Category: OIAAT
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Your Call Is Important to Us
Last winter I spent fifty-one minutes on the phone with an insurance company, and I would like those minutes back, although I understand the request will be routed to a department that does not exist. Forty-three of the fifty-one were hold. The other eight were spent talking to a man named, he said, Brandon, who…
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Never Mind, I Changed It
In the mid-nineties I had a college course on macroeconomics that required me to read a small book of about two hundred and thirty pages, a task I dispatched with the enthusiasm that’s reserved only for useful things like cleaning behind a fridge. What I did instead, with what now strikes me as faintly ridiculous…
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Shumatsu Papa
I went for a walk last Sunday afternoon and witnessed a man in a driveway trying to summon his Hyundai Ioniq out of his garage with an app. His wife and son were on the lawn, hugging each other and laughing at him with the specific giddy energy reserved for moments when a piece of…
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1.618 (Approximately)
Here is a secret about photographs. The most important tool in a photographer’s kit is not the camera. It is the crop. I have taken a great many photographs in my life, and I am fairly certain I have made more crops than clicks. The photograph arrives first. The decision comes later. You drag the…
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The Jar Under the Apple Tree
The hook was at the exact height of the average adult human skull, which is the kind of thing you only notice once. Many years ago, I worked in an office in a downtown I will not name, in a building whose interior architectural decisions had been made by people who I can only assume…
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