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51 minutes

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Sep 13, 2023

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A reading of Oscar Wilde's unabridged DE PROFUNDIS in its entirety. All five and a half hours only for Patrons: patreon.com/imsopopular

(ISP S4.E07)

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Sep 13, 2023

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I’M SO POPULAR is an audio program from the end of the world by American drag queen in Japan, Zach Langley Chi Chi. Scream into the abyss, find another way: discussing with anyone and everyone homosexual beauty, art, culture, Madonna, Marxism, J-Pop, James Joyce, drag, death, all of it, none of it. What can be salvaged.

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DE PROFUNDIS (preview)

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