Insight like this is why I read you.

…ing door away from that life, and the L.L. Bean catalog is just an errant artifact from a lost era. I’m not going to need any L.L. Bean duck boots or camping gear, because my life is now just a combination of benzos, the iPhone calculator app, bad television and chocolate and L.L. Bean is definitely not selling that.

The Pain of the L.L. Bean Catalog

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Geo Snelling

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Insight like this is why I read you. Overall you channeled a bit of Sedaris (a compliment). See his “happy-go-lucky” essay about visiting his old man in the 9 Aug 2021 edition of the New Yorker.

Written by Geo Snelling

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Writing my thoughts with the goal of prompting yours, from a timezone consisting of only 5M people. I work at a confluence of art and software engineering.

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