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Category: life

  • a pretty good answer

    If you read this blog semi-frequently, it’s probably no surprise that I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about death. In regards to the question, “What happens when we die?” this is one of the best answers I’ve come across (and it comes from a late night talk show…)

  • pushing the button

    I worked a party at an expensive house in Hollywood this week. The front door was fifteen feet tall and latched automatically. Instead of twisting a knob, you had to push a button on the wall to unlatch the door and exit the house. One of my co-workers came to…

  • two midnights

    Back-to-back watching is always one of my favorite things. It’s my belief that the texts you engage with can speak to one another and engage in conversation within you. In my own recent viewing, I’ve found that the limited horror series Midnight Mass pairs exceptionally well with Duncan Trussell’s The…

  • home in October

    I love the month of October. Each year, it feels like a return to someplace familiar. As Kerouac says in On The Road, “Everybody goes home in October.” Thomas Wolfe agrees: All things on earth point home in old October: sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field…

  • receiving aliveness

    I’ve been having a blast with The Midnight Gospel, Duncan Trussell’s animated podcast that examines life, death, and questions of existence (alongside some trippy animation.) Each episode has its own nuggets of wisdom, but one of my favorites comes from the fourth episode, which features Dharma teacher, Trudy Goodman. “We…

  • riffin’

    I finally got around to finishing The Rolling Thunder Revue on Netflix this week. It was a long overdue watch, but I’m convinced it’s the kind of film you have to be tuned into a very particular frequency to really engage with. One of my favorite moments is a brief…

  • a strong nation

    Today is Jimmy Carter’s 97th birthday. One of my favorite cinematic moments of the last few years is the portrayal of his Crisis of Confidence speech in Mike Mills’ 20th Century Women. Carter once said, A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and…

  • fact, fiction, and truth

    In a recent interview with Marc Maron, director Barry Jenkins offered a few insights into the collision between fact, fiction, and truth: There was an article that come out about this textbook [which was] telling kids, high school students, that the American slave trade was a system of conscripted labor……

  • quick to hire, slow to fire

    I’ve been spread too thin lately. I’ve been stressed. I’ve been depressed. I’m been fighting to keep my head above water. As a result, some of the work in one of my numerous jobs suffered a bit. When my boss confronted me, I asked if she was going to fire…

  • perfect isn’t perfect

    I’ve been trying to get the blood to flow back into my life lately. The last year has left me feeling a bit numb, due simply to the fact the chances for magic and synchronicity are severely diminished when you can’t leave your apartment. I’ve been trying to open myself…