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Infrequent recommendations and critiques of culture that I’ve loved reading, watching, experiencing and listening to... so you might enjoy it too.
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September Recommendations from a September Virgo! (opens the original)
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Dolly Parton So much is already lore. She wrote “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” on the same day. She said no to Elvis buying rights to “I Will Always Love You” and said yes to selling it to Whitney Houston, loved the iconic version and used much of the royalties to support a Black neighborhood in Nashville. She was an uncredited producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer! She gave a $1 million early in the pandemic to COVID vaccine research and is credited with why it moved so fast. She funded s
Sportsball, Collective Effervescence and Systemic...everything! (opens the original)
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Regular readers know I do not care about sportsball and am not a fan of any team, more a fan of vibes/ enemy of your history as a colonizer. And yet I keep writing some version of this essay, usually around the Olympics, because these mega-events expose the same fascinating contradiction. With the Men’s World Cup and the Knicks taking over my city and the world, I’ve been thinking abou
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