There are some things you can set your watch to: Swiss trains, Johnny Unitas’ haircut, and my undying love of Last.fm. Why bring this up now? Well, December is in full swing and that means one thing: Spotify Wrapped season. Actually, that’s a baldfaced lie. Jesus Month™ is famous for one other thing — yeah, you guessed it — me babbling on and on about Last.fm. Here’s my pitch. If you have any interest in Spotify Wrapped, you should use Last.

My calendar might say Monday March 4, but I’m pretty sure we’re barrelling toward Friday the 13th of Smarch, with all the lousy weather and bad luck that implies. No one knows exactly when Smarch, the 13th month of the year according to Springfield Elementary School’s misprinted calendars, falls, but I believe you can feel it in your heart. My heart tel… ncG1vNJzZmiklai5qrHKnqmnZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8uorKyxXai6or7CoWSwnZGptaa%2B

I was going to write about Wu-Tang Clan’s “Shame on a Nigga” (who tried to run game…) when as if by divine intervention I heard Stevie Wonder’s “Love’s in Need of Love Today” lucid and precise in my mind like a childhood memory straining for influence over a scorned over-serious thought pattern. It could be humiliating, to be trapped between rage, confusion and unyielding love, to feel all of these emotions toward the very same moment in history which is the present yearning toward its future self hoping to reach her—but what if we let ourselves be this vulnerable?

Hello, reader. It’s me, Jeremy. In honor of Spooky Season, today’s issue comes to you from a dear friend of mine, Garon Bailey! Garon is a creative soul who is passionate about DIY filmmaking, which means he has a fondness for low-budget films. He is also a big horror movie junkie, which means he’s seen a lot of wonderful spooky schlock. He is also an avid animal lover who is particularly endeared toward on-screen critters serving as unwilling “antagonists.

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