HeyJaredamerican in peril
a publication and podcast about all of us; the loneliness, the unease, the fun, the dissolution of it all.
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we can never forget this tiger (opens the original)
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I cracked and have begun buying bottled water again. I hate that this is something I occasionally find myself doing but am unable to stop my basest impulses in this one respect1. If you were to ask many of those close to me what my most annoying characteristic is, I would assume they would all agree: The most irritating thing about me is that I am deeply repulsed by warm tap water and will refuse it even if very, very thirsty. Most taps just don’t get cold enough for my liking; that’s fine, that
I’m going to a psychoanalyst now & other cute things (opens the original)
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My hangovers have been getting worse since I turned twenty-eight. I used to think hangovers were for other people; I bragged to friends on my actual birthday this year that I had never experienced a true hangover, that I was someone who just didn’t get them. That was true until a few months ago, when I started developing them multiple times per week in response to drinking a little bit of alcohol. Nothing major - a drink or two. Prior to this, I had assumed one would have to majorly fuck up in o
is hyperclash in the boiler room with us right now? (opens the original)
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In the interest of holding myself back from oversharing too much about my life1, I’m pivoting for a second and letting my inner critic out to play. I have a pin on my purse that says “OFFICIAL ART CRITIC - IT STINKS!” and sometimes I get asked if this is true; if I’m really an art critic, if all of it really stinks. The answer is yes. To all of it. I used to be an actual amateur critic in my early twenties, writing for random blogs, some local papers, a few magazines. It paid next to naught. I t
everything is going to happen to me! (opens the original)
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Going to make this fast because I’m sitting at an outdoor New Seasons café (New Seasons is like Erewhon if it was crunchier and constantly in a labor battle) and there’s a guy who sat on the other side of the window from me right after I sat down, facing my face, and is now eating a sandwich and staring at my laptop and I hate it so I’m going to get out of here as soon as I hit post!I like to make a video for the gallery I help organize once a year. I look forward to doing so because it makes me
my summer of george (opens the original)
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Some bad news: I was supposed to be in Oslo last week but did not go.Worse news: Norway lost the World Cup and somehow I feel responsible through some mix of obsessive magical thinking and regular old wishful self-important thinking that if only I had been there… Even worse news: My favorite jeans have popped their button off1 and I am out of sewing needles.2You’ve probably heard the “This was supposed to be the Summer of George
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