HeyJaredDIY Golems
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One Year of DIY Golems (opens the original)
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One year ago, I posted a disjointed would-be manifesto about golem-building to an audience of 11 people.1 Today, I’m emailing 440 of you, in 37 states and 47 countries, to say thank you, and to reflect a bit on one year of DIY Golems, this bizarre little side-project that has quietly become one of my most satisfying creative outlets.A </
Santa Claus Is Real (opens the original)
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Santa Claus, it turns out, isn’t just real - he’s an American citizen. And a monk. And an NYU film school graduate. And a politician.Born Thomas O’Connor, the Right Reverend Santa Claus OAC is an activist who served as a City Council member for almost ten years in North Pole, Alaska. Yes, that is his legal name. Yes, there is a city in Alaska named North Pole. In fact, if you write ‘Santa, North Pole’ on an envelope and affix enough postage…it probably ends up there, in the city where
In Defense Of Nepo-Babies (opens the original)
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The family lore held that he was from Hartford, Connecticut, just like us. He was a distant cousin on my dad’s side. Maybe he’d changed his name?One thing was for sure: I was related to the scarecrow from THE WIZARD OF OZ.<img alt="" class="sizing-n
All Dialogue Is Mistranslated (opens the original)
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I try to steer away from the hot topic du jour around these parts. That’s partly because, frankly, I only saw OBSESSION last week.1 But I also feel that it’s best - that it produces the most interesting material - to follow your own bliss. There are a lot of people writing about SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY. Do I really have much to add?But I’ll admit…I couldn’t resist the brouha
Popping Open A Live Crab (opens the original)
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I’ll leave the arguments about Substack’s new AI detector to other, smarter voices - suffice to say, I think my three-and-a-half-thousand wor
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