My son fell asleep to sleep music. Later, it's sounding weird, so I go to turn it off. It's shitty B-list Hannah Barbara cartoons—blocky, no shading. Slow ominous sounding music plays. There are two voices: one high and scratchy, one low and threatening. I think, “This'd give you fucked up dreams.”

I remember being told this by a teacher at a very young age when one does not question things that when you have a sub-section, there must be at least two. I have wrangled my writing to fit this arbitrary rule.

Madness! Of course you can have a singular sub-topic! Why the fuck not?

I feel so free.

This is a dramatic reading by 30-something self of a 3rd grade Halloween story I'd written for school. (In the video, it incorrectly says 4th grade.)
drive.google.com/file/d/1rgCD...

It fully set in for me how the term "banana republic" is gaslighting on a international scale.

even the europeans see trump as the change candidate

check out the inverse relationship between country happiness score and trump support: