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Jun 1, 2023Liked by Spencer Orenstein Lequerica

This was a lot of fun! Excellently curated MixTape!

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Thank you! I’m glad you liked it and hopefully found some new writers to add to the reading rotation.

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Jun 1, 2023Liked by Spencer Orenstein Lequerica

I did, thank you!

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Jun 2, 2023Liked by Spencer Orenstein Lequerica

Spencer, you continue to amaze me! The way you combine music and writing, weaving in your past and present life, is masterful!

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Thanks, Kim! This one was easy to write with such a wonderful inspiration to dedicate the mix to.

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Jun 1, 2023Liked by Spencer Orenstein Lequerica

Love the idea of connecting songs to the writing - such a great concept! Thanks so much for including me in this gorgeous collection. Have so many more tabs open now to catch up with the rest! Love live the Teenage Dirtbags in all of us. (Blasting out Alkaline Trio as I type!) 🤘🏼💘

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Your essay was the perfect way to kick off the mixtape! And yes, too many tabs and saved posts, such is the gift and curse of Substack. I've really stepped up my embrace of the Teenage Dirtbag in the last couple of years. The musical improv team I perform with did a pop-punk one off show and I just went to see Blink-182 in concert about a week ago.

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Jun 2, 2023Liked by Spencer Orenstein Lequerica

The first four paragraph's of Helena Fitzgerald's "the adults in the room" are as good as you've described.

This was a cool comment you shared on it, as well!

"In this particular moment, my greatest hope in life is that, by some stroke of absurd luck, a group of authors here on Substack become a new Lost Generation and that 100 years from now this essay is taught in a university classroom with the same mixture of veneration and envy that someone in some classroom today has teaching The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas."

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Jun 2, 2023·edited Jun 2, 2023Author

I was so drawn into the rest of the essay with the craftsmanship of those paragraphs. Just beautiful writing. And thanks for the shoutout on the comment. I do think there’s an amazing ecosystem of writing here that I hope is preserved and studied in the future.

And thanks so much for including this Substack as a way to discover more wonderful stuff. It is a big part of why I started writing here.

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Jun 2, 2023·edited Jun 2, 2023Liked by Spencer Orenstein Lequerica

"I do think there’s an amazing ecosystem of writing here that I hope is preserved and studied in the future." D'accord!!

BTW, if it ever fits with any of your future MixTape playlist items, there's a song by another Substack author, Tift Merritt, who also just happens to be a Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter. It's called ... yes ... "Mixtape."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8j0TuyiA5w

Here's her Substack page:

https://substack.com/@tiftmerritt

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Well that’s an awesome suggestion! Thanks!

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Jun 2, 2023·edited Jun 2, 2023Liked by Spencer Orenstein Lequerica

Semi-related, I've recommended The Brown Barge, among several "ways to discover more wonderful stuff," in this section of my blog's About page ...

https://fragmentsintime.substack.com/about#§even-more-blogsnewsletters-to-explore

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Jun 1, 2023Liked by Spencer Orenstein Lequerica

These mixtapes are so darn cool! I’m excited to dig into them. I especially appreciate the time to experience and I leveraged that in the last one more than I expected to

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Thanks, Taegan! Always appreciate your support. It’s fun to put these together, to find the themes, move the tracks around and see how they flow, to pick the best musical accompaniment. Hopefully above all it’s introducing folks to some new Substacks to follow!

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Jun 1, 2023Liked by Spencer Orenstein Lequerica

That Haem made your neck tingle, then have to go for a long walk, I am very glad.

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Thank you for writing something that made me get out of my head and into the world!

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Jun 1, 2023Liked by Spencer Orenstein Lequerica

This is literally my mission plan for any of my public offerings. Greetings from wild Dorset.

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I'm glad I found my way to your writing! And I return the greetings from Washington, D.C., which is not exactly wild, but which does have a small slice of wild called Rock Creek Park, which is where I took my wooded walk.

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