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Chelsea Wolfe: The Olympian Who Unintentionally United the World in Panic
ByDaveslocker 11 September 2025

Chelsea Wolfe and the Apocalypse That Never Arrived By Our Correspondent in a Bunker Somewhere Over the Pacific The name Chelsea Wolfe has been echoing across the globe this week, ricocheting from Berlin klezmer clubs to Filipino karaoke bars with all the subtlety of a drone strike. What began as a niche American musician posting…

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Global Inkblot: How J.K. Rowling Became the World’s Most Expensive Controversy
ByDaveslocker 10 September 2025

The Wand That Backfired: How J.K. Rowling Became a Global Rorschach Test There was a time, children of the dial-up age may recall, when the only controversy surrounding Joanne Kathleen Rowling was whether her publishers could squeeze the entire name “Philosopher’s” onto an American book spine. That quaint, sepia-toned epoch feels as distant as the…

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