David Stagg

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The Burning Ones
By David Stagg

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

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Books

A Year in Reading

Dec 13, 2025
I keep a running list of books I want to…
Movies

William Shakespeare’s Jacket

Dec 11, 2025
The jacket worn by Paul Mescal’s William Shakespeare alone should…
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‘The Horror Divide’

Oct 22, 2025
Earlier this month, Taylor Orth at YouGov wrote that “few…
Sports

The WNBA’s Lucky Star

Oct 15, 2025
(Clark) should be grateful she makes $16 million off the…
Thought

Recursive Simulations

Oct 3, 2025
DYNOMIGHT has some interesting thoughts about AI risk. He spells…
Movies

Bjork

Oct 1, 2025
I have been making my way through Lars von Trier’s…
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Long Form

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Run Fast, Play Heavy

“The day I stopped believing in God was the day that God didn’t answer my prayers that the frickin’ Looney Tunes squad would come out of my TV with Michael Jordan and be my friends. I did meet Charles Barkley once. Wait. Twice.”

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The Used

Bert McCracken Against The World

“Honestly, human beings don’t need to do anything. Every human being on this planet is completely different. Nothing anyone else says is going to work exactly like they think it works.”

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Korn

The Second Coming of Head

“The Word of God is living and active and it pushes us to meet the real God, and you’ve got to know the real God and what he’s like – now, in this day and age. He’s the same yesterday, today and forever.”

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Tombs

Anger, Alchemy, Gold

“When you’re 22 years old, everything’s intense. Nowadays, the writing just comes more from an attempt to understand than from anger.”

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My close personal friend David Kline, a member of Knoxville’s free-flowing, improvisational music scene, wrote and directed a piece about them called Out (The Out Series Documentary). The full work is available for free to watch on YouTube.

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