Twenty-Something Year Old Journalist

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Essays, observations, and occasional investigations into the strange business of being twenty-something.

Essentially, I’m in my twenties. This is how I think. This is how I write.

  • A Review of SNL S52E3

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    Sometimes, a Saturday Night Live episode spurs the primal desire within me to analyze it like a game analyst. To put it simply, I feel as though I am the Charles Barkley of SNL coverage. SNL 1-2.  Did Shane Gillis save SNL? No. But it looks like SNL realized their Dakota-Johnson-sized mistakes last episode and knew they needed to put their best foot forward this week. Jalen Brunson was already off to a slow start; Johnson then missed the layup.  Am I the biggest Shane Gillis fan? No. Do I find him, at times, talented? Yes. And everyone knows comedians…

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  • Let Them Eat Cake

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    Stardom is certainly a double edged sword. On one hand, you have millions of people inspired by and in love with you. On the other hand, the exact same thing. It’s a tough toss up.  The debate is always around whether celebrities owe us anything. In their defense, all they did was be good enough at something people wanted to see (or they were a nepo baby, hot, a man, shot a sex tape, or hunting for their fifteen minutes). Why should they owe us anything for simply having such talent? Good point. It sucks to be so talented and…

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  • California Chicken Cafe

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    I sometimes think about texting him. I won’t, but the thought still regularly passes my mind.  What went wrong? Did I do something? I thought we had a good thing going. A consistently good thing going.  I come over to his place, we take a walk, we order California Chicken Cafe, we get high and eat our California Chicken Cafe while watching whatever show or movie he was able to find on an illegal streaming service and then we have sex.  It was routine, and it was nice. We didn’t text much during the days where we weren’t seeing each…

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