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May 22, 2025It’s hard to say exactly what “country” means these days, but even if you can’t define it, you know it when you hear it. “Last Night”...
May 20, 2025Hunched over a paper plate piled with oysters and snow crab legs, I realized I hadn’t worn a shirt now in two days. The sun was setting on day two of the first-ever Sand in My...
March 14, 2025I knew just how the motel would be: “groovy” in that Austin way, retro but millennial in schemes of pink and orange, perhaps a neon sign that spelled in cursive,...
February 26, 2025Call me old-fashioned, but I believe the word “lore” should be reserved for the truly mythological—blood oaths, miracles, golden fleeces, snakes for hair, that kind...
February 14, 2025I have this superstition that something bad will happen if I press “SKIP INTRO” on the credits of Twin Peaks. This is not really out of fealty to David Lynch (to be...
January 23, 2025The kitchen of Laura Palmer’s house is dark although it’s morning, and her mother Sarah Palmer is smoking, calling for her daughter to get ready for school. From the dead...
