Spokes in the Empire Wheel

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My Top Songs of 2025: An Exercise in Micro-Streaming
Only one of my artists cracks 1M monthly listeners on Spotify--and maybe that's how I like it.
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Interview with a Cultural Vampire
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Our Lemonade Culture
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Rancholand, pt. 3
Take a trip on the Los Angeles River in late spring with Fletcher and his ragtag crew.
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Rancholand, pt. 2
Fletcher's got to buy time for an escape across the river. He'll find no quarter in Los Angeles, where he broke the peace.
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Spokes in the Empire Wheel
Spokes in the Empire Wheel
Join me as I examine the forces shaping our fractured age — power, memory, technology, trade, war, culture, and the hidden systems that bind them together.
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