Category: Elaborations
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Recently, I was enjoying my favorite activity: doom-scrolling Twitter and listening to Spotify. My feed was filling with news of ICE’s raid on MacArthur Park. At that moment, Spotify played Richard Harris’s cover of “MacArthur Park.” I listened to Richard Harris sing about the end of a relationship that wasn’t…
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32 isn’t much of a milestone birthday, all things considered. You don’t get many of those once you reach adulthood. People only care when you’ve reached another decade; some care when you turn 35 and 55, too. That’s just the way life is; after a certain point, the new memories…
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Dear Charlotte, You don’t know me, and you will never know me. A teenage trans girl and a thirty-something cis man don’t often inhabit the same social circles. But even if we did, the chance we might’ve had to get to know one another has now passed. You are, as…
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What does writer’s block feel like? It feels like my soul has run dry. It feels like I’m wandering through a world of endless fog. It feels like admitting defeat to the forces of entropy. There is also a feeling of rage—a wave of anger pointed at those mediocrities who…
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The image above is taken from a video Industrial Light and Magic premiered at a TED talk last month. The video, Star Wars: Field Guide, “explores what it would feel like if you sent a probe droid to a brand new Star Wars planet (sic).” The video accurately summarizes our…
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Welcome to Year Zero. President Trump announced his new tariff plan two days ago. It will go into effect tomorrow. The world’s economists, corporate executives, and stock brokers hope that Trump backs down. He won’t. Donald Trump is a coward – as all bullies are – but a persistent coward.…
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The Rattling Skeleton 