Culture
What’s going on, who we are, and what the big deal is.
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One of my favorite parts about music is the slow build. What I mean by this is the song that starts simple, soft, and slow. And it gets you listening to it’s quiet and before you know it you are raptly focused on the words, listening for something. You don’t know what. And then it…
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There’s not believing something because it seems so wrong. There’s not believing because the wrong keeps happening. There’s believing because of precedent. And then there’s not believing again because the precedent is just too much. Tuesday night, the scales were tipped into lala land. After eight Republican debates, we have now found a list of…
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So a guy lets loose 56 exotic animals, including lions, tigers, grizzlies, and wolves in Zanesville, Ohio, near Columbus. This no joke. This is a true story. He kept extremely dangerous animals. At home! In a cage! Bengal flippin’ tigers! So the guy lets them loose, cuts the cages to keep anyone from getting them…
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Who among us hasn’t made a mixtape for someone they loved? Or at least were in love with at one point. It should come to nobody’s surprise that I’ve made a bunch of such mixtapes in my time and given them to…well, several…people. But, and this may sound cheesy, there is something about the mixtape for…
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“This notion that ‘These media companies are just giving us what the public wants!’ No. They’re giving us what the media companies want; they’re giving us what the advertisers want. And they’re packaging it in such a way as to make it sound like it is our fault; it’s not.” –Jennifer Pozner Giving people “what…
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When faced with something they find confusing, most journalists give up. They don’t do the real legwork of engaging the story. They write the “process story” instead. You’ve read the kind in which the author doesn’t actually write the story about the intended subject’s work, but how confusing that work is. They trot out tired…