CeleryKills

  • Coffee Shop Epistemology and the Protestant Freedom Story

    Tracing how martyr narratives become modern constitutional assumptions, and why that trace bends back on itself Last November, I sat in a rainy Seattle coffee shop, overhearing two graduate students argue with the intensity of people who have never lost… Continue reading

    Coffee Shop Epistemology and the Protestant Freedom Story
  • Atheist Jesus and the Unexpected Birth of a Meme

    A week ago, in the middle of one of those endlessly recurring social media discussions about whether atheism is somehow a religion, someone dropped a comment that immediately stood out from the noise: “So, we should start praying to atheist… Continue reading

    Atheist Jesus and the Unexpected Birth of a Meme
  • Adam, Eve, and the Trouble with Being Obvious

    How Language Keeps Calling Things What They Are, Against Better Judgment I keep tripping over the fact that we name things with words that are just… descriptions, as if we ran out of imagination and decided that the thing itself… Continue reading

    Adam, Eve, and the Trouble with Being Obvious
  • Five Herded Categories and the Problem of Hunger

    On Proptaku’s “Food Groups” shirt, hedgehogs, and the limits of nutritional order We were at a public garden in the early part of summer, the kind of place that tries to organize nature into something legible without fully succeeding. Gravel… Continue reading

    Five Herded Categories and the Problem of Hunger
  • Turns Out, Everyone Is Doing Magic

    Or, The Long History of Naming the Same Thing Twice Magic and Christianity sit across from each other like two mirrors angled slightly off-axis. Look closely and you see not opposition but recursion, a looping of gestures, words, objects, and… Continue reading

    Turns Out, Everyone Is Doing Magic
  • Myth, Cold Brew, and the Problem of Meaning

    On stories that organize reality and refuse to stay still I keep thinking about how Facebook comments arrive like weather systems. One minute you are scrolling, iced coffee in hand, the next you are ankle-deep in a small philosophical storm… Continue reading

    Myth, Cold Brew, and the Problem of Meaning
  • Three Scales, One Temperature, and the Hedgehog Problem

    On Proptaku’s “Temperature” shirt, measurement, and the quiet comedy of 27 degrees We were not in a coffee shop this time. We were on a bus headed toward Mount Rainier, the kind of trip where the scenery does most of… Continue reading

    Three Scales, One Temperature, and the Hedgehog Problem
  • Signals, Signs, and the Things We Call Forecasts

    On the Continuity Between Ritual Interpretation and Data-Driven Prediction Algorithms show up in my life like quiet priests of a new order. Not robes, not incense, just a feed that knows what I might click before I do. I don’t… Continue reading

    Signals, Signs, and the Things We Call Forecasts
  • Meme Remixes Updated

    So, a quick and useful update… We’ve been adding so many new remixes and original memes that the simple repository has been updated with both page by category and more fun remixes. Meme Remixes continue to be available for general… Continue reading

    Meme Remixes Updated
  • Hedgehogs, Heat, and the States of Matter

    On Proptaku’s shirt, thermodynamics, and the quiet comedy of phase transitions Proptaku’s shirt is not subtle. It reads like someone decided that the periodic table needed more quills. “The States of Matter as demonstrated by hedgehogs” sits across the chest… Continue reading

    Hedgehogs, Heat, and the States of Matter