Watercolor and gouache, by JD, 2023 Some objects have their memories grafted onto them. No early attachment, no affective charge, is original to this box. I recall quite clearly the afternoon I acquired it in Somerville, Massachusetts in November, 1989. I was with two friends who liked to forage in shops that exist in the zone between thrift and vintage, without ever rising to the pretentious or expensive level of “antiques”. There the castaway items of material culture appear on shelves like the residue in tidelines along the shore. The unmatched cups, plates, picture frames and novelties have the same statistical distribution as the partial sea shells, plastic bottle caps, and creatures whose remains are tangled with the seaweed. You think you might find anything, some hidden treasure overlooked by others. That guiding myth forces eyes into focus among the bits of worn and faded bric-a-brac offered on the crowded shelves.
Will likely leave SubStack and Lollipop Boxes and hope that JD: ABCs also moves! According to a piece written by a Substack publisher and published by The Atlantic on November 28, about this platform:
“Some Substack newsletters by Nazis and white nationalists have thousands or tens of thousands of subscribers, making the platform a new and valuable tool for creating mailing lists for the far right. And many accept paid subscriptions through Substack, seemingly that ban attempts to ‘publish content or fund initiatives that incite violence based on protected classes’...Substack, which takes a 10 percent cut of subscription revenue, makes money when readers pay for Nazi newsletters.”
From our perspective as Substack publishers and subscribers, it is unfathomable that someone with a swastika avatar, who writes about “The Jewish question,” or who promotes Great Replacement Theory, could be given the tools to succeed on the SubStack platform. And yet they’ve been unable to adequately explain their position.
Will likely leave SubStack and Lollipop Boxes and hope that JD: ABCs also moves! According to a piece written by a Substack publisher and published by The Atlantic on November 28, about this platform:
“Some Substack newsletters by Nazis and white nationalists have thousands or tens of thousands of subscribers, making the platform a new and valuable tool for creating mailing lists for the far right. And many accept paid subscriptions through Substack, seemingly that ban attempts to ‘publish content or fund initiatives that incite violence based on protected classes’...Substack, which takes a 10 percent cut of subscription revenue, makes money when readers pay for Nazi newsletters.”
From our perspective as Substack publishers and subscribers, it is unfathomable that someone with a swastika avatar, who writes about “The Jewish question,” or who promotes Great Replacement Theory, could be given the tools to succeed on the SubStack platform. And yet they’ve been unable to adequately explain their position.
I recognize everything about Cambridge/Somerville/Harvard changing cities, etc.!
love where you take this
Such a sweet little memory saved in a box.