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there must be more to life than being on time
Two nights before I turned 33, I left work to find a hawk tearing a bird apart in the parking lot, the disembodied feathers catching on the breeze. One…
Mar 23
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October 2022
i'm always running from something
i push it back but it keeps on coming
Oct 6, 2022
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March 2022
forgive me // give it to me
tell me what to do, t-tell me what to do, t-t-to keep it. It’s been a while. Long enough that if I were a person with any vices left I’d wager that you…
Mar 2, 2022
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May 2021
leave the car running, i'm (still) not ready to go.
A note before we begin- The seeds of this essay were planted in 2017. It’s a year I struggle to recall fondly. It’s also a year that brought us three…
May 12, 2021
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leave the car running, i'm (still) not ready to go.
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April 2021
Rolling Stone's Top 500 - Part Six
aka, where I thought about typing out the whole title of Fiona Apple's sophomore album, talked myself out of doing so and then talked myself right back…
Apr 28, 2021
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Rolling Stone's Top 500 - Part Six
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March 2021
Rolling Stone's Top 500 - Part Five
or, The Doors were just a bunch of jazz nerds and we probably all should be.
Mar 16, 2021
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i'm overmatched / i'm half as wise
If this is flat, brother, I apologize. — I am not a runner. I can count the number of times I’ve run in the last year on one hand. On one finger. I ran…
Mar 13, 2021
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February 2021
you've got to learn to be much stronger
at times your head must rule your heart. Nina Simone, were she still with us, would be turning 88 today, and even though she isn’t here to celebrate …
Feb 22, 2021
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Rolling Stone's Top 500 - Part Four
Albums 61-80, or the section where I compare Neil Young to oatmeal, but in a good way.
Feb 20, 2021
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still set on ten to burn this house down
count the band in, then kick into overdrive… There are a number of reasons I’ve questioned my dependency on Spotify over the last few years. Reasons…
Feb 6, 2021
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Rolling Stone's Top 500 - Part Three
Albums 41-60, or someone make me a birthday cake that looks like the 'Let It Bleed' album cover, please.
Feb 6, 2021
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Rolling Stone's Top 500 - Part Three
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December 2020
Rolling Stone's Top 500 - Part Two
Albums 21-40, or, a lot of stalling and wondering why I took this on, and then remembering it's actually kinda fun to have a spreadsheet tell you when…
Dec 21, 2020
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