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  Welcome to the Larf awards! I’m going to write a bit about my favorite media from this year in each of the major mediums I engage with. For the most part I’m going to try and limit it to things that came out this year (as is tradition for year end lists) but if I didn’t consume enough new shit then I might bring out something old that I found out about for the first time this year. The TV Show of the Year: Real Housewives of Salt Lake City I don’t really watch much TV these days, as it’s a huge time investment for what is usually low quality programming. The only fictional TV shows I currently follow are Severance and White Lotus, neither of which had new seasons this year. I liked Succession too while it was on. I still think fictional TV can do it for me, and “prestige TV” still has some juice in it, but to have prestige TV you have to actually make something good. In the meantime, we have reality TV. The other shows I enjoyed this year are The Traitors and (as always) RuPaul’...

  In this blog I’m going to be outlining the history of my engagement with recorded music. That is, I’m going to be writing a bit about the artists and albums that I believe had the greatest impact on my taste throughout my life. I feel like I’m reaching the end of my big youthful musical exploration journey and have settled into my taste a bit, so it’s a ripe time for some retrospection. My thoughts on listening to new music are nicely summarized in this tweet.   I’ve always wanted an excuse to organize this for my own benefit, and a personal blog seems like the place. I’m not sure what value others will get out of this, but I hope that it illuminates some of my personality and maybe gives you ideas on how to expand your taste. My first exposure to music came from two sources: piano lessons and my dad’s collection. My parents started me on piano lessons at a very early age, which I continued until I was around 12. I can still play a bit, but the most important thing I got fro...

  Hi! Welcome to reality. You are a human being, a mammal with a rather large brain. You are on Earth, a planet in the Milky Way galaxy. You’re probably going to stay on Earth your whole life despite all the other planets and stars up there, so get used to it here and keep it nice. You probably have a lot more questions, which is normal. Unfortunately we haven’t figured everything out yet, but we’re working on it. You can even become one of those people if you’re interested. If you want to see what we’ve figured out so far, most of that information is going to be in books or online on Wikipedia. If you apply yourself, you can grasp any ideas that we have come up with so far, I promise. Speaking of online, use that thing sparingly, there’s a lot of people trying to trap you there. Here are some of the things you might want to know that we haven’t figured out yet:  Why does reality exist, since it seems like not existing is much more probable? We’ve found that just about everyth...