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When High Heels Make the Man

How drag performance helped me backhand demons and toxic masculinity

9 min readSep 11, 2022

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When High Heels Make the Man

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The Art of Loving

When Practicing How to Love Becomes the Work of a Lifetime

9 min readDec 17, 2023

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The Art of Loving

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My Groundhog Days

When being a homeowner also means being an apex predator

6 min readMar 26, 2023

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My Groundhog Days

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OK, Groomer!

When “Groomer” really means “He who smelt it, dealt it.”

7 min readMar 12, 2023

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OK, Groomer!

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My Problem with Sour Patch Kids

When American consumer health and safety parts ways with legality

7 min readFeb 26, 2023

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My Problem with Sour Patch Kids

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John Blesso

Does The Superbowl Still NEED Football?

Consumer complicity and how the ’85 Bears built the modern Superbowl

8 min readFeb 12, 2023

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Does The Superbowl Still NEED Football?

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Is Generation X Our Luckiest Generation?

Why we were best positioned for the rise of our Information Age

6 min readJan 29, 2023

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Is Generation X Our Luckiest Generation?

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Happy Martin(i) Luther King Day!

Celebrating MLK with less capitalistic forms of consumption

7 min readJan 15, 2023

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Happy Martin(i) Luther King Day!

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The Bright, Shining Promise of 2023

Before getting to the broad optimism I feel about 2023, I always find it odd, on New Year’s, whenever I’m excitedly asked the following:

6 min readJan 1, 2023

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The Bright, Shining Promise of 2023

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Gaslighting & the Gift of Letting Shit Go

Looking for an Uncommodified Gift this Holiday Season?

6 min readDec 18, 2022

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Gaslighting & the Gift of Letting Shit Go

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John Blesso

John Blesso

John Blesso is a writer, performer and builder fascinated by food, politics, and our collective refusal to stop doing crazy dumb shit. He lives in Beacon, NY.

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