Life’s lemons into rich, dark chocolate. <br/><br/><a href="https://lowerblackpain.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">lowerblackpain.substack.com</a>
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Life’s lemons into rich, dark chocolate. <br/><br/><a href="https://lowerblackpain.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">lowerblackpain.substack.com</a>
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July 2, 2026
Kitsch of July.
<p></p><p>We live in a Brooklyn apartment; no basement or attic, so we have to rent a storage unit in one of those huge warehouses that used to be a factory for something. What’s stored there is a point of mild contention - things we thought we might need someday before we actually got to Someday, memorabilia of moments we’ve already forgotten, and tons of books, cds, tapes and tools that have since been replaced by weightless electronic versions.</p><p>But deep within the melee are the holiday decorations: 12 sturdy plastic boxes of Christmas, 9 of Halloween, 5 of Easter, 2 with combined elements of Valentine’s, Mardi Gras, and St. Patricks, and only 1 for The Fourth of July.</p><p>Christmas and Yule are all about lights. Tons of them. We have curated the colors somewhat and can no longer tolerate multiple blinkity strings going at the same time, but there are still enough that the room actually heats up a few degrees when we turn them all on.</p><p>Halloween is EVERYTHING. Early on we discovered that some stores put Halloween items on super-close-out-sale to make swift way for Christmas decorations – if we went at just the right time we could clean up for the next year. This strategy has enabled us to surround ourselves each October with an ever expanding dynamic gallery of curiosities - pumpkin candles and plush screeching cats and REAL science lab equipment and teeny-tiny pirate skeletons and a talking (plastic) crystal ball and strings of orange lights.</p><p>Easter is mostly plush rabbits. We’ve only bought one each year, but had the audacity to know one other for over three decades, so there are now (un-ironically) quite a LOT of bunnies. In addition, it is now tradition to place one fresh unopened box of yellow Marshmallow Peeps™ in the center of the fireplace mantel, with our light-up Peeps™ garland directly below it.</p><p>Valentine’s is vintage greeting cards and red lights; Mardi Gras is beads and green, purple, and gold lights, and St. Patrick’s is music - and green lights. </p><p>Fourth of July is all about fireworks and hot dogs, and we can’t decorate the apartment with either of those. I mean, we shouldn’t decorate the apartment with hot dogs: of course we COULD; that’s a keen example of the very freedoms the holiday represents.</p><p>Nevertheless, instead of annual decorations of highly processed meats, plastic flags, and strings of red white and blue lights, I have put together over the years a small collection various oddities which at some point a retailer decided were “patriotic” and “desirable for purchase by a consumer”. In most cases, alignment with either or both of these categories was far from achieved, but they warm my heart with their creative enthusiasm.</p><p>My absolute favorite Fourth of July item used to be our plastic Jell-O™ mold in the shape of the continental US, complete with little state lines. It is 14 inches wide and three and a half inches deep, requiring four boxes of Jell-O™ to fill. We have never attempted to use this item for its intended purpose because none of us are keen to consume twelve full cups of Jell-O™, even in the heat of the summer. </p><p>Also, the idea of a wobbly USA kind of melting in the heat is a bit matchy-matchy with Right Now - feels more like a piece from the Whitney Biennial. In any case, last weekend it was surpassed by what I honestly consider to be the most fascinating and intriguing representation of national identity I have ever encountered:</p><p>Two ceramic men, each holding one end of an unfinished cord on which hangs a three letter banner - U, S, and A. The rightmost figure appears of European descent, the other from the African Diaspora. One sports a hat of stars, the other, stripes. </p><p>Wow, right? What a comment on the true nature of the USA - supported by tension and distance, interdependence on the existence of one another, yet made of a deep inherent fragility that discourages us from coming together. Wow. I told this to my wife, who listened dubiously, but pointed out that while everything I said was true, it was severely undercut by the fact that the figures were actually gnomes. </p><p>Y’know, like garden gnomes. </p><p>Tiny patriotic garden gnomes.</p><p>And one is black. </p><p>It’s the best 4th of July thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life. It was made in China. Fantastic. No notes. It makes zero sense and yet I cannot look away, because somebody said “let’s take that gnome machine we use to make December stuff and make some summer cash.” Innovation. Capitalism. MOXIE. That, is America right there. </p><p>My wife wants the cats to find them. </p><p>One would think you could classify such an item as “Americana”. </p><p>Nope. Please do not investigate that term, as even the most perfunctory online search generates a gallery of “African American Collectibles” of a specific sort that ironically has NOTHING AT ALL to do with the word freedom, save to emphasize the overall importance of the concept.</p><p>That is exactly the kind of imagery my new object <strong>negates</strong> - its unintentional whimsy stands firmly against crass misrepresentation, allowing my wild imagination to impose all kinds of more positive possible meanings.</p><p>The most striking is perhaps an homage to the 1958 film “The Defiant Ones”, where Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis portray two escaped convicts on the run in the segregated South - connected by a chain they cannot break, forced to cooperate in order to move forward…</p><p>…except, you know, they’re gnomes.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://lowerblackpain.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">lowerblackpain.substack.com</a>
June 25, 2026
Good Luck, And.
