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The 8 Best Games for a Mush-Brained Parent Holding a Baby
As a new dad, I’ve found my priorities suddenly shifted away from gaming. I work long hours at an insane job. I take care of my now-17-week-old daughter. I try to be a good partner to my wife. If I’m lucky, I steal some time to eat, shower, and brush my teeth. No one can…
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Bolaño
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Temper at the Prospect
How our lively natures were rapt away by post-modern science fiction “What temper at the prospect did not wakeTo happiness unthought of? The inertWere roused, and lively natures rapt away!” William Wordsworth February 2021 — Why doesn’t ugly start a revolution? The intellectual farmacie of traditional media, rife with fit, reasonably attractive folks earn profiles…
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Art Reality Freshly Preserved, Produced and Tinned in Milan, May 1961
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Lawler’s Warhol’s Monroe’s MoMA’s America’s Land
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Vicious Mercy (Vermeer in Death Valley, 2020)
Leave Vermeer alone. When I write The girl is dying I do not mean to enter the girl nor deconstruct her state of abstract goingness. It’s a figure beyond an open window in a time of plague. Disemboweled skywriting or the family name forgotten in water. Which is to say: Vicious mercy becomes the uncountable…