Christian Molenaar

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  • My Three Wives

    August 17, 2025

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    Nothings

    Though marriage by some folks Be reckon’d a curseThree wives I did marry For better or worse–The first for her person, The next for her purse,The third for a warming-pan, Doctress, and nurse. Read more

  • Hotter

    July 12, 2025

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    Nothings

    It was getting hotter. Read more

  • The Witches Tower 3/5/25

    May 6, 2025

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    Show

    Ryan asked me to play this show and the very next day had to back out upon realizing he’d double-booked himself to sit in with Swing Kids in LA the same night. Obviously I wasn’t going to begrudge him taking the bigger gig, but it did leave the question: how the hell do you play… Read more

  • Germans

    February 20, 2025

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    Nothings

    In the dream he watched some ersatz lothario press up against his wife after hearing her say you’d never be able to give her a million dollars and the man offered her a new life which excited her and they kissed and it reminded him of a dream her father had told her where his… Read more

  • 2024

    December 31, 2024

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    Year in Review

    Pandemonium of New Year’s Eve: chaos of snow and mud churned up by a thousand carriages glittering with toys and bonbons, swarming with cupidity and despair; official frenzy of a big city designed to trouble the mind of the most impervious solitary. Read more

  • Mambo No. 5

    October 26, 2024

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    Nothings

    The match could not have been more perfect: our two closest friends in the world — my best friend of fifteen years, your former college roommate, both simultaneously single at last. After half a decade of half-secret crushes, missed connections and ill-timed rendezvous, the timing was finally right. And a month later it was over. Read more

  • Comedy of Remarriage

    August 11, 2024

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    Nothings

    When Hannah and I got married nearly five years ago, we agreed to read vows of our own writing at the ceremony. When the time came for me to read my vows, I was so overcome with emotion I found the words on the paper could do nothing to capture the sensation of the moment,… Read more

Thought:

“Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of reflection.”

Jean-Luc Godard