What Happens When Everyone Gets Bored with the Scolds?
Don Hall Don Hall Don Hall Don Hall

What Happens When Everyone Gets Bored with the Scolds?

We're bored out of our everliving skulls with the hysteria. The faux outrage has worn us right the fuck out. We're fed-up with Bob Dylan being accused of doing something in 1965 and moving on with life. We're nodding off every time we hear someone (usually young but not always) crying wolf every moment of every day.

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The First Call
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The First Call

The ringing of the phone reverberated throughout the office. You can tell who’s calling by the ring, whether it’s a good call or one which foretells disaster. The phone knows. Its voice sends you a message. You have to be smart enough, open enough, to understand its language.

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The Artistic Subtlety of “Pig” and Nicolas Cage
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The Artistic Subtlety of “Pig” and Nicolas Cage

I texted my friend, Adam, who appreciates the Cagester more than me. “We’ve got to see this,” I said, basically wanting to see it to mock Cage. We did. And when it ended, I was stunned. It was nothing like I expected. No hazardous car chases. No deathly shootouts. No exaggerations. Just a lonely man looking for his pig. It was, simply put, sensational.

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Carpe
Don Hall, Fiction Don Hall Don Hall, Fiction Don Hall

Carpe

His dad used to tell him (when the man was sober) that life gave you three choices: fail and wallow in it, coast and be unfulfilled, or swing for the fences and maybe—MAYBE—do something notable.

Dad seemed to be OK with the first.

Swing for the fences. Seize the day.

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Introducing XwhyZ Podcast!
Don Hall Don Hall Don Hall Don Hall

Introducing XwhyZ Podcast!

Jackie Brandenburg is young. She’s a Zoomer. She is frightfully Woke. She also just received her college degree in Politic Science so she knows a thing or two about both the ills of the world and some ideas on how to solve them.

I have more life experience than Jackie. She’s already smarter than me.

Thus, XwhyZ.

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The Orwellian DoubleSpeak of Anti-
Don Hall Don Hall Don Hall Don Hall

The Orwellian DoubleSpeak of Anti-

We're now entering the DADAist stage of American dysfunction as we are all desperately trying to communicate ideas to others who simply aren't using the same language. It sounds the same but meanings are changing and it fuels more frustration and anger and results in an almost non-stop confrontation.

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