Riffs on LCD Soundsystem’s Christmas Will Break Your Heart
A riff on a song that never actually mentions the song.
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.
A riff on a song that never actually mentions the song.

In solidarity with the striking UC grad students and the striking New School adjuncts in NYC.
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me

Just how literally do we believe the dead are with us anyways?


What I realized from both the most tone-deaf, and the most passionate, stake high-council speakers I ever encountered as a YSA.

Back around the turn of the millennium in the backwoods of the Pacific Northwest, my teenage self was selected to some “Stake Youth Leadership Committee”

Remember that all we are is what we love, and not a fragment more.

Pablo Neruda wished to do with you what Spring does to cherry blossoms/ That old communist, who sought for United Order but knew not where to find it

On the ineffable quirkiness of the Mexican Day of the Dead, English Guy Fawkes Day, and U.S. Thanksgiving.
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