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Kottke Wrapped 2025

Spotify really started something, didn’t they? Everyone has a “Wrapped” this year; I even got an email one from the cruise line on which I took a trip this summer. Like, “Congratulations! You went on {1} cruise for {7} days!” — and then nothing else. Two stats. So I thought for

Balthazar, 1997

"The noise between the world in which we had known each other and the world I occupied now went silent, or maybe only hushed."