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January is a highly chaotic month, resolution colliding with despair. It is a time about newness and a time about giving up. Everyone is shoving too ma…
Helena Fitzgerald
Jan 23
Upstairs at the Angelika a skinny dude, who looks like a teen to me but is probably at least in college, is taking tickets. He is extremely enthusiasti…
Helena Fitzgerald
Jan 7
This is the dead time of year, the days when nothing counts. The time between Christmas and New Years is a gap in the story, a pause in the music, a sp…
Helena Fitzgerald
Dec 31, 2019
hi friends, and welcome to my favorite time of the year. I’ll (probably) send something in the next day or two about why this dead, low-stakes time bet…
Helena Fitzgerald
Dec 27, 2019
“Maps” (by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, off their 2003 album Fever to Tell) is the best song of the 2000s so far and it isn’t even close. Maps (in the interest…
Helena Fitzgerald
Dec 4, 2019
In the spring of the year before the last decade ended, I got incredibly sick with the flu. There was a bad flu with an ugly name, its mascot an animal…
Helena Fitzgerald
Nov 18, 2019
There’s a scaffolding platform on the building across the street from my apartment. The scaffolding went up last week, over the course of a long and un…
Helena Fitzgerald
Nov 6, 2019
hi readers and friends. just a note to remind everyone that the paid-subscriber version of this project has ended, and the free one will end, at least …
Helena Fitzgerald
Nov 3, 2019
one more quick note on subscriptions: It turns out that it’s complicated to turn off new paid subscriptions but keep sending subscriber-only emails. So…
Helena Fitzgerald
Oct 11, 2019
Hi everybody. After a lot of consideration, I've decided to wind Griefbacon down and end this project at the end of 2019. It's been four years, almost …
Helena Fitzgerald
Oct 9, 2019
cw: stuff about drinking, stuff about bodies Gatorade is a trash beverage and I love it with my whole heart. It’s been about a year since I’ve had an a…
Helena Fitzgerald
Oct 4, 2019
Monday was Thomas and my wedding anniversary, but we’ve now been together long enough that I feel stupid and embarrassed writing about our anniversarie…
Helena Fitzgerald
Sep 24, 2019
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