Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Ages Hence

The parody of small-town Christmas movies in Taylor Swift’s “’tis the damn season” (2020)

Two perspectives on a dress: Greg Brown’s “If I Had Known” (1990) and Taylor Swift’s “Dress” (2017)

How the politics of scapegoating undermines the politics of responsibility

“Never Grow Up” (Taylor Swift, 2010) and “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up” (Tom Waits, 1992)

Recent shenanigans by the Republicans in the United States House of Representatives