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Harry Partch – The Outsider Who Refused To Come In

The Icarian Posted on June 23, 2026 by adminJune 23, 2026

Harry Partch – The Outsider Who Refused To Come In “This is my trinity: sound-magic, visual beauty, experience-ritual.” One of the great American myths is the cult of individualism. Individualism is sometimes twinned with the alleged American love of iconoclasts. … Continue reading →

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Previously

  • 50 Books I Read After Watching “The American Revolution” Documentary June 30, 2026
  • Harry Partch – The Outsider Who Refused To Come In June 23, 2026
  • America Getting Screwed By The Screwworm June 18, 2026
  • THE CARE & FEEDING OF YOU – FINAL TALE FROM THE NURSING HOME June 7, 2026
  • THAT NDE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE & ME June 7, 2026
  • Diné Culture YÁ’ÁT’ÉÉH, PEOPLE June 6, 2026
  • CHAPTER THREE. MEDICAL CRASH AND BURN June 6, 2026
  • Emotional Support Chickens, Theft! Cluck Yeah, A NURSING HOME TALE June 6, 2026
  • MATT & ANTHONY A NURSING HOME TALE June 6, 2026
  • MARIA & WHY, A NURSING HOME TALE June 6, 2026
  • THE NURSING HOME CONFESSIONAL, A NURSING HOME TALE June 6, 2026
  • STILL HERE! A NURSING HOME TALE June 5, 2026
  • Dying… Or Not. How People Die. Better Days June 5, 2026
  • Made It Through Long Covid-19! A Bed In Roswell June 5, 2026
  • Death On The Covid-19 Quarantine Ward, El Paso – 2020-08-25 June 4, 2026
  • COVID-19 In El Paso The Plague 08/02/20 June 4, 2026
  • Karen Strickholm: A Will To Live When Health Issues Take Everything June 4, 2026
  • Martin Robison Delany: An Extraordinary, Sometimes Contradictory, Figure May 24, 2026
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Books That Killed Their Authors May 24, 2026
  • The Dog: Childhood Trauma And Our Nation’s Government Sponsored Cruelty May 11, 2026
  • The Dubious Triumph Of Perception As Reality April 27, 2026
  • Honoré de Balzac On Coffee – A Terrible And Cruel Method February 19, 2026
  • Miller And Goebbels: A One-Sided Love Story October 29, 2025
  • The Coming Subprime Car Loan Collapse October 17, 2025
  • Martial Law Would End America As We Know It October 16, 2025

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Garcia.

8 August 2026 @ 4:05 am

What role do tech CEOs think they’ll have post-apocalypse? So you ride it out and survive, okay cool. As society is rebuilt do you seriously think the survivors are going to be like “well obviously you are all still trillionaires.”
https://archive.is/u9PmA

7 August 2026 @ 6:27 pm

Some real shot/chaser stuff with our numbers.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-jobs-july-2026-9.7299225

7 August 2026 @ 6:20 pm

Someone should ask DOJ why pages 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 24, 26, and 51 were pulled out from the court-sequestered material, re-processed, and spliced back in.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Steele-Spreadsheet.pdf

7 August 2026 @ 3:37 pm

The “no” emails from Scholastica have started rolling in, but those aren’t the ones I’m looking for. Do they not know?

7 August 2026 @ 12:32 pm

Social media and RSS feeds —> read it later —> personal podcast RSS feed
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7 August 2026 @ 1:29 am

Sometimes I think about doing a yes man type situation and just saying okay to every request that hits my inbox for a month. Or maybe a week. For a day. Just saying yes to everything for a day.

6 August 2026 @ 11:12 pm

Waiting for the folks that argued Trump was a response to the Obama presidency and HRC candidacy to make the case that the leftward tack of Democratic primaries is a response to MAGA policies. I guess it doesn’t work that way.

5 August 2026 @ 7:28 pm

For the last ten years or so I’ve felt like the markets are best understood as a bunch of people saying “well, I don’t think things are going to get *better* than this anytime soon.” All a bit like boasting about consumer spending with a asteroid visibly growing in the sky behind you.

4 August 2026 @ 9:26 pm

I’m not taking any carnivore diet people seriously if they don’t regularly pull over and eat roadkill.

4 August 2026 @ 9:16 pm

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