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Yes, yes, many people are fond of James Joyce and his writing, but this bawdy BDSM erotica does better at engaging with the past.
To be in conversation with the past, ideas have to flow both ways. With “Lost Boi,” a gritty, realist, genderqueer retelling of Peter Pan, Sassafras Lowrey pulls it off.
Barbara Hamby, BDSM, capon, consent, English, erotica, etymology, Ezra Pound, fantasy, genderqueer, Gillian Anderson, heroin, James Joyce, Joyce, Lost Boi, modern English, modernity, mythology, Peter Pan, poly, polyamory, puns, reviews, Sassafras Lowrey, scortatory, Shakespeare, Stephen Dedalus, T. S. Eliott, theatre, Ulysses, Want
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On Narcan and the perception of care.
I was talking to someone recently about the availability of Narcan where we live (a college town in southern Indiana, population 80,000). Narcan is a medication that blocks opiate receptors. When given to someone who recently overdosed on heroin, fentanyl, or painkillers, Narcan can save their life. # In the lobby of the county jail,…
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On amusement parks, depression, and familiarity with death.
Some types of fun aren’t meant for everyone …
Albert Camus, amusement park, amusement parks, car crash, death, depression, execution, familiarity with death, Fyodor Dostoevsky, gun violence, heroin, heroin overdose, Lauren Hough, Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing, Narcan, overdose, pardon, preventable death, psychology, psychology experiments, psychology of amusement parks, psychology studies, psychology study, Scarecrow Scrambler, Scramblers, self-harm, suicidal ideation, suicide, The Idiot, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Scrambler
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On fire and ash.
The phoenix falls into fire, burns, and dies. Then rises again, reborn. The phoenix triumphs over adversity. Life gets hard, excruciatingly hard. Everything falls to shit. But the phoenix rises again. Or so we hope. Sometimes, the fire burns too hot. And then the phoenix dies and stays dead. Sometimes ash isn’t a phoenix egg.…
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On dealing.
For deftly navigating the vagaries of supply and demand, M.B.A. students are praised. Dealers wind up in jail.
A.E. Stalling, Art Monster, Art Monster poem, Bloomington, college town, college town drugs, dealing, dope, dope dealing, drones, drug crimes, drug deal gone wrong, drug dealing, drug laws, drug-related crimes, gentrification, heroin, housing policy, Indiana University, jail poetry, jail poetry workshop, low-income housing, manslaughter, marijuana, meth, methamphetamine, minotaur, minotaur poem, murder, OD, overdose, paranoia, poetry, poetry analysis, police, police policy, policing, pot, Stalling, teaching in jail, teaching poetry, teaching poetry in jail, Vigilante, War on Drugs
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On overdose.
Minority heroin users were anonymously demonized for decades; now they’re being killed.
cartels, cocaine, dope, Dope to the Cut, drug dealers, fentanyl, H, heroin, incarceration, jail poetry, jail poetry workshop, mass incarceration, opiates, opiods, overdose, overdose deaths, poetry, racial disparities in drug treatment, synthetic opiods, teaching in jail, teaching poetry in jail, The Washington Post, War on Drugs -
On nature.
Nature heals, but we yank the world away from people in need.
boaters, boats, cell block, concrete, contraband, domestic violence, drug use, evolution, finding a way to survive, forest bathing, Greazy, Grow, growing a tree in jail, heroin, human evolution, human instincts, incarceration, instincts, instinctual behaviors, instinctual urges, jail block, jail boats, jail poetry, life inside jail, mass incarceration, medicine, methamphetamine, nature, nature bathing, nature walks, opiates, our man, Our Man Grows an Orange Tree, plants, poem, poetry, prison poetry, stress, teaching poetry, teaching poetry in jail, withdrawal
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On intent.
Our criminal justice system routinely destroys lives after divining a person’s intent from actions. But now, suddenly, we need proof.
45, bankrupting the U.S. government, climate change, collusion, conspiracy, Donald Trump, falling tax receipts, handouts to billionaires, heroin, impeachment, inequality, intent to sell, interference in free elections, Is Trump a Russian agent, jail, kickbacks, mass incarceration, methamphetamine, political kickbacks, politics, possession with intent, PotUS, President Trump, proof, racial injustice, racist policing, Rikers, Russian agent, Russian collution, sabotage, soda straw, straw, Trump
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On loneliness.
It’s well known that loneliness wrecks brains … so why are we imposing it on the people we expect better behavior from?
addiction, animal welfare, biomedical research, coke, cooperation, crime, crime deterrence, Daniel Weary, David Grimm, dendritic growth, evolution, evolution of cooperation, health risks of incarceration, heroin, imposed loneliness, incarceration, isolation, jail, John-Michael Bloomquist, lab animals, lab mouse, laboratory animals, loneliness, loneliness epidemic, mass incarceration, meth, mice, mouse, neuron growth, parole, parole officer, parole violation, pot, probation, punishing defectors, punishment, rehab, rehabilitation, research animals, science, Surgeon General, The Prodigal’s Return, Vivek Murthy, War on Drugs
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On automation, William Gaddis, and addiction.
An inefficient world might be a much better place to live.
Agape Agape, AI, artificial intelligence, automation, Brian Alexander, Capital, capitalism, corporate managers, corporate takeover, death of small towns, delivery drone, drug prices, economics, evolutionary inefficiencies, Glass House, greed, heroin, human evolution, inequality, investors, J R, Jeff Bezos, jobs that robots can do, JR, labor economics, labor vs. capital, machine learning, Mark Binelli, meth, people want jobs, people want to work, piano roll, player piano, robot doctors, robot lawyers, robot writers, robotics, robots, robots designed by robots, The Michigan Experiment, unemployment, wealth, who should the stakeholders of a school be, William Gaddis
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