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THE UNEXPECTED UNION  —  Issue 71    July 24 2022   —  OF UNEXPECTED THINGS 
Author John Paul Brammer begins his stint as guest editor of a series on surrealist methodologies here at Varyer with a contribution of his own. Embrace the expanse of deep time and read on.
 
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Life on Other Worlds

What exists beyond us? What could exist? Venture into John Paul Brammer's Life on Other Worlds and discover the multifacted and multidimensional possibilities offered by speculative biology. 

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John Paul Brammer is an author and illustrator from rural Oklahoma. His first book, ¡Hola Papi!, is based on his popular advice column of the same name and was released in June 2021 to critical acclaim, twice being named an Editors' Choice in The New York Times Book Review and being selected as a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.

⛓ Slackables ⛓
 

One Slackables timeline in one specific dimension was almost late this week because we were falling down a CERN wormhole  ≻  Houseplant, Seth Rogan’s coveted line of weed-tinged objects, is now available in the Midwest for the first time, only at Asrai Garden  ≻  Vogue Business is using proprietary data to share weekly trend insights from TikTok  ≻  But why aren’t they doing that for Instagram?  ≻  Because it’s trash?  ≻  Or because it’s dead?  ≻  We love La Guardia now  ≻  Marcus J. Moore digs into the glaring omission of Black women in the experimental jazz doc Fire Music  ≻  ISC sets up this performance of Miles Davis doing Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” in Tokyo  ≻  More fascination with Gen Z’s nostalgia fixation  ≻  But there’s more to it than the lazy concept of nostalgia (just ask Bob Lefsetz)  ≻  Especially now that genres have been replaced with moods  ≻  This amazing treatise from 1901 on atmospheric thought, chromatic auras, and spiritual synesthesia is reviewed here in full color  ≻  Some “hot” closure to last week’s controversy in Varyer #lunchtalk  ≻  Sad moment in facts: the Desus and Mero brand is no longer strong  ≻  Who says wealth is at odds with empathy and compassion? Lots of research!  ≻  Cool visualization that compares the sizes of the tiniest little things  ≻  New phase of matter just dropped.

“To see something like yourself arising on another planet, in another place and time, it can make you hopeful in a lonely universe.”
— John Paul Brammer, Life on Other Worlds, 2022
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