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Virginia Heffernan

20 Jul, 7 tweets, 2 min read

@page88

Good old Substack! Tons of free content and everlasting gratitude to subscribers. Here’s a sample:

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Another sample:

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I consider it a nice methadone step-down for boring yet cortisol-spiking Trump news.

As in, some small hits of politics so you don’t get dopesick but also new avenues of mental freedom: Glenn Gould, Nabokov, muons.

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My column on Clapton down, down on the ground ⁦@latimesopinion⁩ latimes.com/opinion/story/…

To spark memories. Here is Eric Clapton on Jimi Hendrix in 1968 in Rolling Stone.

And of course this classic diatribe from the stage in 1976:

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Soloing flexing guitar gods who claimed they invented the blues who college men have told me are great at tedious length

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Cc @Hannahgadsby

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17 Jul

I seriously wish Stanley Ann Dunham had written a mothering guide.

But then she wouldn’t have been Stanley Ann Dunham.

Also, her intellectual pursuits, global travel, study, trust in her kids’ independence & love-em-and-leave-em adventures wouldn’t have left her the time.

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16 Jul

The oppression continues

Gonna Karen out at this Dunkin’

What kind of America is this if I can’t get a bucket of iced coffee and a half-dozen glazed shirtless?

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Virginia Heffernan

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10 Jul

I get the sense today that most Americans believe that all other Americans hate them.

Ever since the widespread disapproval of sex “out of wedlock,” I’ve never gone wrong assuming that most people think their crowd’s creeds and practices are right and mine and my crowd’s are misguided or even evil.