On Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In The Aeroplane Over the Sea,” Anne Frank, and Parks and Rec in the Age of Mass-Deportations
“Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.” -Emerson
Hagoth favors essays that can trace their lineage back to Michel de Montaigne; whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find the occasional poem or piece of fiction here as well.
“Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.” -Emerson
On the distinct possibility that a sarcastic old Skate-Punk track isn’t being sarcastic in the slightest…
Just in time for an especially rough Holiday season.

With apologies to Gil Scott-Heron and Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Please, remember me/At Halloween…

On the ghosts of the San Patricios

I was a stranger, and ye took me not in…
“Yes, Armageddon lies ahead. But so does Adam-ondi-Ahman!” -Neal A. Maxwell
Hard as it might be to remember now, but there was a hot minute in the mid-2000s when Mormonism’s own Jon Heder seemed to have an outside chance of making the jump to actual mainstream Hollywood stardom.

On why, perhaps, it was so important to JRR Tolkein that there be a King who returns, in his Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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