Tag: coronavirus

  • 32 Days: Infected

    32 Days: Infected

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    Erik St.Andrew Moe
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    Last night, I watched David Lynch’s Eraserhead for the first time. I woke up to the news that the President has the ‘rona. I feel like the latter news — and all of 2020 — makes a lot more sense as part of a Lynchian industrial wasteland dreamscape. I began a long essay about why I’d never…

  • Observations in the Time of Coronavirus: 5 p.m.

    Observations in the Time of Coronavirus: 5 p.m.

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    Erik St.Andrew Moe
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    At 5:20 p.m., my speakers come to life with music. A streaming radio station from Minneapolis, my hometown. It’s an alarm I set three or four years ago, timed for a brief segment of banter between the empathetic DJ and a charming curmudgeon of a newsman I’d known from Twitter. The newsman has since retired,…

  • Observations in the Time of Coronavirus: 2 p.m.

    Observations in the Time of Coronavirus: 2 p.m.

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    Erik St.Andrew Moe
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    Construction, Stillness and Caffeine Withdrawal 2 p.m. // The construction site outside my window begins to quiet down in the 2 p.m. hour (construction is considered “essential” under Mayor Bowser’s stay-at-home order). The crew shows up between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m., so anyone on site much later than 2:30 or 3 p.m. is likely due…