HeyJaredThe Beautiful and the Horrible
A dispatch from inside the contradiction: where beauty and horror coexist.
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You Have No Idea What an Apple Is (opens the original)
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I posit that the apple is probably the most culturally important fruit in America. The orange may want to say something about that, but the orange should sit this one out because the best name anybody could come up with for it was literally the color. Come on.<img
I Accidentally Walked Into a Christopher Nolan Movie (opens the original)
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One of the great things about living in New York is the completely random celebrity sighting. Not the premiere, not the restaurant where everyone knows celebrities go, not some event where you are technically supposed to be looking for famous people. I mean the real New York version. You are getting coffee or walking to the drugstore or trying to get home while staring at your phone, and suddenly there is somebody you have watched on a screen for twenty years standing next to you waiting for the
Don’t Normalize Him (opens the original)
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The first thing I posted after Donald Trump won in 2016 was very simple: Don’t normalize him. That was it. That was the warning. And almost ten years later, I think about it constantly, because almost everybody failed the test. Every morning I wake up and see notifications containing things that, in any previous version of American life I remember, would have seemed completely fucking insane. Trump destroys part of the White House. ICE shoots an innocent bystander and the agents will not be inve
Trump Hits Different When He Has Wrecked Your Actual Life (opens the original)
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Over the last nineteen months, Donald Trump has destroyed huge parts of my life. I have lost friends. I have lost family. My relationship with my father is effectively gone. My business has been badly damaged. I am buried in debt in a way I had never been before, and I will be lucky if I am completely out of it before the end of my life. I have watched relationships I assumed were permanent simply collapse. And one of the strangest things I have learned through all of this is that most of the pe
The Man Who Corrected “Glorious” (opens the original)
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I posted about a great wine I had, the 2021 Pierre Brisset Pommard Premier Cru, and I said it was glorious. Little did I know that the word “glorious” would turn into internet nonsense. The wine was stunning. It showed better than the previous three bottles I had, and the color was classic 2021. Unbelievable transparency, but still deep and beautiful. One of the most remarkable colors I have ever seen on a red Burgundy. It was one of those colors that makes you stop. I posted a picture of it, an
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