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Smart phones? Plasma TV? PS4? Ha! The very act of owning even a PS1 was a luxury not many could afford, much less a computer. Our main toys were our kites, which we made and flew with pride.
The journalist walks a tight line between asking appropriate questions and being an asshole.
Having spent the past three months in the region of Lorraine in France, and having resided in the United Kingdom since 2012, I had forgotten (or perhaps shut out) how blunt American media and politics have become
It was in those woods that everything changed.
He could be strict and got particularly grouchy at any deviations from his routine. Sometimes that grouchiness would be aimed at a little kid like me when I would do something like interrupt him during the news or “Wheel of Fortune.”
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Entertainment was a disaster. Television, music bios, screenwriting, dance—they were all a mad jumble along the wall perpendicular to art (which had been systematically destroyed long ago—there was no hope).
I called her when they threw me out of the house in disgrace and she smelt me like blood in the water. It was a new adventure. A new chance. New life. And now I’m here, in this place, in this country, and the lights down below change: a bloody red, a sweet green, a dirty orange.
And the shadows on either sides of the huge door bow to their Queen as she enters. Her eyes however, seek only The Mirror.
“You’ve grown quite a bit,” he says as he takes my bag.
“Yep. I guess.” What else should I say? So have you? You look good? How are you doing?
Her skin is the color of a body of water beneath a cloudless summer sky mere moments before sunrise, but they call her Blue.
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That image was to give John a long and colorful afterlife, one that traversed the boundaries of time, space, and media. More importantly, his image was destined to be the ancestor to the most pervasive and perplexing of modern phenomena…that of the cultural meme.
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