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Death Grips “Hot Head” Track Review

“Hot Head” is not only an assertion of power but also an investigation into how power works.

by Samuel Bollen on February 10, 2016October 2, 2016

Country Shit with Granddad

When I was seventeen I went duck hunting on a lake in the backwoods of Tennessee with my grandfather and uncle.

by Samuel Bollen on December 6, 2015December 6, 2015

The Myth of the Reclusive Writer

In Rich Homie Quan’s 2013 classic, “Type of Way,” he joins a three thousand-year tradition of literary recluses in a single rhyming couplet: “I got a hide away, and I go there sometimes, to give my mind a break/ I find a way, to still get through the struggle, what I’m tryna say.”

by Samuel Bollen on November 14, 2015November 16, 2015

Title Fight with Narcissism

Marc Maron seemed to me an incongruous choice for a Princeton lecturer. Having watched some of his standup, I knew him to be both raucously funny and intensely personal, traits which aren’t particularly in demand on this campus.

by Samuel Bollen on October 17, 2015October 18, 2015

The Ghost Sex

Reliving what could have been.

by Samuel Bollen on October 12, 2015October 12, 2015

msg 2 my ghost

ghost,

im chasing u round the attic. u lead me round my attic, over chintzy 50s carpet, circumnavigating staircase well b/c u r scared 4 me—wild ghost chase? but there r many floors & rooms here & our friends r at a party in the next room…

by Samuel Bollen on August 11, 2015August 11, 2015

Why Imma Do Me

Homer, homogeny, and the timeless value of individualism

by Samuel Bollen on April 26, 2015April 26, 2015

The National Enquirer’s Daddy Issues

About a month ago I watched a Netflix documentary on the founder of the National Enquirer: Enquiring Minds: The Untold Story of the Man behind the National Enquirer. As it started, I saw that the production was nothing special—mostly voiceovers … Read More

by Samuel Bollen on March 15, 2015

Corpse Diem

We will all be worm food
So fuck each other wildly

by Samuel Bollen on March 7, 2015

Manscaping

Before my senior year of high school, I had relegated the concept of manscaping to metrosexual metropolises like New York and Los Angeles.

by Samuel Bollen on March 7, 2015

Weird Vermeer

When I’m trying to be cool talking about my intersession I tell people I was visiting friends who are doing a gap year in the Capitol (which is technically true), but mostly I was hanging out with my aunt and going to art galleries.

by Samuel Bollen on February 14, 2015


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