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The Duel

Posted in The Duel with tags , , , , , , , on April 7, 2024 by Jarrod Boyle

The Wait

“I was so scared on my first amateur fight, I wanted to… I went downstairs, ‘I’m going to the store in the Bronx, New York, I’m going to the store…’ and I went downstairs. Man, I should get on this train and never come back, I wanted to get on the train and just leave, I was so scared. I didn’t want to fight anybody.”

Mike Tyson,

Tyson.

I once had an argument with a guy I used to bounce with.

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The Duel

Posted in The Duel with tags , , , , , on January 10, 2024 by Jarrod Boyle

Dragged Backwards – Into The Past – By The Balls

You’re never ready for these sorts of things when they overtake you. It’s probably part of the reason they fester in your mind for so long afterwards.

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Why I Don’t Believe in the Patriarchy (But Still Consider Myself A Feminist).

Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory with tags , , , , , , , , , on February 16, 2021 by Jarrod Boyle

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The patriarchy is like Satan, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus. Sure, there’s some kind of cause and effect involved, but the figure itself is bought into being by those wanting to explain more subtle and complex phenomena, but are happy to settle for an easy answer with a face on it.

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