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In Praise of Cultural Appropriation
Doing my best to obliterate the things that stand between us.
 • Brian Lund
Worried Sick About the Election Results? You Must Read This
No matter which side you're on, let me put your mind at ease.
 • Brian Lund
How To Bring a Loved One Back From the Dead
Let me tell you about a secret power you don’t know you have.
 • Brian Lund
Happy Birthday, You've Got Cancer
A journey through the underbelly of our (okay, my) fragile mortality.
 • Brian Lund
You’re Still Here. Not Everyone Had That Choice
If you're reading this, you're still in the game. And that's not nothing, it's everything.
 • Brian Lund
They Finally Broke Me: I'm Going to Get a Goddamn Cat!
A post in which I definitively solve the dog/cat debate.
 • Brian Lund
Time to Say Goodbye to the Future You Imagined
Nobody cares who you thought you'd be—and it’s who you are that matters.
 • Brian Lund
One Small Step for Man, One Broken Foot That Fucked Up My Dream Vacation
Nobody knows the first-world troubles I've seen.
 • Brian Lund
Here’s What It’s Like To Hang Out With Billionaires
And what I've figured out about their lives.
 • Brian Lund
Here’s Why There’s a Gun by My Head Every Night
"All theory, dear friend, is grey, but the golden tree of actual life springs ever green" - Goethe
 • Brian Lund
No One in This World Can Love a Girl More Than Her Father
And in many other worlds she left me.
 • Brian Lund
Odd Duck
Watch out. Sometimes it skips a generation.
 • Brian Lund
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