If you would like to donate to a cause I have a lot of feelings about, here is one. . Grief is weird. . It’s like getting a repeat 404 error in your brain. “Error: person not found. Guess I’ll do the dishes.” Finding out you were gone was such a crazy experience that I … Continue reading Nonfiction: Grief Is Weird
I was hiding in the freezer, because that’s where you go to have a breakdown when you work retail. It had been a particularly garbage day at bar none the worst job I have ever had. Here’s how early 2020 was going for me: I graduated with a post-baccalaureate certificate in March of 2020, just … Continue reading That Time John Mulaney Went To Rehab
Two in one day again, for two reasons. One, the last entry was short, and two, I'm getting a little tired of this being the only thing on my blog. I had a lot of fun with this, but I'm at the very beginning of the site, and this is now like 90% of my … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music: The Final Countdown
The songs in this segment are controversial for different reasons. Well, two are for the same reason. From the beginning of the genre as a recognizable whole, there have been arguments about what counts as “real” country. Those arguments have been wildly racist pretty much the entire time. We also very briefly touched on people … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music: The Songs A Lot Of People Yelled About
At the end of part six I said part seven was going to be ghost stories...and then skipped ahead to the wistful love songs. Oops. Well, the post was a day late anyway, and the love songs post was so short I was already considering a double feature, so we're going to loop back to … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 8/10: That Good Spooky Shit, Which I accidentally skipped last time…
This one is a day late, sorry lads. We had a couple of short, quick power outages on Sunday night that managed to fry my motherboard...where the fully edited version of this piece is saved. Oops. That's what I get for using a cheap surge protector. Thankfully she's still under warranty, so I was able … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music, Part 7/10: The Wistful Love Songs Are Back
Yep, crime tales get their own segment. The murder ballad is a classic format, and the broader category of the crime song is as well. These are essentially musical crime fiction, with the unquestionably guilty as their protagonists. Johnny Cash had a lot to say about sympathy for the murderer, but he doesn’t appear in … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 6: What are we doing? Oh, crime.
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