Macaleb Hughes

PlayStation 2 enthusiast

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.

The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.

The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.

Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.

"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.

It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.

"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.

I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.

In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.

And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.

You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.

The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.

I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.

Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.

"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.

Discipline is a journey.

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

oh what have you done

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My genuine message to MAPPA

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This is amazing.

(via @NBA)

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DUNK OF THE YEAR?!!?! ANTHONY BLACK ON 4 GRIZZLIES 😳😳😳

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LeBron hugged the Portland arena staffer he knocked over in 2019 🥹💜

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LeBron knocks down 3 consecutive threes including one from the logo 🔥

(Via @LADEig)

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SHARA BULLET WITH THE SPINNIN BACKFIST KNOCKOUT #UFC308

OUR KING https://t.co/9FLzdU9eIS

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bc that Neanderthal did not deserve those ranked points more than I did

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“mommy, why is my name LeStephen Durbooker” https://t.co/bh1cOPHmuR

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LeGOLD 🥇

🇺🇸 #USABMNT

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WHAT IS A KILOMETER? 🦅🦅🦅

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FRAME. IT.

📸 Jamie Squire

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IT WAS ALWAYS GOLD.

The 🇺🇸 #USABMNT wins a 5th consecutive Olympic gold medal!

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Oui Win 🥇🇺🇸

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Olympic Legends.

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