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Pop Star Valor and Other Grifts
On Charli XCX's attempt at reimagining the history of the pop star in her own image
Nov 25
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How can I sing a love song?
Come with me to see Lonnie Holley live in LA last night
Nov 21
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We were so carefree
Some archives demonstrating the scams and hypocrisies that corrupt performance culture in the service of the death cults
Nov 18
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Ike and Tina Turner On the Road
Meditation on a Southern gothic American horror story made half-beautiful in retrospect
Nov 14
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Enshrined
Notes on the makings of shrines and one more for D'Angelo
Nov 4
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October 2025
Ritual in Translinear Shadow
D'Angelo's version of the National Anthem vs. His Revolutionary Songbook
Oct 31
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Another Life
Abridged elegy for D'Angelo and my first fur coat
Oct 15
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A Partially Actualized World
On the new documentary about Ye, composed like visual requiem for a man so doomed he's free
Oct 11
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Baraka on Film
And a quiet tribe of poets looking toward cinema
Oct 8
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The Stranger, The Dreamer, The Golden Dream
Reminiscing in Tempo on reading Camus at sixteen, my first infatuation, and my Grandma's hands
Oct 5
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Fire Watching
A vigil in every direction at once—For Assata, for cinematic absolution, for my Grandmother, for my thawing heart
Oct 1
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September 2025
Dance with me
Lighthearted, heavy-hearted musings on Bjork's first band, Laura Nyro, J Dilla, Nina Simone, and the Lotus Sutra.
Sep 16
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