Everything Is Symbolic: The 1989 Diaries

Ep 3: Everything Bad About High School, In One Room

Existential dread, rejection, prom.

Ep 2: The Cursed Trip

California is supposed to be warm, glamorous, and full of possibility. Instead, there’s an aunt who talks in loops, a Hare Krishna buffet, a sitcom taping with no laughter, a big fight, and a bargain over a necklace. The trip keeps tilting toward the cursed—but the diary continues.

Ep 1: Is God Private Property?

Wisconsin, 1989. An 18-year-old takes inventory of small-town life: a stolen camera, a brother drunk in the kitchen, parents circling the same fight, and the quiet suspicion that God might be private property. The grotto waits, the bookstore can't read, the people avert their eyes, and the diary keeps its own sharp, patient record.