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January 22nd: On the iPhone’s Reminders app In seventeen years of schooling, I never once earned below an A. Make no mistake: this is anything but a brag. Now, as a teacher, I can write with confidence that a high grade is more a testament of one’s ability to play the game than of mastery.Continue reading “January 22nd – 28th”

January 15th: On Pillows Pillows are superfluous. But at this moment it is late, and I am tired, and the smaller cushions atop the larger cushion at my side have attained a homey sort of divinity. Charles Simic once wrote that the prose poem collided language with a large and immovable object. I think heContinue reading “January 15th – 21st”

January 8th: On Manchester Orchestra and The Front Bottoms’ “Allentown” On November 11th, 2016, I drove three and a half hours to see The Front Bottoms and Modern Baseball open for Brand New in Allentown, PA. Three days before, the world as I’d known it had ended. Route 476 was packed, but quiet. The fieldsContinue reading “January 8th – 14th”

January 1st: On Twitch User The Happy Hob Last night (December 31st, 2020: the end of an endless year), I watched a 29-year-old streamer from the UK known on Twitch as The Happy Hob attempt to save his head from being shaved. Eyebrows, scalp. All of it. At the beginning of 2020, he made aContinue reading “Week 1: January 1st – 7th”