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I launched a Substack as a place for sustained, deliberate writing.
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I’m now on Substack, serializing my memoir Your Dad Is a Dog—a darkly funny, brutally honest exploration of exile, identity, and survival. Start with “Between Worlds,” a glimpse into the life that shaped the book.
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I’m now on Medium, serializing my memoir Your Dad Is a Dog—a darkly funny, brutally honest exploration of exile, identity, and survival. Start with “Between Worlds,” a glimpse into the life that shaped the book. New fragments every Tuesday, in non-chronological order.
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A lot of success is just socially approved self-abandonment.
If your life feels numb, it’s probably working exactly as designed.
We call it “manifestation” because admitting that luck, power, and gatekeeping decide most lives would force us to stop blaming people for failing in a rigged game.
Just published the fifth excerpt from Your Dad Is a Dog.
“Twelve Saturdays of Terror” — A stutterer on a mountain, a Walkman salvation, a father’s ultimatum, and twelve Saturdays learning how to disappear without being missed.
Read it on Medium ↓
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Just published the fourth excerpt from Your Dad Is a Dog.
“How I Learned to Take What Wasn't Given” — a missing mother, a newborn brother, neon arcades, a father's ransom check, and the kid I became when the adults disappeared.
Read it on Medium ↓
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Just published the third excerpt from Your Dad Is a Dog.
“The Day My Father Tried to Kill the World” — Nylon nut-huggers, prayers for deliverance, a dying dog, and the crack of a shovel that split open my concept of manhood.
Read it on Medium ↓
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Just published the second excerpt from Your Dad Is a Dog.
“The Language of Silence” — a childhood stitched from broken syllables, absolution for being Iranian, a prayer dress turned ghost, and a father unleashing five thousand years of Persian wrath.
Read it on Medium ↓
medium.com/@kian.razi/t...
Just published the first excerpt from Your Dad Is a Dog.
“Born There, Made Here” — a homecoming dragged through shadow: a familiar stranger behind the wheel, an aging father, and the dead that refuse to lie still.
Read it on Medium ↓
medium.com/@kian.razi/b...
I’m now on Medium, serializing my memoir Your Dad Is a Dog—a darkly funny, brutally honest exploration of exile, identity, and survival. Start with “Between Worlds,” a glimpse into the life that shaped the book. New fragments every Tuesday, in non-chronological order.
medium.com/@kian.razi/b...
“We cannot move into a reality we cannot describe. As long as we let the establishment set the language agenda, we will be imprisoned in the tiny, pedestrian world of consumerism and schlocky values that the establishment has prepared for us. Instead, create your own roadshow.” - Terence McKenna
"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." - J.B.S. Haldane
In the final analysis, only one quote truly matters—may it serve as our guiding light for the years ahead:
Life is full of the unexpected and, often, the heartbreaking. It’s a cliché because it’s true: this world desperately needs more love, patience, and understanding. Chasing your dreams won’t heal the emptiness of living solely for others' recognition. Look within; all of humanity depends on it.
“You don’t replace rainforests with pastures. You don’t censor books. You don’t lean on people who make gender choices different from yours. The purpose of being human is to complexify reality even more. To hand on a more diverse, complicated, multiphasic universe to our children.” - Terence McKenna
I sometimes wonder what Beethoven would think if he knew his 9th played in a series of beeps when I shut off my dryer. Would he call it a brilliant commentary on civilization's decline, or would he shrug and say: “Well, at least someone is still using my music to signal the end of something.”?
In a world that often feels consumed by destruction, heartache, and the unjust triumphs of the worst among us, please hold onto this: you are loved. Your presence matters. Your optimism is a guiding light, essential to the moral fabric of humanity. Your heart is a quiet revolution.
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self" - Aldous Huxley
Writing a book involves tapping into the unconscious, laying bare the hidden parts of yourself, gaining self-awareness, and creating something greater than the sum of its parts.
Some guys treat fictional women with cosmic powers like a personal attack, while the real-world oppression of women gets less outrage than a casting decision. Proof that nothing threatens fragile masculinity like a woman who doesn’t need saving.
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Some guys treat fictional women with cosmic powers like a personal attack, while the real-world oppression of women gets less outrage than a casting decision. Proof that nothing threatens fragile masculinity like a woman who doesn’t need saving.
Some guys treat fictional women with cosmic powers like a personal attack, while the real-world oppression of women gets less outrage than a casting decision. Proof that nothing threatens fragile masculinity like a woman who doesn’t need saving.
Some guys treat fictional women with cosmic powers like a personal attack, while the real-world oppression of women gets less outrage than a casting decision. Proof that nothing threatens fragile masculinity like a woman who doesn’t need saving.
Exactly. Find someone who'll fight for human rights with the same spine and stamina these guys bring to crushing them. Matched atrocity with actual resolve.
America’s idea of "health" is like a patchwork quilt woven from exploitation, pollution, and a dash of corporate negligence, all tied together with the thread of historical amnesia.
Hegseth will finally have an excuse for his drinking problem: "Just keeping up with the market trends!"
