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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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…
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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 and interviews while a historical slideshow played onscreen, like a decent History Channel movie for…
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Manscaping
Before my senior year of high school, I had relegated the concept of manscaping to metrosexual metropolises like New York and Los Angeles.
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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.