A cultural shakedown.

Down the Pipes is a weekly, semi-private newsletter for my mostly-coherent musings on media, culture, technology, business and society, mostly via links to other amazing writers, creators, journalists, and producers who are making great stuff. It’s also a lot of personal stories that are mostly true, or as much truth as I can muster.

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