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ROAD WORK AHEAD
Road Work Ahead
"Yeah, I sure hope it does"
Welcome to Road Work Ahead, the blog that is always under construction. Stories posted on a weekly basis including cultural theories, personal anecdotes, and general nonsense.
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2 days ago8 min read
2024 Content Round Up
You know what it is at this point. Each year I do a methodological job of archiving all my favorite forms of media. This is what I...
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Nov 7, 20244 min read
Good and Plenty: A Relic of Confection
No modern candy is more controversial than Good & Plenty. While not a popular candy, it is far from being a niche designer candy – Good &...
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Oct 14, 20244 min read
Area Codes (and Numerical Identities)
A strange phenomenon of the modern day (perhaps the past 300-200 years, but increasing rapidly - I would say) is how we have been using...
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Aug 28, 20243 min read
Falling Shapes
“You see, man, Tetris, the game you know, it’s a lot like life. Yea, I play tetris all the time almost every day, in between things at...
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Jul 24, 20243 min read
Breakfast Soup
I feel like one of the largest tragedies of the West culinary folklore is the myth that soup is not a breakfast food. The hegemonic...
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Jul 9, 20245 min read
Why is Goldschläger
Over the weekend something came over me, a hunger for opulence. My eyes flickered upon the long-necked bottle, a glowing mystery. Gold -...
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Jun 17, 20249 min read
Mouse Tales
Mice hold a really strange place in our culture. They are simultaneously considered cute but also a major pest. These critters likely...
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May 22, 20245 min read
A Silent Gym
Gyms are inherently weird spaces. Postmodern to the limit; spaces where bodies perform ritualized movement against resistance as ways to...
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May 10, 20244 min read
CSS Concert Review
On a May Monday night at the Foundry in Philadelphia, we found ourselves dancing to the groovy, weird vibes of CSS. While I bought the...
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May 1, 20245 min read
Neurodivergence in David Foster Wallace's Writing
So I’m a big David Foster Wallace fan, which is something I haven't written much about directly. In fact, I have read all of his books,...
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Apr 9, 20243 min read
The Language of Smells
Isn’t it a little odd that smells are so rarely acknowledged linguistically? I feel like the whole sense is relegated to simile;...
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Mar 19, 20242 min read
In Defense of Fun (From Trivial Conspiracies)
Interview #5 – Money. Love. Power. Prestige. These are all viewed as rather legitimate pursuits in the professional realm, wouldn’t you...
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Mar 17, 20244 min read
The First Line of Each Short Story in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Collected Stories
From Collected Stories (1984) by Garbriel Garcia Marquez, separated into three sections. Eyes of a Blue Dog - Translated by Gregory...
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Feb 28, 20246 min read
The Leap Day Evangelical Church
For most people, February 29th is just another day in their life, indistinguishable from any other day besides a cursory, “huh it’s leap...
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Feb 19, 20243 min read
Letter Lines
I have been thinking about letter shapes recently and realized that there are really only 3 ways in which English alphabet are written:...
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Jan 15, 202413 min read
Recognition
Recognition Is he who I think he is, or is this recognition simply an illusion? Does he live in Philadelphia? I think he did at some...
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Jan 9, 202418 min read
5 Years of Reading
I try to do a lot of reading, and basically, since 2019 I have been doing a fastidious job of keeping track of all the books I read on an...
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Nov 19, 20236 min read
All My Saunas
Saunas have become ritualized spaces for the past couple of years of my life. I’ve experienced good saunas and bad saunas, but I feel...
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Oct 22, 20234 min read
Ghosting Tiers
It's spo0oo0o0ky season, so in honor of this time of year, I'm going to write about a system I've had in place for a while but never...
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Oct 7, 20235 min read
Month Stuff
One of my most nerdy thought spirals is thinking about calendars and time. I have already touched on my calendar fascination in some of...
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