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Notes from the Comfort Gulag
We don’t want reality. We want the sweet hum of being told we're right.
Aug 12
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Owen McGrann
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Content discontent
Please engage with this high-effort, low-metric creative asset.
Aug 6
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Owen McGrann
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And you may find yourself...
...living in a democracy that no longer believes in itself
Aug 1
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Owen McGrann
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A funny thing happened on the way to a revision
Change happens slowly and often imperceptibly when the change acts on you
Jul 29
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Owen McGrann
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Margin Notes and Mercy
There's no such thing as solitary art
Jul 22
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Owen McGrann
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OTR, Take 63: Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
The Nostalgia Loop
Jul 19
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Owen McGrann
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Wrapped In a Flag & Carrying a Cross
On the fiction of the return
Jul 17
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Owen McGrann
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My Little Biological Weapon
On loving someone who could kill you
Jul 14
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Owen McGrann
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1:13:19
Ep 28 - Heart Animals and Finite Things
Listen now | Amy lost her cat Roy two weeks before we recorded this episode.
Jul 7
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The Most Beautiful Sunrise I Will Never See
Sometimes I lie awake in wonder that I, a self-referential, recursive consciousness, exist at all.
Jun 3
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Owen McGrann
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Ep 27 - Maybe Just Accept that You're Intense
Pat Patino chills with intensity.
Jun 2
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Turtles all the way down
Selfhood, story, and the recursive illusion of being real
May 31
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Owen McGrann
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Americans Don't Like Kings
The Dangerous Fiction of the Unitary Executive
May 3
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Through Rupture and Rapture
The quiet emergence of alien minds—and the unfinished task of being human.
Apr 29
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