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C.S. Mee's avatar

Please link the viscerally real, raw, and uncensored non-fiction Substack about the time (you) abandoned (your) family for a year to get (your) philosophy doctorate and lived (your) masculine fantasies to the fullest, featuring: drugs, fucking, swears, violence, and a lot of self-loathing. Thanks!

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Clancy Steadwell's avatar

coming soon

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

After reading only the first two paragraphs, I have to say that I disagree so fundementally with this, that it is all so rotten at the core, that I feel like you dont even understand the idea to begin with let alone how to enumerate and combobulate it. honestly dude, delete this.

I am writing this as a friend - here for you but wtf man.

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Clancy Steadwell's avatar

good thing the first two paragraphs are the only two meant to be read

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Jeanne S's avatar

Pure speculation! You are (choose one) a. A racist b. A nazi c. A misogynist d. All of the above. Also you forgot the Ditka stash- evil incarnate.

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Ray Downs's avatar

“Ditka Stash” would be a really cool name for just about anything

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Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

I am not sure of what I just read but I … like it?

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Clancy Steadwell's avatar

i think you’re experiencing what most think piece readers on Substack experience

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

ditto

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Carly Bush's avatar

Hit the nail on the head with this one.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Oh Good Grief, Clancy! Overload, overload! However, this just cracked me up: "...weather was weathered, a penis was erected, a tithe was quarried, a frittata went unfettered, a cornucopia of corneas went quartered and a clam—claiming consciousness—said, “I am!” An unfettered frittata! Love that. Yes, the manner in which you've communicated your thoughts HAS left an impression on me that I simply can’t help sharing. I don't know how to respond to this post, so I am sticking with your fine fiction.

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Clancy Steadwell's avatar

thanks sharron! hahah i liked that bit too. just wanted to play substack philosopher for a day that just happened to be april 1st. see you next week for more fiction

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Ken Beyer's avatar

I’m here for the intervention…will there be pastry hearts?

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Clancy Steadwell's avatar

we will have coffee

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Add a couple of jelly donuts and I am in.

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Vanechka's avatar

can we have a summary of this?

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Clancy Steadwell's avatar

think

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

ha ha ha!

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Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

someone cliffnotes this for me

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Diana  Goniou's avatar

Your very fictional way of attempting non-fiction is hilarious. There might be more figurative language, metaphor and subtext here than in your fiction.

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Clancy Steadwell's avatar

haha thanks diana! oh no, that is a scary thought... I need to step up my fiction game!

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Parker McCoy's avatar

Blue Blood Morality- Selleck-stache. LOL. Some nice musings here, Clancy.

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Clancy Steadwell's avatar

thanks Parker. as you can see, I am an accredited philosophical authority

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Michael Arturo's avatar

Great stuff, Clancy. It got me thinking.

Let me ask you something, if I may:

Why are we condemned—yes, condemned—to a ceaseless loop of soft rock hits, circa 1973, every time we try to buy toothpaste or bananas?

Carol King’s “It’s Too Late, Baby” warbles from the ceiling tiles like a ghost with perfect pitch. Bread, Seals & Crofts, the Eagles at their most tranquilized. It’s always there, like fluoride in the water—inaudible until you notice it, and then it’s all you notice.

Have we not surrendered enough of our autonomy? Must we also be lulled into passive consumption by ballads about heartbreaks no one remembers having?

This isn’t nostalgia. This is anesthetic.

It’s sonic wallpaper for a culture afraid of silence—afraid that if we turned off the radio, we might hear the hum of our own despair. And so we nod along as we pick out romaine lettuce, soundtracked by the musical equivalent of Novocain.

There’s no irony left in it. No edge. Just that slow, gentle smothering.

Soft rock: the Muzak of late-stage capitalism.

And the most sinister part?

We don’t even notice anymore.

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Clancy Steadwell's avatar

brilliant

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Sam Kahn's avatar

This is awesome. Bravo!

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Clancy Steadwell's avatar

thanks Sam--all in good fun. much respect for many non-fiction philosophizers.

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Gina CM's avatar

What is today’s date?

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Clancy Steadwell's avatar

april 1 why

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Gina CM's avatar

Seems like an auspicious day to switch from fiction to non! :D

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Clancy Steadwell's avatar

hmm

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Helen Grover's avatar

I love this so much

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Clancy Steadwell's avatar

and it loves you

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Helen Grover's avatar

I maybe loved it too much can you forgive me for taking inspiration?

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Clancy Steadwell's avatar

i’m honored

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Adam Nathan's avatar

You got a little crazy here, but I like it. 😀

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Clancy Steadwell's avatar

i mean I am a little crazy! thanks adam!

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Amber Trimble's avatar

It's as if you've encountered the people here with BPD.

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