evanfleischer
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1. This runs the risk of making me me sound like a broken record, but … this is a great use of a platform, and it’s an example of where things structurally need to go.
2. Can’t believe the Biden inauguration team brought out Garth Brooks but didn’t bring out popular rock singer Chris Gaines as well. Preferably immediately following Garth. With no vamping in-between.
3. Thinking about this and what the timeline of adoption might look like for my area.
4. For my Rhode Island friends.
5. Solidarity with those participating in today’s work stoppage at The New Yorker.
7. Rapid antigen testing means a faster return to ‘normal’ (however we’re defining that term these days.)
“Because epitaphs — well struck — give death — our voracious master — heartburn. Because fiction imitates life’s beauty, thereby inventing the beauty life lacks. Because fiction is the best position — at once exotic and familiar — for fucking the world. Because fiction — mediating paradox — celebrates it … Because — in its terrible isolation — it is a path to brotherhood.”
– Robert Coover answering the question, ‘Why Write?’
For those thinking ahead to Christmas songs they might want to play, may I humbly suggest …
“Here’s where that story currently stands: as of 2018, 88% of renters in the Boston metro area couldn’t afford their neighborhood’s median rent. … The city needs to build 15,000 homes every year in order to keep track with population growth. (It has never hit that threshold.) Rent is currently among the highest in the nation outside of New York City, San Francisco, and San Jose. The average median net worth for African-Americans in the city is $8. And, as Elliot Schmiedl noted in a blog post over at Massachusetts Housing Partnership, the financial burden for African-American families doesn’t just end there: “… five cities accounted for 45.7 percent of all loans to black borrowers in Massachusetts in 2017. Black borrowers received no home-purchase loans in 129 of the state’s 351 cities and towns and only a single loan in 50 communities.””
(Source: evanfleischer)
“The Joke.”
