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SUM(July2013:July2020)
When I got lonely, I would express that feeling by writing about geography, current events, and my personal life, outlining the ways those forces contributed to that loneliness.
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Juneteenth
You’ll likely lose any love you ever had for this beast of a man, and with it will go any unconditional respect you have for the establishment of America as a country.
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Vantablack
The visual cortex begins to interpret images and even change them before it even processes fully what they are, meaning that we often see things that aren’t actually there.
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The Lost Nerds of the 1980s
Mana, spell slots, pocket monsters, and midnight showings are all these worlds ever need.
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Pokemon, Ranked
What culture doesn’t have a myth of a turtle who keeps the world, or at least a small forest, on its back.
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The History of #Hashtag
If you’re like me, up until a few years ago, when someone said the word “hash” to you, your brain would autocomplete by adding the word “brown” after it. And if you’re like me, you would inevitably start to salivate and search the surrounding area for said potatoey goodness. (Side note: what is it about potatoes that makes them delicious in every cooked form? But alas, this is a history lesson, not a science lesson, and, coincidentally, it has nothing to do with potatoes.) Of course now things are a bit different. Intelligent people do still crave fried potatoes of course, but the word “hash” is more frequently followed by…
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Matthew Brady’s True Legacy
He did everything it took to get those photographs. If there was a particularly artistic patch of land that happened to have no bodies, he and his crew would move them into position before shooting.
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Dedicated Here to the Unfinished Work
Back in this time without television, movie theaters, and rock concerts, public speeches were exciting and entertaining, and, for the country town of Gettysburg, likely very rare. People would ride for hours, perhaps even days to hear someone.
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One Hundred Seventy One
Later today, two brigades of enemy infantry will march down Chambersburg Pike. Buford and his men will do their best, but they will be easily outmatched and overridden.
