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bildungsroman Gotterdammerung ex machina is a God of sons Ragnarok and roll and revelation hajj crusade jihad pilgrimage addiction to external validation schadenfreude und s’il vou...

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the demons disrepair and despair have taken up their dispensation their determined divisions of our divinity our maybe-souls but brother we’re still buffeted by our lion’s shares of poetry...

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Every time I see a Christmas commercial for a luxury car, I ask myself if Western Civilization was actually worth it at all. Diamond ads, even if you weren’t a scam that murders, wouldn’t t...

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We teach each other lessons in what it is to be ourselves and be alive. Any meaning to life beyond that is largely moot. To allow the universe to better understand itself? To please some hair...

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frosty the snowman was on the run from death, this much was clear the subtext was his desperation to cram all the experiences of a life into, no pun intended, his one day in the sun trying to ...

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first they’ll come for the Muslims but your ass won’t care you’re not Muslim you’ll even fool yourself into believing that this actually makes you safer somehow asshole then they’ll co...

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husk label on the outside with your name your history your credit card number your diplomas family tree whatever all that’s still there all your signifiers sound as the pound the whole worl...

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This is no clash of civilizations. This is a collection of armed theocracies TRYING to create one for power and profit. Humanity can be better. Conflict begets & reinforces power s...

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judgment is not concern confrontation is not assistance negative criticism is not encouragement but love is love the difference between identity and ego where to hang on...

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explaining to a friend that I went to see him play guitar instead of performing at an open mic some distance away I realized the best compliment that I can give someone is “I’d rather he...

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I’ve never tried uppers because I know I’d spend a few months the happiest I’ve ever been I’d finish a few novels all at once I would be getting thinner and productive and reaching my potentia...

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The gig economy’s the last nail in the idea of being fellow citizens, everyone becomes simply a potential servant to a rich man. In the gig economy, we are all serfs again. In the gig economy...

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we express our love through our worry for each other in my family it’s better than money or food as expression I’m guessin’ but anxiety doesn’t add it multplies and drive...

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streets named after people long forgotten along with their deeds the only remaining memory being the city streets themselves maybe property is theft maybe memory’s a stra...

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this is not a pipe, this is not a picture of a pipe this is a sentence I’m forming that happens to contain the word “pipe” this is not a pipe, this is not a painting of a pipe this...

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every job leaves a scar on you somewhere inside or out a broken toe from a film set that still aches in the cold reflexive “I can help you with that” from old terrible phone wor...

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the dog and I go on these little adventures together sometimes he’ll bark at a phantom sometimes he’ll sniff at some leaves sometimes he’ll piss on every tire that he sees little usually com...

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The sale is for a limited time only which makes it fit in just fine with everything else in the damned world. Everything is an offer with a hard expiration date. Whether you can know whe...

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Baseball will break your heart, stomp on it, burn the remains, scatter the ashes at sea then ask you out again in April. Baseball will tear your flesh off tan your hide and rende...

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Just because a wound healed doesn’t mean you won’t have a pink glossy stretched-out scar that aches in wet-cold for the rest of your life. You can bounce back but that means yo...

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A brand is a scar burnt into a living thing to prove that someone or thing else owns it. Why would you ever want to be a brand? I get why you’d want your work to be known to be appre...

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The world’s never not once ever been changed for the better by an “is”. Our fates as women and men as individuals and as a species hang off the limbs of ten million “shoulds”. We d...

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What if you could convince Freddy to kill you with gold bars then pull them out of your nightmares to get rich quick? You could destablize the entire precious metals market upending sig...

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I think I’ll start calling myself an Indoorsman. A two or three hour hike is lovely but I’ll apply my scouting skills to making up a nice warm bed. I sometimes like to ...

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I choose to imagine what it would be like if we had to file our internet unfriendings with some official branch of the government. Get a notary co-signing in on that, get a big red ...

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