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    Kyle Garret
    • Nov 27, 2020
    • 2 min

    I don't have strong enough words for this

    This world is wrong, but it's the only one we have.

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    Kyle Garret
    • Oct 6, 2020
    • 3 min

    I miss the comfort in being sad.

    Sadness is a security blanket that's not actually secure.

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    Kyle Garret
    • Oct 3, 2020
    • 3 min

    The pandemic icing on my 45th birthday cake

    This is my first birthday since I cut my father out of my life.

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    Kyle Garret
    • Jun 16, 2020
    • 3 min

    A Eulogy for The Magicians, Part 2: Magic Comes From Pain

    What a silver fucking lining, right? It's kind of a tricky concept and one which is thrown around on the show with far too little explana...

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    Kyle Garret
    • Jun 15, 2020
    • 2 min

    A Eulogy for The Magicians, Part 1: The Space Between

    When Quentin finds his way to Brakebills University, he has spent his life trying to reconcile two worlds, the one around him and the one...

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    Kyle Garret
    • Jun 8, 2020
    • 3 min

    Poor some out for the parent shaming bloggers

    I don't know if you know this, but you should never, ever use a phone or any other piece of electronics around your children. They will t...

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    Kyle Garret
    • May 26, 2020
    • 3 min

    The Pandemic Is The First Time I've Ever Felt Bad About Being An Introvert

    Being an introvert has not, relatively speaking, caused that many problems for me. I have no doubt that I would be more successful as far...

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    Kyle Garret
    • Apr 24, 2019
    • 5 min

    There has to be more to The Magicians’ season 4 finale

    Where to even begin? I cried. I cried even though I “knew” that Quentin Coldwater’s death would not be permanent. Alice came back from th...

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    Kyle Garret
    • Sep 5, 2018
    • 3 min

    Micro-inclusiveness: Raising a white boy

    Note: This is from a year ago. My son still has the same best friend. My son is four. He is as white as they come. His current cartoon fi...

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    Kyle Garret
    • Oct 24, 2017
    • 2 min

    What I said when my son asked me what make-up was

    I stopped myself. I almost answered with the first thing that came into my head, but made a change before anything came out of my mouth. ...

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    Kyle Garret
    • Aug 29, 2017
    • 3 min

    I’m the worst artist

    I really am. I don’t mean artist as in a person who draws things. I mean artist as in person who creates art. Periodically, I think about...

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    Kyle Garret
    • Dec 20, 2016
    • 6 min

    Trying to be Superman

    I wrote this a few years ago, when our oldest son was only a few years old and when he was our only son, not our oldest. It's all still a...

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    Kyle Garret
    • Jul 5, 2016
    • 4 min

    My Awkward Association with Punk Rock Part 2

    I mostly ordered records from Subpop and Dischord, since I knew I liked the Afghan Whigs and I knew I liked Jawbox (although I'd first h...

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    Kyle Garret
    • Jun 30, 2016
    • 3 min

    My Awkward Association with Punk Rock Part 1

    Like most kids, I grew up listening to Top 40. I listened to Casey Kasem’s (and later, Rick Dees’) countdown show every Sunday, if I cou...

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    Kyle Garret
    • Jun 28, 2016
    • 3 min

    Discovering Hip Hop at 40

    Having kids leads to some strange changes in your life. Like listening to hip hop. I was born in the mid-70s, so suggesting that I’m a ch...

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    Kyle Garret
    • Jul 26, 2011
    • 1 min

    About “I Pray Hardest…”

    After the attack on Pearl Harbor, eighteen-year-old Robert Stuart had a decision to make: keep working at the steel mill in Warren, Ohio...

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    Kyle Garret
    • 3 min

    Poor some out for the parent shaming bloggers

    I don't know if you know this, but you should never, ever use a phone or any other piece of electronics around your children. They will t...
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