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Here’s what I wrote this week (thanks to subscriber support!)
Politics
Charlie Kirk is being used to repress free speech. (Public Notice)
The dangers of “debating” the right. (EIH)
How the cops silence Thelonious Monk. (EIH)
Even Ted Cruz hates that Trump fired Jimmy Kimmel. (EIH)
Cultural Criticism
A great art show about Black motherhood and diaspora at Hyde Park Art Center. (Prism)
The pros and cons of making movies horny again. (EIH)
28 Years Later is a zombie movie about grief. (Splice Today)
Mei Ehara’s retro-lounge is awesome. (Chicago Reader)
10 Movies Classified as Rotten That Are In Fact Good. (EIH)
The pretty good music of fake musiciaians. (EIH)
Poetry
Little first amendment poem. (Five Fleas)
Free speech is a poem.
Poems end.
Another one. (dadakuku)
Charlie Kirk Destroys Poetry!
What can I say?
Haiku using endwords from a Richard Wright haiku. (Five Fleas)
You are nobody.
Neither the moon nor the sun
Sees you walk away.