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Personal non-fiction and personally investigative fiction. Essays and short stories. All my opinions are opinions of our collective unconscious. Thank you for your visit.
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003. trip of the day: washington, dc (opens the original)
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I remember coming home from school as a child in the early 2000s and flicking through television channels. Not mindlessly, as is the tendency today, but strategically. With a few elegant clicks of a finger, I would jump from channel 49 (Nickelodeon) over to the Food Network at channel 52. The moment a man in blue overalls began selling me Ocean Spray cranberry juice, I would go see if I was lucky enough to catch the tail end of Iron Chef. In the next moment, I would click further to Animal Plane
002. trip of the day: forever spa, chinatown (opens the original)
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I’ve been making a lot of bolognese this summer. Caramelized onions melted down over hours with garlic, ground beef, tomatoes and basil. The heat cooks the ingredients down until the whole pot becomes one homogenous simmering wonder. Spiral in some zucchini at the end, and you’ve got my favorite Sunday night plate. It’s not what one may imagine as a summer meal, especially as the humidity levels reached 76% in New York City last week. That’s close to tropical levels. But it’s something my grandf
001. trip of the day: cold spring (opens the original)
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A lot has changed since I last opened up a Substack tab on my laptop. I settled into not one but two new apartments in New York City, became somewhat of an adequate contributor to a new team at a new job… and got really bored. There is something about regimen and routine that makes me want to binge eat an entire aisle of non-perishables and gut my life. I wrote this long essay last weekend about how more things become nostalgic the older I get (31). Bleh. I just reread every word. It was very bo
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