rat trash vol.1
a patchwork quilt if a quilt was made of tiktoks
I found a note in my notes app with no context from last year that simply read, “Rat trash”
I’d been wanting to delineate a more freewheeling space for my writing and with finding this note, I knew I had found the right title for this side project.
As the note was from 2023, long enough ago that I cannot speak to my mindset, I cannot know for certain if it was a conscious or unconscious reference to this 2016 IG post of mine of a rat in the trash, which I had to unarchive specifically for this moment. I must also say, this trash rat was legitimately nuclear green and absolutely massive. In case you do not want to investigate further (and by investigate I mean click on the post) I will tell you that this particular rat sighting blessing was on New Year’s Day 2016 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Rat trash is a tone poem.
Spiritually, if I had to put a tone on this project, it would point you to this particular tiktok from “Jasper The Doll”
I would be remiss to tell you that no one I have shown a Jasper tiktok to has gotten the appeal despite Jasper being a fixture on tiktok with viral sounds and high view counts. In my experience most people are repulsed by Jasper. That will not stop me.
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For those of you who do not have tiktok - Jasper is on IG. I cannot and will not explain the appeal of Jasper. I can only say this: Rat trash supports Jasper The Doll.
what you can expect is the random bits of things that would make no sense in my other newsletters.
I cannot guarantee that they will make sense here either.
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we shall see how this takes shape.
until next time,
thom(othy)
