TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests. | |
— David Foster Wallace | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | So Will Persistence |
I Won’t Shed A Tear | |
2020 | Minute Fractions Of Happiness |
There’s Angels Everywhere | |
2019 | Far Too Often |
2018 | A Divided / United Nation |
2017 | What We Want |
2016 | To The Extent |
2015 | Ambition |
2014 | More Branches To Climb |
Just In Time — Happy Thanksgiving (2014) | |
2013 | For And Against |
2012 | De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum |
2011 | Similar And Different |
2010 | Reminiscing |
Differences | |
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Similar And Different
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