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  • 2 days ago | johnpaulbrammer.substack.com | John Paul Brammer

    Your paid support makes writing like this possible. Thank you so much. May 2025: It will be June in a week. I’m sitting on a fully booked Amtrak from Manhattan to D.C. for an old friend’s wedding. My recently purchased suit is in a bag over my head. I’m surrounded by people dealing the sort of damage to one another typical on mass transit. (“I apologize,” a woman’s raspy voice says behind me to the passenger next to her, “for the way I asked you to move over earlier. I’m headed to a funeral.

  • 1 week ago | johnpaulbrammer.substack.com | John Paul Brammer

    Your paid support makes writing like this possible. Thank you so much. Two months ago, I was pulled aside for “additional screening” in the Detroit Metropolitan Airport. I was making a connecting flight on my way back to New York after some fifty days in Mexico. I’d successfully cleared passport check and retrieved my luggage when I felt the tractor beam of authority pulling me from the herd. I kept my eyes down and quickened my pace, but this was in vain.

  • 1 month ago | johnpaulbrammer.substack.com | John Paul Brammer

    Your paid support makes creative endeavors like this possible. Netflix doesn’t allow screenshots, so I took some pictures with my phone. I think it adds a little something. Thank you for reading!The bulk of Shakespeare’s works can be filed under two categories. There are comedies, which end in weddings, and there are tragedies, which end in funerals.

  • 1 month ago | johnpaulbrammer.substack.com | John Paul Brammer

    Your paid support makes creative projects like these possible. Thank you. It happens on occasion that even a recluse such as myself ends up in the predicament of having to do an “icebreaker.” In fact, it comes up more often than I’d like. This is because, as a globetrotting homosexual with body dysmorphia, I regularly find myself in boutique fitness classes in cities where I don’t live.

  • 2 months ago | johnpaulbrammer.substack.com | John Paul Brammer

    ¡Hola Papi! is the preeminent deranged advice column from writer and author John Paul Brammer. Support this column by sharing it and subscribing below, or by upgrading to a paid subscription for access to more columns. Send Papi a letter at [email protected]¡Hola Papi!This isn’t going to be a unique question. I imagine it’s one millions of people wake up with every morning these days.

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