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3 Feet High and Rising is such an incredible record. The sampling, the humor, the blending of different styles of music. Their music always lifts me up. Also, I may have a small crush on Kelvin Mercer in those wireframe glasses. đ«
Jan 16, 2025
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One of the best hip-hop albums of all time. There was nothing else like it in 1989.
Oct 29, 2024
sublime & underrated 90s album with almost club-like addicting beats, airy vocals & hip hop elements. Seems like everyoneâs experience with this artist is âwow i heard this song on my local radio station in 1990-something and i still canât get it off my mindâ.
Current fav song: âFallâ
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Feb 26, 2025
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Iâm not a parent and do not plan to be. Kids can wear me out fast with their high energy and noise level; it leaves me very over-stimulated. But itâs pretty extreme when people say they âhate kidsâ and I often feel itâs a reflection of their childhood and beliefs around how kids âshould be.â That they were expected to be quiet, obedient, and out of the way by their parents when they were little.
Itâs fucking hard to be a kid. Youâre dealing with a rapidly-changing body and underdeveloped brain, managed by flawed adults who are enforcing boundaries that you do not understand. Itâs confusing and hard to manage your feelings and honestly just a lot.
People are impatient with kids when theyâre brand new to the world and figuring it all out, and this is a time kids need a friend the most. Children can also be teachers to adults with how they are less habituated to the world. They teach us how to be free and open-hearted and silly and imaginative.
A good practice is to be kinder and gentler with kids. If that feels difficult, start with gentleness toward your inner child. Maybe thatâs the child in your life that needs your attention and kindness most.
Apr 16, 2025
I meant to post this yesterday. Absolutely beautiful morning for walk.
This morning is also beautiful but in a spring rain kind of way.
Mar 23, 2025
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Prescriptive gender is a prison. Rather than gender being a form of self-expression, gender is treated as a pass/fail test for how well you can conform to cultural expectations.
Since I was young, I remember feeling a great deal of pressure to conform to these expectations around what âmenâ are meant to be. You like sports, cars, womanizing, aggression, and not having feelings. I felt so distant from this ideal. I was sensitive and shy, and I preferred spending my time being creative in some way
For a long time, I felt like I was failing at âbeing a man.â In many ways I was! Because I didnât need to bea man. All I needed to be was myself.
Itâs taken me a long time to separate myself from prescriptive gender, sharpening in on which aspects of masculine energy I identify with and which I donât. Iâm not done yet. Maybe I will never fully be. The self continues to evolve over time, and I suspect aspects of my gender will too.
Mar 15, 2025