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After I Spent All Summer Watching 2010s TV (opens the original)
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This is, technically, the part two to last week’s ramble.This year is a midterms year, which means the rate of mood readings on the deadness of the internet is increasing. Know what that means? If not, it’s fine, I’ll tell you and you can trust me because I think voting is for the weak and only did it once. Midterm years are like the petty aggravation of knowing a fruit fly is hovering around your ear. Full fed election years are like discovering their breeding grounds were made in the carcass o
I Watched 2010s TV All Summer (opens the original)
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So summer was a hoot. Dolly died. Inevitable, but it was never going to be easy on me. Nor the world that has to go on without her.There were more foreigners in my home city than I think have ever existed within the limits. Soccer people. They drove fearfully, shaking like purse dogs. No idea why. We have gentlemanly traffic dynamics here compared to all the coasts. Also, I learned the ugly way that if you’re too lazy when setting up your Substack to Stripe account, you can unintentionally dox y
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