Morning Ritual — 1.21.22

Lance Curran
3 min readJan 21, 2022

I was almost subhuman in the way I was working,” she said. “Being in pain was part of my life. I didn’t think about it.
When I heard that, I actually turned to the person standing next to me and asked, ‘Did you just hear that?’”
At one point during this creation of combined music and performance art, he pulls a frowning life-sized doll out of the drum
You can chalk it up to a lack of creativity in Hollywood or the modern obsession with nostalgia, but nothing stays dead in the world of media.
Police say they were able to perform a slow-speed vehicle termination maneuver, to end the pursuit.
Turns out he did not actually get out of that cult.
Digging into your family history can be disappointing for several reasons. Most of the time, it’s disappointingly boring.
Here’s what happened yesterday. We went to the gym.
What are the questions we should be asking to find answers in our lives?
Because we’re not TikTok influencers trying to sell you something.
Did the discovery of radium happen before or after Queen Victoria’s death?
Fashion designed so that people can sit or lie on architecture that is specifically engineered to keep people from sitting or lying on it.
Unlike the allegory of the cave where the people are real and the shadows are false, here other people are the shadows…
I decided on the title Afternoon in a Candy Store to refer as much to the buttery lines of digital drawing as to the privilege of working as an artist during the crisis of a global pandemic.
January is my cruellest month. Always. And then there’s omicron, the filibuster and the stock market. This January. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Stare intensely into something and then snap your eyes shut. What do you see? It’s called an “after-image,” a retinal impression that remains after the stimulus is gone.
What the world has experienced during this pandemic is nowhere close to a worst-case scenario,” writes the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. “In view of this mixed threat environment — with some positive developments counteracted by worrisome and accelerating negative trends — the members of the Science and Security Board find the world to be no safer than it was last year at this time and therefore decide to set the Doomsday Clock once again at one hundred seconds to midnight.
A LITTLE girl who shot to fame after a side-eye meme of her throwing shade from the backseat of a car now looks unrecognisable.
So far, it’s been a bleak streak over here in America! You know what? It’s a famine of beauty. A famine of beauty, honey! My eyes are starving for beauty!
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Every now and then I want to stop existing.

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Lance Curran

What was, once, yourself, was now presented as an unreachable but irresistibly alluring image of what, in this best of all possible worlds, you could be.