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  • Alternative Hair

    Alternative Hair

    June 8, 2026

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    Hardcore History

    Shoutout to whatever Liverpool punk collaged this flyer together. I can’t decide which is funnier, “Softly Feminine Nausea: Real Adult Entertainment” or “Mix ‘n’ Match Disaster — What Balls!”

    ⇢: Alternative Hair
  • Memory Rehearsal

    Memory Rehearsal

    June 7, 2026

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    Writing

    My report on last month’s launch party for Eleni Sikelianios’ new book Memory Rehearsal is now live at Zona Motel, where I’m talking Proust, dogs and ukuleles.

    ⇢: Memory Rehearsal
  • Hypothetical Self-Epitaph

    Hypothetical Self-Epitaph

    June 6, 2026

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    Nothings

    “Everyone should have an epitaph ready,” Everette Maddox told an interview in one of his rare radio appearances. “Just in case.”

    ⇢: Hypothetical Self-Epitaph
  • The Cowboy Rides Again

    The Cowboy Rides Again

    June 1, 2026

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    Writing

    My very short story “Cowboy” is available in the first issue of Shifties, a new literary magazine by and for the service well.

    ⇢: The Cowboy Rides Again
  • Summer of the Just

    June 1, 2026

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    Nothings

    There is a June when Corn is cutAnd Roses in the Seed—A Summer briefer than the firstBut tenderer indeed

    ⇢: Summer of the Just
  • Over the Town

    Over the Town

    May 23, 2026

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    Nothings

    I’ve just watched Daniel Schmid’s La Paloma which has almost immediately joined the ranks of my personal canon.

    ⇢: Over the Town
  • Spaztic Intensity

    Spaztic Intensity

    May 22, 2026

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    Hardcore History

    COLLEGE PORK.

    ⇢: Spaztic Intensity
  • Hollow Core

    May 19, 2026

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    Nothings

    Demna’s most recent time-wasting scheme involved shutting down Times Square last Saturday night so its 250,000 idle tourists could be replaced by 63 idle models draped in meaningless, lazily conceived designs.

    ⇢: Hollow Core
  • Divination and Volition

    Divination and Volition

    May 18, 2026

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    Nothings

    I got back to San Diego late last night, parked the rental car at Enterprise and threw the keys in the dropbox. The drive wasn’t bad, though I probably didn’t need to stop at both Pea Soup Andersen’s and Bravo Farms. Maybe it’s simply because I grew up in one, but I can never turn…

    ⇢: Divination and Volition
  • Calves

    Calves

    May 10, 2026

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    Nothings

    There’s more to a mother than the kitchen at night with everything put back and the oven light on. There is, for example, her big leather purse. The sadness of her birthdays. Her cursive singing voice. The way her dry white calves eventually became your own. Simone Harris And happy 77th birthday to Miuccia Prada,…

    ⇢: Calves

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“What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?”

Nikolai Gogol