word for the existential and deep gloom, zozobra also evokes a generalized wobbliness: “a mode of being that incessantly oscillates between two possibilities, between two affects, without knowing which one of those to
Archived from Sep 28, 2023: I think it will come as no surprise when I say I’m not wild about the government. Now, I’m not a libertarian, god no. Conceptually, governments can exert massive good for the communities they serve. Humans are social and have lived in groups
Archived from Sep 21, 2023: I’m currently reading Doppelgänger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein. I’m enjoying it, and she opens it with a chapter discussing the rise of personal branding. Famous for writing No Logo, she documents not only her personal journey with coming
Archived from Sep 14, 2023: One of my favourite podcasts, Trashfuture, frequently opens with a segment where one host announces the name of a start-up, reads the tagline and has the other hosts guess what the start-up does. Frequently, these start-ups are apps, like Züm, school busses with extra steps,
Archived from Sep 07, 2023: There’s this scene in Bojack Horseman (stick with me) when Bojack parks a giant boat, almost a yacht, in someone’s driveway. It pans to 2 neighbours who assert, “It’s just such an eyesore”. Obviously, the boat does not get moved. The joke