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A Hurricane of Fire
When all else fails, we can still depend on each other
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What I Saw, What I Read, and What I Did in 2024
My personal culture diary of this past year
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For My Paid Subscribers: The Tradition of the Christmas Ghost Story
O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum...
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Atlas Obscura: A New Christmas Ghost Story
Gabriela Wagner’s Tomb, Balmorhea, Texas, Unites States. This seemingly out-of-place Baroque mausoleum sits peacefully in a field in the middle of…
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Cris Skelton
Building worlds as an avoidance tactic
You’re lost without the sauce, but you can get lost in the sauce.
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Landman is a little too real for me
The latest Taylor Sheridan show continues his tradition of arguing that the villains of old Westerns actually had some great ideas if you think about…
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How I learned to love reading
Social media | Subtext | Hardy Boys | It takes a village
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Man About Town
Man About Town
My name's Cris, and once a week you'll receive a smorgasbord of writing about the things that are getting me out of bed. Come on this adventure through the world with me and we'll see if there's anything worth our wonder.

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