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Polyphonic braided essays on pop culture, television, music, literature, memoir, and more.
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Ginny Marshall and Old Roy (opens the original)
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I am on the school bus, another day of kindergarten. This is 1986, springtime in the Catskill Mountains. Bus number 29 has just pulled up to let us out, and Ginny Marshall is the first one off the bus. She is 18 and will graduate in six weeks. I am leaning out into the aisle of the bus, my tiny tennis shoe barely touching the black rubber floor. Who cleans the floor? Is it Old Roy the driver?I am in the driver side of the bus, sitting with my kindergarten girlfriend. In 12 years we will try and
Some People Really Are Enemies (opens the original)
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Upon a time there were two friends who both loved movies. They argued over Oppenheimer. One really liked it, noticing first how much fun he had in the loud, vibrant theater. The Other disliked it mainly because it focused too much on Oppenheimer’s relationships with women and not enough on physics, and not at all on his interest in geology.They argued over One Battle After Another. One thought it was communist propaganda bullshit. Casting Leonardo DiCaprio and Teyana Taylor, One said, glorifies
Remember When Tina Absolutely Hated Sydney? (opens the original)
THE BEAR Explained (part 3) (opens the original)
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This video series breaks down each episode of The Bear, one at a time.
THE BEAR Explained (part 2) (opens the original)
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