Dread Poets Sobriety

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  • Short Stop

    Presumably you are familiar with the expression, “less is more”? Children are extremely literal and I was no exception. Upon hearing the phrase for the first time I found myself suitably perplexed by its seemingly paradoxical makeup. Like the newly blind applying mascara. Would a Picasso joke have gone over better? It wasn’t as funny… Continue reading

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  • Outbreak 2

    Good evening! [Please say that in your head as a 20’s European cinema vampyre. Thank you.] I stumbled across an obvious epiphany just now which is- I needn’t write a big ol’ fancy article every time I publish here. No English teacher is going to appear and admonish me over the length of my composition.… Continue reading

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  • “Sissyphus”

    “We’re all on the same team”. Platitudinous? Yes. Cliche? Assuredly… but the phrase was used recently in marketing for the newest Planet Earth installment and the inference blew me away. How in the hell can we NOT figure this out? And I don’t mean left-wing and conservatives, racial divisions, capital disparity or religious schisms. I… Continue reading

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