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"I think art is the thing that fixes culture, moment by moment." - Author Ottessa Moshfegh

Sunday, April 26, 2020

Best Magazine Reads: Morrison Hotel was the last and best hurrah for The Doors

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Morrison Hotel is, by far, my favorite Doors album, and I’m not too sure how normal that is. It stands to reason that it would be a stinke...
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Saturday, April 18, 2020

The Intenet has made monsters of Millennials. How do we fix that?

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Jia Tolentino's new collection of essays, Trick Mirror, detail what it means to
 live the Millennial life. The insights kick in fast...
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Sunday, March 22, 2020

Joker is super creepy - and brilliant in pretty much every way

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It's understandable that critics had mixed
 feelings about Todd Phillips' Joker .
 We're living in different times than the
...
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Friday, March 20, 2020

Debbie Downer interlude: What about the world without us?

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This seems like a prescient time to go back 
and finish Alan Weisman's classic science
 exploration The World Without us.
 I didn'...
Sunday, March 15, 2020

Best Magazine Reads: Trash is new, and so are ways of composting it

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I don't know if composting will ever take off in the U.S. But at home in Takoma Park, the city picks it up weekly and it's a s...
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Sunday, March 8, 2020

A perfect near-spring day in DC

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If you ever have to go to a DC United game, go with my friend Peter. Not only is he just a generally great guy to hang with, he also cheers ...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Where in the world do I wanna go?

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My bucket list of places to go travel is still pretty big. I've been lucky enough to visit all the continents so far except Australi...
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Monday, January 20, 2020

Time for the Star Wars universe to come to an end for me?

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So I’ve now seen all nine ... count em, nine ... Star Wars films, and also the two loose-end ones, Rogue One and Solo. The new ones cert...
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Friday, January 17, 2020

My favorite (130+!!!) music releases of 2019

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Biggest Disappointments: I love the pop-metal band Black Mountain , but the album Destroyer is their least excellent. And it's not lik...
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Sunday, October 20, 2019

Liz Phair’s 1990s’ Horror Stories don't start out horr-ible enough

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Liz Phair is definitely one of my favorite 10 things about 1990s' rock. And that’s saying a lot, since those were the formative years ...
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