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Marilyn Manson: Worst to Best Perhaps the most ephemeral music act in contemporary cultural history, Manson is better (and worse) than most fans and detractors realise.

Posting this for anybody who might not have seen it on Twitter:

My biggest and likely least appealing article yet. Very proud of this one for the sheer scope of it if nothing else.

My take on Marilyn Manson's storied career, from the dregs to the summit.

www.allpoetryisdumb.com/p/marilyn-ma...

"Holy shit did Michael Chandler cheat on his wife?????" I mean maybe? Why would that be sacreligious ground for a guy who badly spits out vague Twitter-branded stoicism about the virtues of combat, while simultaneously pulling out every outlandish dirty trick to make the fight as unfair as he can?

I feel like I'm in the minority for adoring Chandler's commitment to the "I'm a humble midwesterner with a dream who will also flatten your brain stem if I get half the chance" bit. Just a transparently nasty guy who's never let the mask fully drop.

He's a total shit but also, God love him.

Out With the Old West, in With the New Red Dead Redemption is slow and melancholic, a lamentation on the old ways refusing to die. It is perhaps more prescient than it ever knew.

Posted on Twitter a while back, but I'd like to use this site to focus more on my own writings and rekindle my love for MMA.

Please check out my writings if they hold any interest at all! Working on a new piece about RDR2 and the anti-western.
www.allpoetryisdumb.com/p/out-with-t...