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It’s hard for me to believe now, and it feels almost ridiculous to say, but there was a time when I firmly believed in alternative rock. At least in the early years of the 1990s, I believed it held some key to life that I, at that point in my development—as a painfully shy, rural American, preteen white boy, living in a trailer in the Pacific Northwest—did not have. I believed that by loving it, I would create points of connection with other alternative music fans or learn ways to connect through the lyrics—lyrics written by songwriters who often seemed to feel a similar disconnection and shyness but had somehow learned to overcome it, at least enough to sing songs in front of other people.

Christmas will be celebrated by 2.4 billion people, globally, in the coming days. ‘Tis the season when pine trees are adorned with presents and ornaments, while downtown corridors in cities near and wide are illuminated with the lights and sights of Christmas. Everywhere. Except the birthplace of Christianity, in the heart of the Holy Land where the native sites of ethnic cleansing speak volumes about the hypocrisy of western nativity scenes.

PLAYA VISTA — One day after being named the team’s fifth starter by LA Clippers coach Tyronn Lue, forward Terance Mann talked with gathered media ahead of practice Saturday. “Just ready to get to it,” Mann said when asked what his reaction was to the news that he would be starting the team’s season opener on Wednesday against the Portland Trail Blazers. Mann started 36 games last season for the Clippers and has started 92 in total for the franchise when counting regular season, postseason, and play-in.

David Sedaris tells a story about signing up for an Adult-Ed writing class called How to Write Funny after he first moved to New York. The teacher was a crusty older-middle-aged woman who on the first day of class asked her students, “What’s the first rule of writing funny?” Sedaris answers with the squnched-up expression of someone lacking confidence: “Don’t make fun of anyone who has less power than you?”

(Credit: Wikipedia) I have a confession to make. I copy and pasted almost this entire post from another post I wrote just over a year ago when people were shouting from their rooftops that the rapture was about to happen because Russia invaded Ukraine. I’m not (just) being lazy. It’s just that cries of an imminent rapture are painfully predictable and excruciatingly routine. They’re like a theological game of Mad Libs.

There’s this thing now called No Mow May. It’s where you don’t mow your lawn all month and let the grass and the weeds run wild. Some people feel strongly about its benefits. Others have never heard of it, or they have and they don’t care. Wondering if “No Mow May” is for you? I broke down the best arguments for and against.  PRO: Letting your grass and weeds grow and bloom provides food and shelter for pollinators like bees and butterflies early in the season.

This is a cute little blog for paid subscribers!! You can read it too: all you have to do is upgrade from the free membership 🐣 My name is Kyle. Why is it Kyle? I honestly have no idea. My siblings have names with a story: one’s named after my father, one’s named after an Irish saint, one’s named after a great grandmother, all of them are niche and not very “common.

I liked Barbie just fine. I thought it was consistently entertaining and found clever ways to be the kind of franchise-starting blockbuster it was always conceived to be. The politics were a little incoherent, but that was baked into the cake from the beginning - Barbie has been targetted as a symbol of patriarchy by feminists since at least the 1970s, and there was no way the movie could avoid commenting on that.