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Friday Links: Summer Is Here Edition
“Hey. Look at me, man. How about we try living?” - Maya Williams, “Paul’s Response to His Jailer’s Attempted Suicide”
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Notes On Performing as "Tour" Kicks Off
“He got up before dawn…looked down at the water. He would have welcomed an instant of wisdom. However, none arrived. The water kept its own counsel.” …
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Friday Links: Basketball, Queer Love, and Antifascism Edition
"Shooting around in the dark under the garage light...I always felt an intoxicating selfishness in knowing that I might wake the neighbors, but oh well…
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'Sinners' Is Twice As Good
“You come to me for advice, but you can’t cope with anything you don’t recognize…have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like…
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The Lazy & Entitled Reading Series Is Here
"I still clutch the sacred / scribbled long after the pages // wash out, little holes marring / the words. I look for the sun" - Bob Sykora, "Self…
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Friday Links: Sci-Fi That Isn't Cis White Men
“‘Stay strong,’ people from your past say...But I don’t want to be strong, I want to be a time-traveler.” – Mac Crane, ‘I Keep My Exoskeletons To…
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Three Fun Ways To Mess Up Chord Progressions
“A basketball game was, and always will be, part playing the game before us and part making sure we have someone to bear witness.” – Mac Crane, ‘A Sharp…
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May 2025

Friday Links: Do You Know Anything About San Francisco? Edition
the epigraph is from Jay Caspian Kang
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Storytelling In Instrumental Music
“Prometheus was trying / to invent the guitar solo. / Fire was his first draft.” - Amorak Huey, “Seven Stories About Fire”
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Friday Links: Watch Out For Foxes and Robots Edition
the book this week is by Yangsze Choo
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Re-centering
“A beach house isn’t just real estate. It’s a state of mind.” - Douglas Adams, ‘Mostly Harmless’
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Friday Links: I'd Swim In A Sea Of Stories Even If It Was Poisoned Edition
the epigraph is from Salman Rushdie
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