Jordan Wood

Jordan Wood

Syracuse, NY
Oct
24
October 22: Your patterns are still in place.

October 22: Your patterns are still in place.

When you take a recommendation from someone else, you take a little bit of them into your own index and when you recognize your own tastes in the preferences that someone else has left behind, well, it’s a powerful gift.
6 min read
Oct
22
Sable: To glide, and perchance, to vibe

Sable: To glide, and perchance, to vibe

In literature, an ellipsis is a gap in the action of the story where the reader jumps in and fills
4 min read
Oct
16
October 16 - It’s such a funny thing, a mystery allure

October 16 - It’s such a funny thing, a mystery allure

When I started writing The Crossover Appeal I kept coming back to the word, dilletante. Generally speaking, dilletante is a
7 min read
Oct
09
October 9 - Never saw you coming but I saw the smoke

October 9 - Never saw you coming but I saw the smoke

It's been sort of a weird week, right? Maybe the Zuckerberg outages threw things out of whack more
6 min read
Oct
04
Cover image for "real pretty", a Spotify Playlist for the fall.

real pretty - a rotating playlist for the colder months

It's the first Monday of October baby and you know what that means. Sweaters, cider, and singer-songwriter shit.
Oct
04
May 29: The one with the tiny man in it

May 29: The one with the tiny man in it

Who knows what machinations lurk inside the mystery box of knowing and being known, it's just the way things are.
6 min read
Oct
02
A screenshot of the video game Sable.

October 2 - Imagine choosing what you want to be?

Consider this your save the date for coming back to your autumnal self, when you pull what you love in close and ready yourself for the cold.
6 min read
Aug
08
Top 50 Singles of 2020: K-pop Edition (#50–26)

Top 50 Singles of 2020: K-pop Edition (#50–26)

Someone I follow on Twitter was wondering the other day about whether or not the quarantine experience has freed people
11 min read
Aug
08
Vesper Flights by Helen MacDonald: A Review

Vesper Flights by Helen MacDonald: A Review

> It's so dark now and I cannot see myself. But the song continues, and the air around
4 min read
Aug
08

Exhalation by Ted Chiang: A Review

> And words were not just the pieces of speaking; they were the pieces of thinking. The novum is the
4 min read