Men dressed in vibrant feathery uniforms, strapped with much-too-old AR-15s. A middle school danced party with hundreds of onlookers. Grandmothers speedwalking or speedwheelcheering with flags billowing behind their focused path. A mustachio’d hypeman conducting and curating college football style chants and cheers. What sounds like the jacket-cover blurb for a David Foster ...
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Too many episodes of Twilight Zone rattled the brains of one College Student. His thoughts on authority black-and-white as the show that scrambled his poor psyche, leaders of the day, President-Elect Donald Trump in his home or Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his current place of residence, he heard called caricatures of an Orwell or Welles narration (he could never remember ...
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Dearest Fido, I miss you overgrown puppy you. Every season has spread us further apart these last few years, though, this fall takes the c-o-o-k-i-e (Mom knows you can spell, but she insists I don’t say it). Diwali fireworks season the sky, takes me back to all of the holidays I’ve had to hold you while our hick neighbors conflagrate the neighborhood with ...
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Bureaucratic Tomb Desecration “What can be more divine than the traumatic encounter with the bureaucracy at its craziest?” - Slavoj Zizek (The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology) Secular heathens, such as the College Student, revel in the masochistic pleasures of divine rituals when paper-pushed into the bureaucratic web. The ...
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Confessions of a Collegiate Caffeine-Eater [in India] “But I who have taken happiness both in a solid and liquid shape, both boiled and unboiled, both East India and Turkey- … I must surely know what happiness is, if anybody does… This done, I shall quit the subject of happiness altogether, and pass to a very different one- the pains of opium.” - Thomas de Quincey, ...
