Nostalgia and the Beautiful Return to Pain
What is nostalgia? How can it help us? How can it hold us back? And…
One Cent Record Clubs and Predatory Discovery
What’s the value of music when your life is falling apart? How did that “ten…
Em Dashes and Witch Hunts With New Literary Inquisitors
It’s 2025, and I find myself caught in an ironic 21st-century witch hunt. Only this…
Love My Way: The Psychedelic Furs and the Marimba That Woke Me Up
What if one song could tell you it was okay to exist exactly as you…
When Free Speech Fought Back in 1985
Are we safe if a comedian does not have free speech? Were we safe when…
Pee Wee Herman: Lessons From a Manchild
By Rachael Price Nowadays, one does not usually understand the term “manchild” to be a…
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Nostalgia and the Beautiful Return to Pain
What is nostalgia? How can it help us? How can it hold us back? And what are it’s origins? A song, a smell in the air, a taste in your mouth, or even an image and suddenly a part of you has traveled through time and space. Sometimes we hold these close to us for…
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One Cent Record Clubs and Predatory Discovery
What’s the value of music when your life is falling apart? How did that “ten albums for a penny” deal really work? And could a kid’s mail-order music club from the 1980s have predicted today’s subscription trap? In the summer of 1983, I was a wreck. My grandfather pulled into a RadioShack parking lot and…
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Em Dashes and Witch Hunts With New Literary Inquisitors
It’s 2025, and I find myself caught in an ironic 21st-century witch hunt. Only this time, the torches and pitchforks have been replaced by AI detectors and self-appointed “sleuths” sniffing out supposed machine-written prose. After months of hearing horror stories from fellow authors and academics I found my audiobook in the crosshairs of being deemed…