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Gandalf approaches the hilly Shire in a rickety horse-drawn wagon.

One Dream to Rule Them All

By Noah Springer • January 16th, 2026

My eyes glaze over and again, my dreams dance on gilded waves, gliding towards Rivendell.

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A moody blank-and-white photo of the three members of the influential 1980s American punk band the Minutemen.

A Lynchpin

By Noah Springer • December 16th, 2025

“How,” you may ask yourself, “did Noah, music critic of a sort, make it to almost 40 years and never run across this incredibly influential band?”

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A photograph of sunlight streaming through an extremely dense thicket of trees and vegetation.

The Strangling Fruit

By Noah Springer • October 31st, 2025

Grass grew, I mowed. Weeds sprouted, I pulled. Mosquitos multiplied, I swatted. And all that time, life pulsed.

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A close-up on the adorable face of the red panda from Pixar's Turning Red, looking at herself in a mirror.

Turning Time

By Noah Springer • October 15th, 2025

Maybe it was those Santa Ana winds driving me insane, or maybe it was the hefty dose of edibles I just scarfed down, but I swore I was back in St. Louis just seconds ago.

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A still from The Double Life of Veronique shows a stylish young woman crossing a street, face turned to the side to watch for oncoming traffic.

Cahiers du Los Angeles

By Noah Springer • August 15th, 2025

Noah explores a bright and guilty place.

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A pair of fake chompers you'd find in an orthodontist's office, both sporting braces bound with colorful rubber bands.

Peak Orthodontist Music

By Noah Springer • July 10th, 2025

If you were being tortured by some dentist around the end of history, check out the Orthodontist Music playlist.

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A heavily computer glitched photo of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, his face seeming to stretch across the whole width of the image.

My Deep, Dark, Terrible Secret

By Noah Springer • May 12th, 2025

Something I rarely share. Something only those closest to me know.

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The late film director David Lynch takes a huge bite of a glazed donut.

Ok, Let’s Try That Again, but This Time Good!

By Noah Springer • March 14th, 2025

If there is someone who I strongly admired and I think stood for something good in the world of the creative industries, it would have to be David Lynch.

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Here, at the End of All Things

By Noah Springer • January 24th, 2025

The potential mass destruction of all Springfields in The Simpsons: Tapped Out was always hovering just beyond the horizon until this fall.

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A close-up photo of three insulin syringes.

Fear and Loathing in Whitechapel

By Noah Springer • December 11th, 2024

I was somewhere deep in Whitechapel, south of Shoreditch, sitting in the ER for the fourth hour in a row, when the drugs began to take hold.

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