Alex Burns
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Alex Burns
Send handwritten letters
In this essay, I go deep on a Great American Bromance: the handwritten letters shared between Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think most of us are so out of touch touch with letter writing (beyond stiff wedding Thank Yous) that we’d assume letters demand a formal comportment — and are therefore boring, onerous,... See more
In this essay, I go deep on a Great American Bromance: the handwritten letters shared between Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think most of us are so out of touch touch with letter writing (beyond stiff wedding Thank Yous) that we’d assume letters demand a formal comportment — and are therefore boring, onerous,... See more
The Analog Life: 50 Ways to Unplug and Feel Human Again
Yesterday, ESPN reported that Ippei Mizuhara, the former translator who is accused of stealing $16 million from Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani to pay for his gambling addiction,has a connection to The Real Housewives of Orange County .
I really never thought this day would come. An ESPN headline about one of the biggest sports betting... See more
I really never thought this day would come. An ESPN headline about one of the biggest sports betting... See more
The Real Housewives of Sports Betting Scandals
"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
—Arthur C. Clarke
It should take time to figure out which hike you want to take. It should take time to learn how to make bread. It should take time to read, to really read, Toni Morrison or James Joyce. It should take time to figure out what kind of music moves you, and what kind of clothes feel like you, and to discern the different calls a bird makes. It should... See more
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it's ok to be curated
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