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Food
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Nov 25, 2025
Why delivering pizza as a teenager was the best job in the world.
Language
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Nov 19, 2025
How irony can help us walk back our conspiratorial thinking.
Sci-Fi
Nov 17, 2025
Our bodies, our brains, our planet, our women? What their fictional desires reveal about our own failings — and whether 'Pluribus' and 'Bugonia' get it right.
Nov 14, 2025
You are welcome, even encouraged, to spread it around.
Writing
Nov 10, 2025
When a project is about anything and everything, it's also about nothing — and who'd want to read that?
Nov 6, 2025
Four short, sharp takes — plus a special appearance by a guest poet.
Nov 3, 2025
But you can still use your stupid brain to try!
Oct 31, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of words later, what's to become of this newsletter?
Pop Culture
Oct 29, 2025
For me, live-action movies and TV will always be secondary.
