Into The Wild
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The 'Into the Wild' Bus is Now in a Museum February 19, 2024
On June 18, 2020, Carine McCandless got a call from Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources. Corri Feige, the commissioner at the time, wanted to give her a heads-up: the abandoned bus where Carine’s brother, Chris, had briefly lived and then died w...
TikTokers Have Some Advice For Joe Biden’s New Account February 16, 2024
The Biden-Harris campaign made its TikTok debut during the Super Bowl Sunday night. Their first video, which already has well over 8 million views, riffed on the wild conspiracy theory that President Joe Biden rigged the game for the Kansas City Chie...
The Lure of Divorce February 15, 2024
In the summer of 2022, I lost my mind. At first, it seemed I was simply overwhelmed because life had become very difficult, and I needed to — had every right to — blow off some steam. Our family was losing its apartment and had to find another one, f...
My Full Circle Moment in Kansas City February 15, 2024
What up, Substack fam! Happy Valentine’s Day. First off, a sincere apology for not posting here as consistently as I have in the past. We are officially one month out from VICTIM’s release (wild shit, right?) and your boy has been quite busy—in a goo...
How the Chiefs Became the Last Great American Dynasty February 14, 2024
Did you really think that the Kansas City Chiefs were not going to win the Super Bowl? It’s true that they struggled offensively this season, and entered the playoffs as a wild card, forcing them to compete in an extra game while the San Francisco 49...
In Praise of Toby Keith and Carl Weathers February 08, 2024
In early January, I lost a dear friend, Jeff Guillebeau, a natural leader of men. His human heart could not keep up with the sacrificial love demanded of it by his warrior spirit. Jeff was 59....
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Art February 07, 2024
Art is useless, said Wilde. Art is for art’s sake—that is, for beauty’s sake. But why do we possess a sense of beauty to begin with? A question we will never answer. Perhaps it’s just a kind of superfluity of sexual attraction. Nature needs us to fee...
‘Argylle’ Review February 06, 2024
MATTHEW VAUGHN STACKS THE LAYERS of metafiction as high as he can in Argylle, a spy-action-comedy that’s a book within a movie within another series of movies, maybe. Possibly.The plot is both simple and aggressively convoluted: Elly Conway (Bryce Da...
