HeyJaredMish Mashy by Danya Issawi
Writing through the end of it all — an attempt to make sense of this world, the zeitgeist, culture, whatever, as we move through it.
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Fashion, minus the weak (opens the original)
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It’s the middle of fashion month, which means absolutely nothing to most people.That spiel about cerulean from The Devil Wears Prada 2, about a room full of people at a magazine dictating what ends up in the $5 bins at a thrift store three years later after it’s been loved and torn to bits by the populus, is a bygone myth—perhaps true of that era, but no longer so.Fashion, in its capital F sense, means something entirely different in contemporary culture. It’s nebulous and literal, a myth and th
The Hamptons are sauceless (opens the original)
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The hydrangeas here are bawdy, girthy, voluptuous, overstuffed. Puffed up beacons, limelights bursting with restrained rage, warning passersby not to peak over the pristine, trimmed hedges into the backyard where the grass, cropped at exactly half an inch, surrounds the sharp edges of a crystalline pool.There are rules here in the Hamptons. Stingy ones. No free water cups at Tate’s famous bakery, where thirst must run abundant — bottles are available for purchase and purchase alone. You must buy
To indulge is to be free (opens the original)
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The drive to write continues to prove evasive. In fact, generating anything at all seems arduous these days. Just the thought of it — creating something where only nothing existed prior — wears me out. I don’t feel burnt out, at least not in any flavor I’d recognize. Rather, the act of indulgence is just far too delicious a treat to deny.Adages ascribed to literary greats, of which I can’t remember right now, spread messages of writing as martyrdom, as self-actualization. That in order to be a r
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