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Magic Actions: Looking back on the George Floyd rebellion - n+1 Damn. I don't have enough adjectives for this one. Vast. Heavy....
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Wes Hazard
Apr 23, 20213 min
Understand
I cannot stop thinking about a short story/novelette that I read earlier this week, Understand by Ted Chiang. The week before last I was...
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Wes Hazard
Apr 9, 20213 min
Falling Down... With A Plan
'London Bridge is down': the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death - The Guardian (2017) Beyond a history nerd's appreciation...
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Wes Hazard
Apr 9, 20211 min
Meet People Where They Are
I have not had very much experience interacting with or caring for older people with dementia but I ran across this randomly on Twitter...
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Wes Hazard
Apr 1, 20211 min
Crispus Attucks: Zero To Hero
Over the past 2 weeks I put in a bunch of research time on a comedy/history project about Crispus Attucks, his role in the Boston...
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Wes Hazard
Mar 31, 20213 min
A Haunting & Necessary Resource
Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery Straight up: white Americans take slavery too lightly. I truly believe this is one of the core...
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Wes Hazard
Mar 11, 20212 min
History Throwback: To Be Black, In Brooklyn, And In Business at the turn of the 20th Century.
The Negro in Business in Greater New York - The Colored American Magazine Vol. X, No.3 (March, 1906) Here we have an image captured from...
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Wes Hazard
Mar 11, 20211 min
A Master Class in Acting & The Trauma of Toxic Masculinity
The 1924 Richard Connell short story The Most Dangerous Game (about a man who winds up being hunted for sport in a remote location by a...
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Wes Hazard
Feb 20, 20212 min
A Profound Effort
Lolita Podcast Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita is the story of a conniving, narcissistic, middle-aged child rapist & murderer...
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Wes Hazard
Feb 15, 20211 min
This One's For The Lonelyhearts
I've included both of these playlists in past issues of the WesRecs newsletter before but as we are we're in Valentine's Day hangover I...
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Wes Hazard
Feb 15, 20211 min
And It's Just Plain Annoying Too???
Capitalism will kill you, crush you, rob you, and turn you into a debt slave. But it will also just really really inconvenience you and...
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Wes Hazard
Feb 7, 20212 min
That Was unexpectedly worthwhile
Sometimes you forget just how weird and wild and unexpected...and rewarding...the Internet can be. And then you stumble across something...
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Wes Hazard
Feb 5, 20216 min
I don't want to be a connoisseur of death footage
City releases body camera video showing shooting of Andre' Hill by Columbus police officer Adam Coy It is a testament to both the general...
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Wes Hazard
Feb 2, 20211 min
"No, No Susan."
OK I’m thinking we can get at least a feature film, if not a 4 part docu-series about this specific moment in Black History - I like...
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Wes Hazard
Jan 28, 20211 min
Once again I've missed instant fortune. Oh well.
Crowd Sourcing a Short Squeeze via Reddit While Nuking a Hedge Found and on Behalf of Gamestop For Dummies. In this week's edition of...
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Wes Hazard
Jan 23, 20214 min
No, this is *not* a movie
If you'd asked me at age 17 what my favorite movie was I would have probably said Fight Club. I thought it was a fun, well-made, movie...
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Wes Hazard
Jan 23, 20211 min
how to have fun in harlem (in 1932)
What an awesome piece of history that I stumbled upon while stumbling upon the MLK editorial from earlier this week. This is an intricate...
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Wes Hazard
Jan 19, 20211 min
Just so we're clear on stakes here...
Above is a quote from The Handmaid's Tale which has haunted me ever since I read it a few years ago and which I included in a piece I...
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Wes Hazard
Jan 5, 20213 min
R.I.P. Barry Lopez
Madre De Dios - An amazing essay from a mind that will be missed This week I was scanning one of the countless newsletters that I ...
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