Musings & Bruisings

Short fiction and humanist truth about technology, mental health, and the socio-political state of civilization.

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Be Grateful, All You Quitters. Jared Kushner’s Here To Inspire You.

Blog, Income Inequality

I try to avoid ‘news articles’ about social media posts. But the attention-hoarding machine that is the internet would grind to a halt if we didn’t see at least one daily instance of ‘marginally well-known person did/said/nip slipped something stupid.’ My recent quota was filled by a HuffPost piece on Jared Kushner. The SparkNotes would…
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The Gods Smiled

Blog, Connection, Digital Media

We called it The Dome. To the theater employees sporting clip-on bow ties and art deco vests that harkened back to the Golden Age of movies, the Century Theaters dome was a Lewis Carrol playground. A place where teenage workers could become managers and were paid to stay up late on school nights, collapsing into…
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