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monthly digest: september 2026 (opens the original)
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For reasons I do not entirely understand, there are a lot of songs about September. In the playlists where I collect songs that mention months, the September playlist is easily the fullest so far. (If I was doing this with every song that I’d ever heard, December would probably be the front-runner, but December is cheating.) Presumably September is so popular because of something about how the word sounds…?Here we goooooooo—September in postsAfter pointing out that <a href="https://www.notebook.
sooooomething we all can agreeeeee on (opens the original)
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There’s a clip from, I want to say, the Red press cycle, where Taylor gets an award and says something like “thank you to the fans—you are the longest and most successful relationship of my life.” In my memory this is also the same time she said she was happy that she never saw Swifties being mean online. How things change… anyway. A relationship that’s not quite as long as that with the fans, but is definitely up there, is her relationship with the haters. Her first true contra the haters
finish what you start (opens the original)
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Spirited Away was my entry point to Ghibli films. My mother got it from Blockbuster because she’d heard it was good and thought we could watch it together. (That’s how I remember it, anyway.) I was so consumed with anxiety about what she was thinking about it that I barely could follow the movie. I surely have watched it again between now and then, but I don’t remember what I thought about it. Rewatching it now, after watching all these other Ghibli movies in chronological order, what I’m really
new writing: envy (opens the original)
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For The Lamp’s symposium on the “Seven Deadly Sins,” I contributed an essay on “envy,” which I consider the most prevalent sin of our time:Two fish are two fish, two stones are two stones, two worms are two worms, and two paramecium are actually two paramecia, but two people are three people. There is you, there is me, and there is the unholy ghost. That is, th
patient f0r the enc0re: 0pen thread (opens the original)
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That’s right… it’s a Showgirl deluxe. And thus, an open thread. I don’t know if I’ll have a Showgirl deluxe review coming, because I have some edits I have to turn in, but we’ll see. I did say in my actual Showgirl review I thought the album maybe needed more songs. So there you go. Taylor agreed. To cut against the grain of dominant Taylor criticisms I think she’s better when she lets herself be excessive. I think if you look at the movement from Taylor Swift to Fearle
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