Homemade creme brulee isn’t necessarily hard to make. The ingredients aren’t even very expensive, just cream, eggs, sugar and vanilla. What makes creme brulee an indulgence is the time and preparation needed for that gentle crack to break open the sugar, revealing a smooth cool custard. Bring the spoon to your lover’s lips; give them the first bite.
In December 2025, Jordan, of Times New, and I submitted a project to a hackathon. We made an AI agent tweet and neither of us are developers. We used templates and AI to build this agent, which by the way is very stupid. The agent needs more work before it really starts to save time with automation, or do anything interesting on its own.
Slow, Sensual and Messy
In the early 2000’s, Good Vibrations took out a regular full page ad on the back of the local free newspaper. It featured a picture of a young woman, wearing a men’s collared shirt, loose and messy, drinking a cup of coffee, with hair that was knotted way up high, framing her face. The caption read, “Another sleepless night, brought to you by Good Vibrations.”
At the very first Coachella, Rage Against the Machine played before Tool, who headlined. At 21 years old, my oversized Sears overalls, over a bikini, did not protect me from mixing my sweat with anyone else next to me, pressed against the barricade at the stage. Moshing was intense before Rage Against the Machine even got onstage.
Slow, Sensual and Messy
If your robots take you away from sweat and tangled hair, I wish better for you. If your robots give you more time with the things you care about, then I celebrate what you’re doing.
While the robots talk to each other, optimizing for engagement (with more fucking robots), the world they move in will get more and more vanilla, no blemishes, no accidents. That sounds great, as long as they’re doing boring and tedious work for us.
You and I can go about moshing and making love and baking creme brulee!
Slow, Sensual and Messy
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