SPIRAL by RVC

Hi, this is Real Quick! The newsletter within a newsletter where I share mini-reviews of all of the books I'm reading, movies I'm watching, and TV shows that are on in the background while I'm playing Stardew Valley Palia. You can (or cannot, I’m not the boss of you) read the most recent review below: The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I thought this book was going to be one thing, but it turned out to be another thing, and you know what?

Hi, this is Real Quick! The newsletter within a newsletter where I share mini-reviews—I’m talking 500ish words or less—of all of the books I'm reading, movies I'm watching, and TV shows that are on in the background while I'm playing Stardew Valley. If you want to subscribe or unsubscribe or whatever, you can do that below. Thank you and or sorry! First Time Caller,B.K. Borrison ⭐️⭐️⭐️¾ This book is doing… a lot.

If you know me, you know that I can’t stay in one place for very long. The longest I’ve lived anywhere—at least since leaving home for college—is a little over two years. Two years in any given apartment for the almost 10 years I lived in Brooklyn; two years in any given city since I left there. It is unhinged, and frankly, the situation has gotten unbearable. I’m tired of moving. I’m tired of having no sense of permanence.

Hi, this is Real Quick! The newsletter within a newsletter where I share mini-reviews—I’m talking 500-words or less, but probably way less—of all of the books I'm reading, movies I'm watching, and TV shows that are on in the background while I'm playing Stardew Valley Palia. If you want to subscribe or unsubscribe or whatever—I barely understand how Substack works sometimes—you can do that below.

Hi, this is Real Quick! The newsletter within a newsletter where I share mini-reviews—I’m talking 500-words or less, but probably way less—of all of the books I'm reading, movies I'm watching, and TV shows that are on in the background while I'm playing Stardew Valley. If you want to subscribe or unsubscribe or whatever—I barely understand how Substack works sometimes—you can do that below.

Hi, this is Real Quick! The newsletter within a newsletter where I share mini-reviews—I’m talking 500-words or less, but probably way less—of all of the books I'm reading, movies I'm watching, and TV shows that are on in the background while I'm playing Stardew Valley. If you want to subscribe or unsubscribe or whatever—I barely understand how Substack works sometimes—you can do that below.

Okay, hello, HI! Welcome to the very first issue of Real Quick! The newsletter within a newsletter that’s gonna just be a shitload of mini-reviews—I’m talking 500ish words or less—of all of the books I'm reading, movies I'm watching, and TV shows that are on in the background while I'm playing Stardew Valley. If you want to subscribe or unsubscribe or whatever—I barely understand how Substack works sometimes—you can do that below.

I’m sitting in the waiting room at the retina specialist, waiting for my doctor to spare me five minutes of her time, to shine lights into my eyeballs at every possible angle. Whenever she does, I can see each and every vein—it’s weird to see with your eyes what’s in your eyes. Creepy.

It’s been a while since a white man touched my hair at someone’s wedding, but I’m absolutely thrilled to report the nearly 10-year streak is over. My younger self could have never dreamed of still being the victim of such a wandering hand in my late-mid-30s. And yet there I was, minding my business, drinking my wine, micro dosing disassociation, when the to-be-groom placed his entire palm on my skull and started kneading.

Remember when I said SPIRAL was coming back and I promised a podcast and I was overly hopeful about my capabilities, remember? I meant it at the time, I swear. I chatted with Jin, aka LumiJin—an angel baby and literally the only friend I made in LA—for one to three hours, talking about her music process and all the things she was spiraling about, and honestly it was great. Hearing my laugh recorded and played back to me was less great, but I digress.