Carly & Lil Internet reflect on their time spending late December in the USA—mostly in Maryland and Virginia—with spoken monologues on life/death cycles and the spectrum of real vs. simulation.

Part 2, written by Lil Internet, includes notes on NFT skyscrapers, Cormac McCarthy, and gracefully aging arcade machines.

This is part of two of three America Diaries we’ll be releasing in the coming days. Carly’s monologue was released on January 6, and next up we have a short, bonus essay by writer, strategist, and NM member Ian Beckman Reagan.