HeyJaredREAL LIFE LOVE STORIES
Songs, stories, and films from a life lived wide. True love, travel, memory, and becoming. Published slowly.
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Suspected Spam (opens the original)
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Your telephone is an essential piece of business infrastructure. Someone causes it to ring. You stop editing, producing, talking to a client, eating lunch, whatever you’re doing. You look at the phone.Suspected Spam.Again.And again.And again.The cost to the caller is nearly zero. The interruption cost is transferred to you.That’s one of the reasons this problem has become so infuriating.When the Phone Meant BusinessWe have been in business since 1981.<a class="image-link
IN THE CASE OF SYDNEY SWEENEY (opens the original)
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Here we go again.A beautiful woman takes off most of her clothes, somebody points a camera at her, and other women begin debating whether she has somehow set the women’s movement back.This time the woman is actress Sydney Sweeney. She appears in a deliberately provocative campaign for Novig, a sports prediction market, wearing little or nothing while footballs and other sports equipment strategically cover her body. Female athletes around the world have responded angrily, arguing that the campai
Generational Head Butt: (opens the original)
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This morning I went looking for one of my own songs.That sounds simple enough.In 2024, I released a song called “Coconut Water” under the name Candace Love. The song grew out of a poem I had written, based on a true story recounted to me during a hike, about a sweet, sensual moment in Copacabana, Brazil.Two people meet near the beach. He offers her coconut water. She is suspicious. He is persistent. They talk. They sit on the beach. Eventually they go swimming in the Atlantic.They kiss in the oc
Munchkinville on Mount Soledad: (opens the original)
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For decades, one of San Diego’s most beloved urban legends lived quietly on the slopes of Mount Soledad.It was called Munchkinville.Nearly everyone who grew up in San Diego heard the story. Hidden among the winding streets overlooking the spectacular La Jolla coastline was a tiny neighborhood where, according to local lore, some of the actors who portrayed the Munchkins in the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz had settled after the film. Their homes were said to be perfectly scaled for little people
Butthead: A True Tail (opens the original)
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Everyone thinks they choose their pets. You go to the shelter, you look into a pair of pleading eyes, you sign the papers. But anyone who has ever been owned by a cat knows the truth: cats do the choosing. And in 1994, an orange and white tabby chose us.Mark and I were living in City Heights then, right up the block from the barrio, in what I always thought of as a “United Nations” neighborhood. Vietnamese, Mexican, Somali, Cambodian, Ethiopian, people of every culture living side by side, cooki
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