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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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Oct 13, 20227 min read
Big Red T
How exactly does one describe a beer? Or perhaps a better way to phrase this Q is how does one describe the meaning attached to a...
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Jul 28, 20225 min read
Bound By Measurement: The Cup System
Bound By Measurement: The Cup System 2/4/2022 One confounding element of being an American in Europe is being constantly emerged in a...
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Jul 28, 20224 min read
Sauna Talks
Sauna Talks After months and months of COVID precautions, something beautiful has happened in the gym which I attend: the sauna is back...
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Jul 28, 20224 min read
Relationship Studies
Relationship Studies 2/28/22 At the moment, I am taking a course called Sexualities and Society, and while I find it absolutely...
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Jul 28, 20224 min read
Dear Orange Place: Glasgow in Color
Dear Orange Place: Glasgow in Color 1/26/22 Do cities have colors? Perhaps. It’s likely that the color palettes we assign to our cities...
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Jul 28, 20224 min read
Solitaire as a Sacred Act
Solitaire as a Sacred Act 2/19/22 As a method of destressing, I often like to sit down and play solitaire. I don’t know the name of this...
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Jul 28, 202210 min read
September in Glasgow
September in Glasgow 12 October 2021 I – Missed Connections The tarmac was miserable on the 1st of September, phone alarms disrupting the...
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Jul 28, 20223 min read
UK's Hard Seltzer Culture
November 12th 2021 Seltzer Culture: The other day I was at a trivia night in the West End of Glasgow that was sponsored by a new...
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Jul 28, 202216 min read
The Amatonormative Matrix
Introduction Amatonormativity is the term that describes how social systems prioritize romantic love and assume that it is desirable to...
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Jul 28, 202215 min read
The Global City in A World System
The Global City in a world-system Question: “How can world-systems analysis be used to understand the power cities have in globalized...
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Jul 28, 202216 min read
Anti-Racist Street Art and the Right to the City
Written January 2022 for a class Anti-Racist Street Art and the Right to the City How can the Lefebvrian concepts of “Right to the City”...
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Jul 28, 202216 min read
Capabilities Approach
Capabilities Approach and Transportation Justice - For a Class January 2022 Introduction The Capabilities Approach is a system of...
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Jul 28, 20222 min read
A Plot Hole in David Mitchell's 1997 Book, Ghostwritten
Okay, so this is a hyper-specific post, all about a singular plot hole in the 1997 David Mitchell Novel Ghost Written, which I feel...
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Jul 28, 20225 min read
Comparing David Bowie and Damon Albarn
Written November 2020 I’ve spent a decent amount of time “covering the blank spots” in my musical knowledge the past couple of months by...
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Jul 28, 20225 min read
Dog Music For Dogs
Dog Music For Dogs I am a big fan of exploring Spotify and generally finding weird things that allow me to make mini-conspiracy...
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Jul 28, 20228 min read
Gamified Friendship
Frendr - Gamified Friendship Gamification is all the rage. There are gamified productivity apps (Habitica, Flora) gamified language...
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Jul 28, 20225 min read
Fruit Tier
Fruit Tier List Picture this: You want to eat a kiwi, the delicious green fruit, but don’t want to go through the process of peeling it....
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Jul 28, 20228 min read
David Bowie and Me
David Bowie and Me Written May 2020 The morning following the evening of my 23rd birthday I woke up in one of those cerebrally hungover...
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Jul 28, 20226 min read
The Angel of Buried Keys
The Angel of Buried Keys July 2020 So the late-mid-July sun is beginning the downward slope and my shirt’s off and I’m scrambling through...
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Jul 28, 20225 min read
Donut Dogma
Dunkin Donuts as New England Civil Religion Oct 2020 It’s Autumn in New England and the leaves are turning into something wonderful....
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