<p>Commencement speeches are engineered to inspire those beginning a new phase of life. They are meant to be epic, a benediction offering direction, courage and motivation, an address to the fresh battalion, a manifesto unique to a specific group of people and moment in time.</p><p> I’ve been watching a lot of them online recently: movie stars, scientists and comedians dressed in colorful and entirely unearned robes and mortarboards, reading words most likely written by roomfuls of America’s most lauded professionals. O, how the young near-graduates laugh!</p><p>About three quarters of the way through, these speeches always turn serious, offering heartfelt pleas to “always be yourselves” or “don’t let the b******s get you down” before rising to an inspirational and lightly tearful summit. </p><p>We get one these speeches the end of high school, maybe a few more if we choose to go to college or graduate school, but that’s it. We deserve more of these. They are admittedly wasted on anxious young people mere minutes away from the freedom to not follow anyone’s advice.</p><p>That being said, I did not remember who spoke at my own graduation. I had to look it up. </p><p>It was <strong>Stephen J. Gould, zoologist</strong>, a very accomplished Harvard professor who wrote numerous books concerning evolution, stood against cultural oppression, spoke five different languages and loved baseball, books and light opera. A leader in science and history, the Library of Congress described him as “a living legend”. </p><p>I do not remember a single word he said at that ceremony. </p><p>I also did not remember the then-president of the university’s closing speech (I found a quote online from the school newspaper):</p><p>“…our experiment in creating a republic of virtue passes to your hands…the civic ideal in America is your conception to grapple with, for better or worse.”</p><p>Well, I should have paid more attention to <strong>that</strong>. Though now it seems a bit of a lazy hand-off, a toss of the national car keys with a tepid “…it only takes premium gas and there isn’t a spare tire…but, y’know, <strong>good luck with it</strong>.” </p><p>Lest you now believe I am just a fanboy of ceremonial oratory, I must explain that what I’ve sought from these speeches was comforting, useful advice from people older than me, who were “there before me”, in the style of Yoda, or Uncle Ben, or Mr. Miyagi, or any role played by Morgan Freeman.</p><p>Problem 1 - there are so many <strong>fewer</strong> people ‘older than me’ now. It’s hard to find anyone on my subway car who might have seen “<strong>Gilligan’s Island”</strong>.</p><p>Problem 2 - it’s impossible to have been HERE before me because NOBODY has been HERE before. This time and space is <strong>bananas</strong>. We live in a combination of Wonderland, The Matrix, and wherever Milo’s car went when he entered The Phantom Tollbooth. </p><p>At school, I had been carefully prepped to take on the world that existed at that time - at the end of my graduation ceremony I threw a hat in the air and stepped bravely into a whirlwind of what I believed to be predictable instability. </p><p>What <strong>possible</strong> advice could anyone have offered on that day that would have successfully charted a course through the internet and smart phones? It would be petty to blame the hyper-genius zoologist, who very likely said something super useful like, “Evolve!”… but I wasn’t paying attention.</p><p>Now I’m Morgan Freeman. I’m the old person. In a mentor role I speak calmly to expectant faces who look to me for virtual pins to drop in the map app on their metaphorical life-phones: direction, paths through the chaos. </p><p>I do not have a room filled with WGA writers, so “<strong>don’t look down”</strong> is the best I’ve got. Back when everyone was taller than me, I used to look up more than I looked down - classroom blackboards, movie screens at the multiplex, the sky outside. I held the books I read in front of my uplifted head, never down at my belly. </p><p>And I didn’t just look up - I looked <strong>out</strong>, away from myself, navigating the immediate challenges of physical space rather than the potential dreads of an endless digital universe. Don’t look down. No matter what your life brings, meet it eye to eye. Live where you are. </p><p>Ok, well, even back then I didn’t pay attention <strong>all</strong> the time, but at least my head was filled with my own memories and experiences. For instance, once I was stranded on a desert island with a movie star, a professor, and this girl named Mary Ann…</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://lowerblackpain.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">lowerblackpain.substack.com</a>
June 18, 2026
The Signal.
<p>They were free</p><p>but did not know</p><p>But they were always free</p><p>until somebody kidnapped them</p><p>transported them by sea</p><p>and took their language, names and history</p><p>and held them in captivity</p><p>until December 1865 when that was legally</p><p>abolished and prohibited</p><p>across the USA</p><p></p><p>good news for all</p><p>law of the land</p><p>peace in our time</p><p>all bonds released</p><p>new national reality</p><p>no human would be property</p><p></p><p>but they did not know</p><p>because in some remote location</p><p>on a profitable plantation</p><p>someone heard this news and</p><p>simply did not pass it on.</p><p>a legislative victory which now seemed doomed to fail</p><p>in areas where words sat stagnant like unopened mail</p><p></p><p>so they were free,</p><p>but did not know</p><p>for knowing was the key</p><p>to unlock rusty shackles of the past two centuries</p><p></p><p>but stories spread</p><p>word gets around</p><p>and through the sonic underground</p><p>those last to hear were finally found</p><p></p><p>good news for ALL</p><p>LAW of the land</p><p>ALL BONDS RELEASED</p><p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://lowerblackpain.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">lowerblackpain.substack.com</a>
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