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In Praise of School Shootings
I wrote this earlier this year in September after a tragic school shooting whose details I’ve already forgotten. I sent it to various magazines and papers, but nobody wanted it. So it sat in a folder on my computer for nearly four months. After yesterday’s events as well as the recent events surrounding the killing…
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Welcome to the Bubblegum Dystopia Era
Everything you want and nothing you need… America is no stranger to the dystopian genre, but a certain sub-genre permeates so much of today’s popular culture, literature, music, and film that it now has its own name: Bubblegum Dystopia. While the term was first used by production designer David Warner to describe the candy colored…
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