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Mythos & Modernity
The beginning of a long winded and contrived explanation about why we deserve to be where we are today.
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On Grieving
UPDATE Aug 29, 2024: Miller is doing just fine after a lot of at-home TLC. These words encapsulate a feeling in time that I needed to capture. … I’m writing this sitting next to Miller, my 4-year-old rescue pup, who is extremely sick. How we reached this point is a question I’ll never have an…
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On Nerd-dom, Hype, and Disappointment
What does it mean to be a nerd? In the Archetype of Nerd, there are many subclasses. There are Tech Nerds, who thrive on littering their home with the latest gadget, touting to whoever wants to hear it why this hunk of plastic and metal is better than the last one, and specifically why its…
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4: “Oppenheimer”
Spoiler Alert. You’ve been warned. And now things are already being transformedfrom words to deeds—the earth is shuddering,the roaring thunder from beneath the seais rumbling past me, while bolts of lightningflash their twisting fire, whirlwinds toss the dust,and blasting winds rush out to launch a warof howling storms, one against another.The sky is now confounded…
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3: Hope
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. – Joseph Campbell What we talk about when we talk about hope changes from person to person, thought to thought, reality to reality. The unique part of the American mythos is that we are often oblivious to what Pandora supposedly left trapped inside her jar. We, sometimes…
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2: Pandora
small disclaimer: I am writing this specifically from the gaze of a white cis-male observer of both society and media. I use language that presumptive of this gender identity because it is my story, to tell you — whoever you are. If there were mortal women in Greek mythology before Pandora, their stories were not…
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1: Prometheus
Zeus and humanity had a weird relationship that I still don’t really get, but we talked about it a lot in late-20th / early-21st century American Public Schooling, so forgive me if I’m light on details but heavy on sarcasm. Mythology belongs to the teller, so take a seat. As it goes, a Titan by…
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#9. Nausea – Jeff Rosenstock
There was a point in my when I start getting paid real, honest money but also didn’t have any real, honest commitments in life. Now that those commitments exist, I look back on those times with equal part shock and awe. I don’t think I ever earned the title of Barfly, but I sure played…
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#10 – Where Did You Sleep Last Night? – Nirvana
I’m not saying anything that hasn’t been said before about this performance, but I am going to repeat things that deserve to be said.
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SRM.top_10(SONGS_OF_ALL_TIME)
This wouldn’t be a blog if I didn’t start with some ostentatious ranking of the best songs of all time. All of these are canonical and if you disagree you are a heretic to your generation.
