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Standing Up for Sisyphus
I’ve been thinking more and more about expanding and contracting lately. I seem to get fuller with each expansion. I’ve grown a lot in the last three months. I can feel that I am a different person, and right now I feel like a stronger, more capable person.
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Helsinki Bus Station Theory of Creativity
Several years ago in the Guardian, Oliver Burkeman wrote a piece called This column will change your life: Helsinki Bus Station Theory. It’s about how difficult it can be as a creative person to find your way to making work that feels like it’s uniquely yours. Helsinki Bus
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Aren’t Fit to Govern
House Republicans can’t take up issues like protecting voting rights or pass budgets on time. But it’s good to know they’re concerned with freedom for refrigerators. All told, House Republicans intended to take up such important measures this week as the “Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act,
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Prune Juice, Courage, and the person I want to Be
I got the stomach flu recently, and in the process of recovering have been suffering from some major constipation. This is how you know this will be a fun post. I decided to take something, but didn’t want to take a chemical, so I went for prune juice. We’
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Apolitical Pablum
If country music is about being from the South, she playfully rejoins, why isn’t Houston’s gritty “chopped and screwed” style sufficiently country? If country music is about murder ballads that romanticize the darkest, most transgressive human desires, why isn’t it romantic when a Black woman is the
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White Identity Politics
Just by being Black, a woman, popular and impervious to country music’s gatekeepers, Beyoncé has made a political album. Puzzling over who is country enough to sing love songs to wheat fields and big trucks only seems prosaic. Big Country — the Nashville-controlled, pop-folk music that commodifies rural American fantasies
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Dr. Brad Rosenheim: “@Gaysis @actuallyautistic A re…” - Climate Justice Social
A relatively new release from Netflix is Spaceman, with Adam Sandler. Definitely not a comedy, but an interesting mix of futuristic space film with slow action, soft voices, and calm music. No laser sword fights or high speed spaceship battles, just a person’s inner struggle with loneliness as they
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This seems like the quietest start to Autism Awareness month that I've experienced. I don't feel very aware of it. The special awareness month. Very aware of the autism.
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the singularity is playing the stripes of my dad
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Manufacturing discontent
These strategies of outright reaction bind many rural and impoverished urban communities and play directly into the hands of major industries in the agricultural and extractive energy sectors by disavowing a regulatory culture and measures designed to protect labor and the environment. This is neoliberalism with a vengeance, one that
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Joe Flaherty, ‘SCTV’ and “Freaks and Geeks” star, dies at 82 | AP News
“He crushed as border guard in Stripes. Couldn’t be more fun to have him heckle me on the golf course. The nicest guy you could know. Genius of a comedian. And a true sweetheart. Perfect combo. Much love to his kids and thanks to Joe for all the greatness