<![CDATA[Secretorum: Picture Parties]]>https://www.secretorum.life/s/picture-partieshttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hJN_!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc827a37-fdd6-4b17-92ac-745541394c90_425x425.pngSecretorum: Picture Partieshttps://www.secretorum.life/s/picture-partiesSubstackSat, 18 Apr 2026 22:39:15 GMT<![CDATA[a wild god who waits for us]]>https://www.secretorum.life/p/a-wild-god-who-waits-for-ushttps://www.secretorum.life/p/a-wild-god-who-waits-for-usFri, 31 Oct 2025 14:50:23 GMT

In lieu of my usual Halloween post (2023, 2024), a small auditory offering.

I really liked the recently released psychological horror film Rabbit Trap. I liked it so much that I wrote a poem and recorded myself reciting it over a thematic score from the films’s otherworldly soundtrack.

title: a wild god who waits for us
music: “Theme Three” by Lucrecia Dalt
words: ya boi RB

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Also, here are some sp0o0o0o0oky pictures. Enjoy.


there is a child in a secret forest who has no name
with knees on earth, she prays for us
a wild god who waits for us

May the holy madness of the hills
save them from themselves
May the shining void within
save them from their sin

let the machine rot
let the system spoil
become old in me
trust in my soil

below the stone
below the mud,
a starflame sings
deep in the blood

beneath the flesh
beneath the breath
an unspeakable mystery
neither love nor death

o’ wanderer, hearken to my call
there are still too many things that do not yet exist
go forth and bring forth
let nothing resist

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]]><![CDATA[MAD LADS]]>https://www.secretorum.life/p/mad-ladshttps://www.secretorum.life/p/mad-ladsFri, 05 Sep 2025 16:23:05 GMTI will be in Vienna, Prague, and Copenhagen from 9/11 to 9/25. Drop me a line if you live in one of those cities and are interested in connecting (rogersbacon17@gmail.com).

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]]><![CDATA[WILD, WILD WOMEN: FEMME FATALES (PART 4)]]>https://www.secretorum.life/p/wild-wild-women-femme-fatales-parthttps://www.secretorum.life/p/wild-wild-women-femme-fatales-partTue, 22 Jul 2025 12:32:59 GMT

Previously: WILD, WILD WOMEN, FLORA AND FAUNA (part 2), TECHNOLOGY SISTERS (part 3)

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]]><![CDATA[WILD, WILD WOMEN: TECHNOLOGY SISTERS (PART 3)]]>https://www.secretorum.life/p/wild-wild-women-technology-sistershttps://www.secretorum.life/p/wild-wild-women-technology-sistersSun, 13 Apr 2025 14:44:49 GMT

Previously: WILD, WILD WOMEN, FLORA AND FAUNA (part 2)

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]]><![CDATA[WILD, WILD WOMEN: FLORA AND FAUNA (Pt. 2)]]>https://www.secretorum.life/p/wild-wild-women-flora-and-fauna-parthttps://www.secretorum.life/p/wild-wild-women-flora-and-fauna-partSat, 08 Feb 2025 13:58:12 GMT

Previously: WILD, WILD WOMEN

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]]><![CDATA[WILD, WILD WOMEN]]>https://www.secretorum.life/p/wild-wild-womenhttps://www.secretorum.life/p/wild-wild-womenSat, 04 Jan 2025 16:24:10 GMT

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]]><![CDATA[SUMMER PICTURE PARTY!!!!1!!1!!!!!]]>https://www.secretorum.life/p/summer-picture-party11https://www.secretorum.life/p/summer-picture-party11Wed, 21 Aug 2024 20:35:02 GMTIt is what it sounds like—42 random pictures presented without comment for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy.
photograph by yours truly
art by yours truly

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]]><![CDATA[Oblique Strategies]]>https://www.secretorum.life/p/oblique-strategieshttps://www.secretorum.life/p/oblique-strategiesWed, 20 Dec 2023 16:04:18 GMT

Oblique Strategies is a card-based method for promoting creativity first developed by musician/artist Brian Eno and multimedia artist Peter Schmidt in 1975. Each card offers a suggestion intended to help artists break creative blocks by encouraging lateral thinking.

What follows is a selection of the Oblique Strategies that I find most helpful or interesting interspersed with a few strategies of my own (and some pictures for your viewing pleasure).

A real deck can be purchased here and you can play with a virtual deck here.

Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them

The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten

Honor thy mistake as a hidden intention

Emphasize differences

Be dirty

What wouldn’t you do?

Give way to your worst impulse

Stop assessing, start undressing

Cut in half and double. Double and cut in half

Discard an axiom

Cut a vital connection

Assimilate the absurd

Courage!

Access anxiety!

Fornicate with fear!

Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities

Question assumptions, assume questions

Short circuit (If eating peas improves virility, shovel them into your pants)

Disconnect from desire

Reduce effort, radically

Remember those quiet evenings

What would your closest friend do?

Use ‘unqualified’ people

It is quite possible (after all)

Make a sudden, destructive action; incorporate

Mechanicalize something idiosyncratic

Repetition is a form of change

Work at a different speed

Avoid all collisions

Faced with a choice, do both

Would anybody want it?

A very small object. Its center

Infinitesimal gradations

Do we need holes?

Infantilize

Use an old idea

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list

Use an unacceptable color

Simply a matter of work

Try faking it!

Be extravagant

Contain multitudes

Do something boring

Change nothing. Continue with immaculate consistency

ICYMI: Sweet Child O’ Mine (BOP #1), The Chameleon or the Egg (BOP #2)

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