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Top 10 Albums of 2021: 3 Deaths, 2 Weddings, and a Pandemic, the Music That Got Me Through 2021

Posted on December 18, 2021December 19, 2021 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Yea it’s a Top 10 Albums of 2021 List! No it’s not 10 albums long (it’s 9)! Yes it also contains blurbs on 3 honorable

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, Pop Culture DiaryTagged 2021, big red machine, bleachers, bon iver, cultural commentary, culture III, good for you, haim, hip hop, houndmouth, how long do you think it's going to last?, justin vernon, khruangbin, king's disease 2, migos, nas, pop culture, prescriptions for dreamers, silk sonic, sob rock, take the sadness out of saturday night, taylor swift, the moon and stars, think piece, top 10, valerie june, year in review15 Comments on Top 10 Albums of 2021: 3 Deaths, 2 Weddings, and a Pandemic, the Music That Got Me Through 2021

Why Every Straight Man Should Dress in Drag At Least Once In Their Life

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

On Halloween, 2018, I dressed as my then-girlfriend (now-wife) and she dressed as me. The results were, as expected, hilarious. First of all, she looks

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, Pop Culture DiaryTagged costume, drag, dressing like my girlfriend, halloween3 Comments on Why Every Straight Man Should Dress in Drag At Least Once In Their Life

How The Death of My Brother Made Planning My Island Wedding During a Pandemic Even Harder

Posted on October 12, 2021 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Often in life, you don’t realize what you’ve been through until you’ve been through it.  Okay, that sounds dumb. But follow me. A car spins

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Posted in Feature Articles, Pop Culture DiaryTagged corona, fog of grief, grief, pandemic5 Comments on How The Death of My Brother Made Planning My Island Wedding During a Pandemic Even Harder

What The Strongest Conceits in Movie History Taught Me About My Love of Making Lists

Posted on June 15, 2021 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

And Why Horror Has So Many Sub-Genres Colin Farrell is a publicist cheating on his wife: just an all-around gross sentence and also the opening

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, Pop Culture DiaryTagged 30 days of night, arachnophobia, assault on precinct 13, conceits, do the right thing, kung fu panda, listicle, nick of time, nightmare on elm street, panic room, phone booth, speed, the raid 2, the silence of the lambs, the sixth sense, the taking of pelham one two three1 Comment on What The Strongest Conceits in Movie History Taught Me About My Love of Making Lists

Grief in The Time of Coronavirus

Posted on April 20, 2021 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

What Movies Taught Me About Grief and What Grief Taught Me About Life Bruce Springsteen tells us to meet him “in the land of hopes

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, Pop Culture DiaryTagged avengers, brothers, demolition, end game, grief, hereditary, if anything happens i love you, jackie, monster's ball, our friends, steel magnolias, terms of endearment, the descendants, three billboards, widows

White Rapper Confronts His Most Misogynistic Lyrics, 10 Years Later

Posted on April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

In 2011 I released my solo debut album, Lost Summer. Like a lot of things I did in 2011, there are lyrics I cringe at,

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, Pop Culture DiaryTagged misogyny, vision the kid, white rapper

Why That Person On The Bus Is Playing The Music Out Of Their Phone

Posted on February 23, 2021 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings…On The Bus This my confession as an Extra Ass White Boy. For the rational and put-together people of

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, Pop Culture DiaryTagged aretha franklin, bb king, cultural commentary, extra, music, pop music, talib kweli, think piece, white rappers

2020 New Years Special: The Only 12 Good Things in 2020

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

One good thing a month. And even that was hard to find in 2020. Here’s the only 12 (and that’s stretching it) good things that

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In America, Your Team Is Your Chili Is Your Beer

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

One Christmas I was at Mayfair mall, just outside of Milwaukee, WI, looking for a phone case for my mom.  I stopped at one of

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Why Fleetwood Mac is Hitting Different in 2020

Posted on December 8, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

To understand why a video of a man skateboarding along the smooth byways of Idaho Falls, drinking cran-raspberry juice, lip syncing to Fleetwood Mac has

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, Pop Culture DiaryTagged doggface208, fleetwood mac1 Comment on Why Fleetwood Mac is Hitting Different in 2020
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