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IRONJUDEN WAS HERE >_

The old posts survived the migration: dead links, outdated opinions, strange Internet debris, and all. History is more useful when you do not quietly rewrite it.

ENTER THE IRONJUDEN ARCHIVE >_

  • [:ghosts in the signal:]
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    [:ghosts in the signal:]

    There are weeks when the universe desperately needs an editor. This was one of them. Dolly Parton. Tim Curry. Peter Cullen. Three people who occupied completely different corners of popular culture, gone almost at once. And somewhere between seeing the headlines and performing the now-standard ritual of checking whether the Internet was lying to me,…

  • [:we brought tools:]
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    [:we brought tools:]

    We Were Never Cynical. We Were Paying Attention. Everybody is obsessed with generational labels. Boomers killed the economy. Millennials killed napkins. Gen Z can’t look up from their phones. And Gen X? Apparently we just wandered off somewhere in 1994 and nobody bothered to file a missing-person report. Which, honestly, tracks. We are the middle…

  • [:gee, i’m really sorry your mom blew up, ricky:]
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    [:gee, i’m really sorry your mom blew up, ricky:]

    jesus, it’s been almost a year since i touched this thing.  then again, given the advent of the twittersphere/facespace/tiktok/whothefuckknows it’s not like i need to wax ad infinitum when clearly limiting my brain to 140 characters or a cat video will do. here we are.  again.  i felt the need to do it this way, if…