culture
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TotTM – Chapter 3: Follow the Beauty
September 10, 2026 Today, I’m back at Chattahoochee Food Works, sitting at a more secluded yellow table outside the building. It’s 12:24 p.m., which means I have about an hour before I need to return to my place and get ready for work. I usually leave my room between 2:10 and 2:20 p.m. My commute…
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Reclaiming the Old Magic
Nostalgia is a fucking scam. I’ve been going through a phase of watching old films like Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, both of which have helped me articulate a feeling I’ve had lately: why has my adult life lost some of the magic of childhood? Nostalgia is booming among Millennials like…
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Is America too Cultured?
What does it mean to be cultured? This question has been on my mind for the last couple of days for two different reasons. The first is that I have been called “cultured” by numerous people in response to my wide and seemingly random array of knowledge. The second is that a coworker of mine,…
