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What is the expression—believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see? I’ve made references to capitalism throughout these essays, and how I think it’s bad. Big whoop. You might be sympathetic to this worldview, it might make some kind of sense to you. And yet, we…
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Often, when you find yourself in a psychiatric facility, they give you a puzzle to work on. This is, of course, after a cop takes away all your…
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Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as…
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My father is chess. I make up the rules as I go along. It was the earlier days of the internet, and he had discovered that he could find the thin Avalon…
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Note: Over the coming weeks, I’ll be posting the entirety of a manuscript I’ve been working on for several years. It is an essay collection about board…
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Mental illness is what we call it when sensitivity lies supine, exposed to the horrors of civilization. It requires enormous insensitivity, feigned or…
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Marypat always pays me the finest of compliments, which means more because she’s a charming person with an interesting name. Or does it mean less? Nah…
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The first thing I see is one of those oceanic feeling mega dumpsters. Throw yourself in, or, at the very least, throw some bit of detritus over the…
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