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The Warehouse

The largest system of incarceration in human history

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We had it coming

We drove into the city the other night – only an hour and twenty minutes with the traffic! – to go see my close personal friends who live inside of my phone turned into flesh for a Comedy Bang Bang live performance. The show was a lot of fun of course but

There was nothing he could do but carry it

90% of being a poet is just knowing what the names of the trees and the birds and the fish are where you live then looking at them and writing it all down. Which is why I'm never going to make it. I'm not learning all

It smelled like death

You would think that by now we would have heard of all the different ways in which the police can enact suffering and violence against citizens right? There certainly can't be anything much worse they could do to us just beyond the scope of our imaginations right? Well

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I can't do it

Today the great Jim Ruland joins us to write about seeing Dead & Company at The Sphere and Devo at Punk Rock Bowling on back to back nights in Las Vegas. You'll need be a paid subscriber to read that one down below or you can jump to

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Suburban Robots That Monitor Reality

The Dead & Devo in Las Vegas

I have never seen that level of deliberate cruelty

At least they didn't kill him

You don’t have to do any of that

You don’t need to get married like a rich person

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Every day this has to happen

This has to happen for some reason

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There is no ladder

As bad as you think things are, they can, and will, always somehow be worse

How to live an intentional and ethical life

RIP Steve Albini

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Louder than bombs

Where we want to go is back to beauty

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Pinkerton 2

Thanking them for not wanting you dead

The insane escalation of police force against peaceful campus protestors continued last night around the country. That includes at UCLA where police seem to still be attempting to clear the encampment as we speak. The school newspaper The Daily Bruin has been providing continual updates which you can read here.

A period of collective mass hysteria

It’s madness. People have gone mad

Stop Cop City Dallas

It's going to be a long fight

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Everywhere's the wrong place at the wrong time

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The Sublime Terror of Alex Garland

Today an essay on the divisive directing career of the often brilliant Alex Garland and his punishing and kinetic new film Civil War, which I thought was good but not great (and recommend you see in a large and loud theater) despite a lot of the backlash to its supposed

See the moon?

The famous eclipse from the newspaper and TV and phone was closing in hour by hour and all day I had been having this intrusive thought that I was going to stare directly at it raw even though I didn’t want to do that for obvious reasons. Like the

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Gas Leak

It started to rain weird

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I Figured You Out

I don't have you with me but I keep a good attitude

Maybe they thought the world would shrug and move on

Seeing atrocities committed every day for months now is seriously fucking me up. Lucky me safe at home. Worse is seeing so many people, including our government and media, either denying that it's happening or saying that it's good that it is. Or necessary. Some might

Too heavy a thing to carry around every day

It's just a fad

Under the Skin

Every time I search for something on Google now they come back like I don't know man here are two or three things. I guess I could go look out back if you really want. It's like me working at the video store in the 90s.

A beautiful woman with malicious intent

Today we have an excerpt from the forthcoming book Gore-Geous: Personal Essays on Beauty and Horror by Alexandra West which you can pre-order here. It's a fascinating and revealing blend of personal essay writing and film criticism that explores the concepts of beauty standards and gender norms in