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     On November 19, 2019, Google launched its Cloud-based gaming service called Stadia. During the pre-launch promotion of Stadia, the cloud service was often touted as the "Netflix" of video games. As the pre-launch and early post-launc...

Pictured Above: Photographer Marry Ellen Mark (featured in Everybody Street) 

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     I studied painting in art school, and I always had a funny relationship with photography. While I absolutely loved to view photography, I never had any inte...

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      Today, we mostly think of the term hedonism and think of heavy indulgence in all things bad. In movies such as The Wolf of Wall Street, it seems as though the great drive to be rich and powerful is solely for the love of overindulgin...

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     Reductionism began roughly with the writings of the philosopher, scholar, and Catholic priest Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). Thomas Aquinas would reintroduce the great Greek philosophers to the West after the long intellectual drought of the Dark...

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       I love the Book of Ecclesiastes because it is very weird that a punk rock thinker was not only allowed to speak, but his safety-pinned ideas were preserved for posterity in a pretty prestigious anthology: The Old Testament.  Most o...

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“Nothing costs more than what you don’t pay for.”

“There’s almost no wish you can make that isn’t very, very dubious indeed.”

--William S. Burroughs 

(Here’s 8 Celebrities Who Practice Chaos Magick by Andrei Burke, ultraculture.com)

     When one thin...

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      We can see our cultural obsession with the body and the way we moralize how we treat our bodies everywhere in our language. We now have something called cheat days. We also use terms like good carbs and bad carbs and...

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     “Object sexuality refers to those individuals who develop deep emotional and/ or romantic attachments to (and have relationships with) specific inanimate objects or structures.” (Intimate and Inanimate: A Brief Look at Object...

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    While strolling through Facebook I stumbled upon an article about Egg McMuffin Rat and how he is rising to fame almost as sharply as the now world-famous Pizza...

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     Whenever I write about a religion, I always like to include a little about my religious background to offer some insight into my bias or perspective on any given religion and to pay respect to people who are faithful followers of th...