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Have you ever had karma work in your favor? In such a weird and glorious way that you can’t shut up about it? Just me? OK, well, here’s a story for you. My frister (friend+sister) Megan and I had been eyeing the Eras Tour passively, but longingly. She’d been a Swiftie for years and at some point began a campaign to convert me. As an aside, Taylor Swift is a poet in her own right. Some have compared her lyrics to Shakespeare, and as a Shakespeare aficionado myself, I’ll say th

Bonus points if you can guess the song without googling the lyrics. I get it. My writing has been lagging lately. My posts have been bleak. The honest truth is that the doom & gloom essays are the ones I’m most hesitant to post. They’re the least fun to write. Trouble is, the state of the world is all-consuming. Every time I take my eyes off it, I'm ambushed. By this logic, if I stay locked in, I won't be surprised. I'll admit, I often fall prey to the overwhelm of the daily

Joseph Anton Koch, inferno, 1825-28 “The old world is dying and the new one is struggling to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” -Antonio Gramsci, written in his prison notebooks circa 1930 while imprisoned for opposing Mussolini’s fascist regime This writing will not be pretty or polite. It will not be polished. But it will hopefully have some substance and conclude with a plea. These days it’s all I can do to Type. One. Word. In. Front. Of. The. Other. I’m an artist, a v