<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[AURORA BRIDGE: Extra]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the road]]></description><link>https://aurorabridge.substack.com/s/americaa-and-seattle</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lTZU!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25826bd7-eac7-41b4-8e53-2402cece7f6c_176x176.png</url><title>AURORA BRIDGE: Extra</title><link>https://aurorabridge.substack.com/s/americaa-and-seattle</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:12:55 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://aurorabridge.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Tad Kosewicz]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[aurorabridge@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[aurorabridge@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Tad Kosewicz]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Tad Kosewicz]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[aurorabridge@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[aurorabridge@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Tad Kosewicz]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[MAM]]></title><description><![CDATA[After Microsoft, I guarded art for the Metz Art Museum and devoured the Internet.]]></description><link>https://aurorabridge.substack.com/p/mam</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://aurorabridge.substack.com/p/mam</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tad Kosewicz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:31:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M-WW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09a41352-1767-41cb-af65-84d78016f7af_967x505.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>A</strong>fter <a href="https://tadkosewicz.substack.com/p/seattle">Microsoft</a>, I guarded art for the <a href="https://fryemuseum.org/">Metz Art Museum</a> and devoured the Internet. Because the year is 2000 now and the Internet is breaking huge. It replays the age of great discoveries, as is often said, new territories, new riches, new savages, new sins and redemptions. I also walked around <a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7c96aa3-de76-42a0-ae06-5ca17e32c69f_1536x1024.webp">Green Lake</a>, which is also a mandala, but not as based as stup&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[PAM]]></title><description><![CDATA[I guard for Puget Art Museum now.]]></description><link>https://aurorabridge.substack.com/p/pam</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://aurorabridge.substack.com/p/pam</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tad Kosewicz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:15:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!k9xW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F91cdd9fc-31dd-4884-a14a-e9375eea3f35_468x604.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>I</strong> guard for <a href="https://www.seattleartmuseum.org/">Puget Art Museum</a> now. This is a <em>normal</em> art salon, unlike the <em>redneck</em> <a href="https://tadkosewicz.substack.com/p/mam">MAM</a>. We&#8217;re still in the early 2000s here, but they&#8217;re already batshit woke. But such outfits are 90% women staffed, excuse me, 95. Broads, broads, broads, wherever you look on the sixth floor where the offices are.</p><p>Didn&#8217;t take long to get in trouble. Because of the Jackson Pollock piece the museum owned, gas like the rest of his pailtistry.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!k9xW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F91cdd9fc-31dd-4884-a14a-e9375eea3f35_468x604.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!k9xW!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F91cdd9fc-31dd-4884-a14a-e9375eea3f35_468x604.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!k9xW!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F91cdd9fc-31dd-4884-a14a-e9375eea3f35_468x604.png 848w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Sea Change, Jackson Pollock, <a href="https://art.seattleartmuseum.org/objects/2742/sea-change?ctx=7d13b7f7-7a4a-4912-ab22-5e7ae430c1d8&amp;idx=2">Seattle Art Museum</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>Couldn&#8217;t resist commenting with a straight face, especially to high schoolers, that the piece was originally twice as wide, but the museum was short on funds so we cut it in half and monetized one half. A lot of kids believed me. Not hard to believe that you can make two or even three aesthetically unabridged pieces off one Pollock, and kids are natural.</p><p>I was reported for that. By a teacher, or by one of the lesbians, somebody said, we had a few on the staff and they aren&#8217;t quite normal toward stronger guys. They butt you as if nature ordered them to fight you for reproductive access, but they have no balls, no seed, no complementary DNA. Comedy.</p><p>Our security chief who hired me was a retired cop detective, famed for nabbing a serial killer down by Columbia River. We hit it off from the start, he liked that I kicked the Bolsheviks&#8217; shins back in my starting country. And he fixed up the Pollock crime with the sixth floor.</p><p>The chief knew what was going on in his country, he connected the dots. He just couldn&#8217;t frame it intellectually, like me, but that wasn&#8217;t his kind&#8217;s commission. It was and is the Euroamerican eggheads&#8217; task, before anybody else&#8217;s, that&#8217;s how it&#8217;s organically evolved in LHGs (Large Human Groups). But try to find those bozos in the trenches. It pissed me watching the chief go at times embarrassingly insecure in that prickly early woke environ of the 2000s. But he didn&#8217;t have the public backing of these egghead eunuchs, they just weren&#8217;t daring. He caught a serial killer, what else would you want him to do, fight <a href="https://www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness/">Herbert Marcuse</a> with a magnum?</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br><br><strong><a href="https://aurorabridge.substack.com/p/bridges-progress">The Bridge&#8217;s Progress</a></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://aurorabridge.substack.com/">main</a><br><br><br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ropers]]></title><description><![CDATA[This Sunday after the meeting the pastors Phil and Gary walk up to me, hang around, hang around, finally if I want for them to visit me on the ranch.]]></description><link>https://aurorabridge.substack.com/p/ropers-a7f</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://aurorabridge.substack.com/p/ropers-a7f</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tad Kosewicz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:35:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mBiv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d816339-af34-4f44-855a-bb2c9d433beb_588x469.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>T</strong>his Sunday after the meeting the pastors Phil and Gary walk up to me, hang around, hang around, finally if I want for them to visit me on the ranch.</p><p>Proselytism, I understand.</p><p>Except that we have a li&#8217;l problem here. I&#8217;m not that crazy about the pastors. The regular believers of this Bible club I do take to. But something keeps me distant from the shephe&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Town]]></title><description><![CDATA[My first piece in English was a novella about a childhood town, an absolute knockout.]]></description><link>https://aurorabridge.substack.com/p/our-town-411</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://aurorabridge.substack.com/p/our-town-411</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tad Kosewicz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:01:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZGwF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a1e3292-d805-4c16-b35e-ee6ebf5fe3f5_940x632.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>M</strong>y first piece in English was a novella about a childhood town, an absolute knockout. Maybe I should publish it. Or maybe not, because&#8230; seriously, I&#8217;ve never seen anything like this in literature. Maybe in religion, oh, that&#8217;s closer.</p><p>I wrote it in New York, seven years after I had clocked in in America, and it rolled me into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacDowell_(artists%27_residency_and_workshop)#Notable_works">MacDowell Colony</a> in Pete&#8230;</p>
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