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.
Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle[1]Released as the lead single to their 1978 album Jazz–which, ironically, contains no JazzI want to ride my bicycle, bicycle, bicycle[2]Freddy Mercury (née
Much like Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA,” Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” is one of those purportedly “patriotic” songs whose subversive lyrics
Today, January 30th, marks the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” AKA the Bogside Massacre, when 26 unarmed, nonviolent civilians were killed by police in Derry,
Jules Verne’s famously critiqued H.G. Well’s novels because Wells refused to give the technical specs for his time machines, Martian tripods, and human-animal hybrids on
Another reason why the Sunday sabbath can be the hardest is because religion, which is supposed to be a consolation in our anxieties, can also
[Note: like most Jazz albums, John Coltrane’s legendary 1965 LP A Love Supreme is largely an instrumental. However, within the record-sleeve’s inner fold, Coltrane included
When I first began teaching Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” over a decade ago, it was primarily because I was
Back during that summer after high school, I decided to not believe in God anymore. Not because of anything the Church did, mind you. Polygamy, racism
One night I had a dream wherein I analyzed the ending to Raiders of the Lost Ark in the context of Freud’s Theme of the
Ever since I wrote last week’s Beatles post, I’ve been reflecting more and more lately about that empty, motivation-less Summer after High School–when I didn’t
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