Month: March 2022
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Older People Frustrated by Youth-Driven Companies
Dear Walmart (pronounced Wahl-maht for dramatic effect), and McDonalds: Present circumstances compel me to write you, to beseech you to never allow teens, or those in their 20’s, or those of arrested in teen sensibilities to do substitutions on foodstuffs. And for you, McDonald’s to likewise keep our undeveloped youths from mixing coffees. Whilst my…
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As a Racially Ambiguous Actor, the Kindness of Strangers Has Defined My Path
“I have always relied on the kindness of strangers.” – Blanche Dubois Every opportunity I’ve ever gotten was because someone believed in me. More often than not, that person was my Pop (R.I.P.) or a woman—usually a stranger. It’s a curious phenomenon: strangers have often believed in me more than friends or family I’ve…
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Memoir: That Golden Thread from Childhood, Still Tethers Me to My Parents
Technology, Science, and The Arts Converge Upon an Outcast Boy This is what I want for Christmas. A 2-xl Robot from 1978 and the T.I. Personal computer from 1983…It was the first learning toy I got when I was 8 years old. And my first computer at the age of 12 or 13. My parents…