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For Renee Nicole Good
There’s not much I can add to the story of what happened in Minneapolis yesterday—the murder of Renee Nicole Good by agents of ICE, for the offense of having been watching them (which is not a crime), and then trying to drive away from them. I can tell you that the official stance of the Continue reading
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Donald Trump Violates International Law and the U.S. Constitution
It seems like it would be a waste of time to explain to my fellow countrymen that, if some other country were to conduct a military strike on Washington, D.C. as part of an operation to abduct the President of the United States and force him to stand trial in a foreign court, all while Continue reading
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Engagement Hustle
Too aestheticto be self-aware—one mustconsider whether senses may subvert the matterUntenable—the second half-second the quarter-sec before the rod cracks the base of the skullThe illustration of the Great Man shall bow his headin shame—your thirst for narrative is satisfiedThe little rabbitis made example of today—see he quivers dying in the demonstrationRead confessionsin the back pages Continue reading
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Let’s Make A List
I’d like to have a blog post up on Saturday morning, but it’s Friday evening and I’m simply not prepared for that. Mentally, I am just not there; my hamster wheels are slowing to a standstill, the hamsters themselves having reached their limits of exercise. You can see it in my metaphors, I’m simply out Continue reading
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Enough with this
When I first saw a screencap of the Truth Social post made by Donald Trump, in which he not only demeaned director Rob Reiner following the news that he and his wife had been brutally murdered, but claimed that Reiner’s vocal opposition to Trumpism was the root cause of his death, I didn’t think much Continue reading
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A ranking of the best Game Changer episodes
Ariele and I recently began a re-watch of Game Changer, perhaps the only game show that I would recommend not only watching every episode of, but also re-watching for added enjoyment. As fans of Dropout and its many works, the two of us naturally have opinions about Game Changer, arguably Dropout’s flagship series (especially if Continue reading
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Vocab 128 Part 26: Z
Welcome to the final installment of my weekly series, Vocab 128, in which I sit down with pen and paper and write 128 words beginning with the same letter, in more or less the order that I think of them, before scanning the page and posting it here. The result is a flex of my Continue reading
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The Horn
Jazz music is a misunderstood music, one of the load-bearing pillars of a culture that makes a habit of misunderstanding itself. Of all the kinds of music one commonly hears in America, it stands apart as the most human kind of expression—its cardinal virtue is improvisation, and it delights in the recreation of what was Continue reading
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Vocab 103 Part 25: Y
Welcome back to my weekly series, Vocab 128 103, in which I sit down with pen and paper and write 128 103 words beginning with the same letter, in more or less the order that I think of them, before scanning the page and posting it here. The result is a flex of my vocabulary Continue reading
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Are you too tired to write?
What do you write when your head is foggy, and your hands are tired? You can write about what is bothering you—how foggy your head is, how tired your hands are. You can write about the poor state of the world, if your head is just clear enough to give you an idea of what Continue reading
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