Chris Ritter
@chrisrittr
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writer + photographer from Lexington, VA
Joined July 2020
A little while ago I wrote an essay about @NoahKahan, winter, and some things I’ve learned from my northern friends — incredibly excited to say that essay is out in the world now via the lovely northerners at @cogwbur🌞 give it a read! stay warm!
wbur.org
If you don’t get much time with the sun, you’d better take advantage of every moment you get, writes Chris Ritter.
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Northern lights < southern lights (waffle house + cook out + the occasional buc-ees)
No northern lights for me…maybe I’ll hit the pen and stare at the southern lights for a while
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The devastation in our region is unfathomable. People are suffering and in desperate need. Please donate what you can to these mutual aid efforts across the region. A 🧵:
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It's the midwest! It's campfire! It's the sufjan dance musical and I wrote about it and interviewed the people who made it! Ahhhhh!
cntraveler.com
The show's choreographer and playwright sit down with us to chat about gathering around the campfire, folklore, and more.
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As they should
Every man at the Clairo tour has to recite Harbor at the door for entry
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For my nerds, I wrote about our choir director in chief for @cogwbur
wbur.org
Jacob Collier's music isn't easy to understand, writes Chris Ritter. But to be nerdy isn’t so much to know things as it is to be excited about the possibilities that lie behind the things you don’t...
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We are rapidly normalizing meeting peaceful assembly with police force on college campuses. This is a genie that will not go easily back into the bottle. The slope couldn’t be slipperier. We are in a brave new world in higher ed, and anyone who doesn’t see it is delusional.
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Today in @thenation we have a piece by Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl in Gaza, that has floored me every time I've read it. It's about what happened when an Israeli bulldozer came to destroy the house she was staying in, and you must, must, must read it.
thenation.com
The extraordinary story of a 14-year-old, her mother, and what happened when the Israeli military came to destroy their house.
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Reminder Nazis with tiki torches chanting "Jews will not replace us" on campus in Charlottesville weren't touched and law enforcement presence was sparse.
It’s chaos now. DPS riot troopers forcefully dispersing protesters, making contact, at least one arrest
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WATCH: @EmoryUniversity Econ Professor @CarolineFohlin saw a protester on campus being violently arrested, and asked the police "What are you doing?" — then was violently thrown to the ground and arrested herself. Sickening. https://t.co/N1m2nvuWVm
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Bassist Laura Lee Ochoa and drummer DJ Johnson sit down with us to talk Texas, global music, and recording in a hill country barn.
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I uh.. interviewed khruangbin? Life is a dream. My first thing for @CNTraveler
cntraveler.com
Bassist Laura Lee Ochoa and drummer DJ Johnson sit down with us to talk Texas, global music, and recording in a hill country barn.
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This one's really special. I owe truly so much to the people who surf in this place, and to tell the stories of some of them — from my time there and beyond — is a privilege beyond words. Thrilled I got to do that here for the bowdoin mag. Will never stop thanking you all🌊
In his story about Bowdoin surfers over generations, Chris Ritter ’21 describes what happens in the cold Maine waters: a sense of being both a part of and apart from the world, in a moving meditation built on taking, receiving, and riding the waves.
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If theres one thing about me its that I will always do these and I will always cheat
No cheating - your Quietus style Bakers Dozen. 13 albums (off the top of your head) to know you by. Not looking for a perfect list, looking for a list that you instantly regret posting because you then remember something else.
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Hi Professor! Current Harvard Law student here & Palestinian. Hate to take the bait, but I do want to breakdown why this article is inaccurate & intellectually dishonest. Thread:
I tried to write in a nuanced way about the new antisemitism.
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I wrote about Pitchfork, as a reader, freelancer, and colleague
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For all its chaotic choices, the site reshaped how we think about music.
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Anywho, freelancing has been a ride so far. Thank you to my very cool friends who edit my very bad drafts, to the 0.001% of editors who respond to me, and to any of you who read a thing I wrote. The triumphs, the defeats, the epic highs and lows — it was all worth it:)
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Full disclosure though Lex was robbed and in 2024 I will be rigging this election
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