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. kianrazi.substack.com/p/between-wo...

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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. medium.com/@kian.razi/b...

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 ↓ medium.com/@kian.razi/t...

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 ↓ medium.com/@kian.razi/h...

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 ↓ medium.com/@kian.razi/t...

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. www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...

"Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas." - Bill Hicks Don’t let the regime silence the individual. In times of change, the collective can overshadow personal freedom, but our individuality drives progress, creativity, and the courage to challenge what's wrong.

Trusk (noun): A bloated, megalomaniacal wrecking ball of greed and delusion—part washed-up demagogue, part insufferable techbro—hell-bent on obliterating democracy under the guise of genius. See also: authoritarian cosplay, unchecked narcissism, and the death of accountability.

Piece of shit. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

As an immigrant, I always dreamed of making it in America. I just didn’t realize step one was coming back from the dead to prove I exist. Land of opportunity, y'all! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The Constitution’s just a prop, and Trump knows how to work a stage. Final act? Democracy, disappearing without applause. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

No need for inspections—truth, food, or anything else under Trump. Negligence was the plan all along. Bon appétit, America! www.thedailybeast.com/fda-plans-to...

Next: outsourcing audits to Twitter polls. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

Texas: where government overreach is only a problem when it interferes with profits. Everything’s bigger here, even the hypocrisy! www.texastribune.org/2025/04/18/T...

In other stellar Texas news, Republicans can’t honor a woman who fought for public health, but they’re all in for any empty political stunt that fits their agenda. I smell a new Netflix hit: "Where Women’s Achievements Are Optional,” starring this douchebag. www.texastribune.org/2025/04/17/t...

As a non-native Texan, I'm so proud to say that my adopted state, where science is optional and conspiracy theories are a lifestyle, is now hosting a measles revival! Yeeehawww! RFK Jr. must be as thrilled as I am that his brand of delusion is thriving. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/18/t...

Imagine losing a case so empty that even a stacked judiciary can't pretend it has a pulse. It must be surreal watching your own handpicked judges gag on the script you scribbled in crayon. reason.com/2025/04/17/f...

Um, if Stephen Miller’s meltdown shocks you, it’s a sign you’ve been sleepwalking through the moral rot you helped curate. www.rawstory.com/stephen-mill...

“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

The video of the Tufts student’s arrest is a terrifying glimpse into what happens when the state operates in secrecy. Masked and unidentifiable, these "authorities" are erasing the law. This is how the line between government and shadow force blurs beyond recognition. youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

Gabbard’s claim that Signal comes "pre-installed" on government devices is a bold move if you’re trying to make the case that the real security threat is coming from inside the house. The only thing more compromised than security is the definition of “secure.” www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard, and Pete Hegseth just got added to everyone's spam folder. If I were them, I’d start answering calls from "Unknown" like it’s the Kremlin, and wonder if my inbox is now the preferred hangout for cybercriminals. www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Brazil’s Supreme Court says Bolsonaro must stand trial for an alleged coup attempt, while in the U.S., Trump gets a free pass. Some countries have the guts to hold leaders accountable, while others prefer to let democracy play a game of, ahem, Russian roulette. www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...

Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard, and Pete Hegseth just got added to everyone's spam folder. If I were them, I’d start answering calls from "Unknown" like it’s the Kremlin, and wonder if my inbox is now the preferred hangout for cybercriminals. www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Gabbard’s claim that Signal comes "pre-installed" on government devices is a bold move if you’re trying to make the case that the real security threat is coming from inside the house. The only thing more compromised than security is the definition of “secure.” www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

The video of the Tufts student’s arrest is a terrifying glimpse into what happens when the state operates in secrecy. Masked and unidentifiable, these "authorities" are erasing the law. This is how the line between government and shadow force blurs beyond recognition. youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

“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

"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." - J.B.S. Haldane

“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

Brazil’s Supreme Court says Bolsonaro must stand trial for an alleged coup attempt, while in the U.S., Trump gets a free pass. Some countries have the guts to hold leaders accountable, while others prefer to let democracy play a game of, ahem, Russian roulette. www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...

American democracy is a decaying beast, consuming everything in its path, leaving nothing but ash and hollow promises. I’d rather be high and held in the gentle embrace of The Goddess.

“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

Americans must confront the questions we’ve long avoided: What are we, really? Who have we become in the wreckage of our own making? Are we still capable of goodness, or have we traded it for something far less? If we can’t answer these honestly, we may find there’s nothing left of us to salvage.