Matthew Bizer’s Reviews > There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension > Status Update
Matthew Bizer
is 67% done
“I would like to be granted an audience with the architect of longing. […] I don't believe the architect to be any kind of God, though I would be open to being proven wrong. I imagine, most likely, that we are dealing with one of God's lesser angels. One of the bored and mischievous ones, with too much time on their hands, who disrupted an otherwise reasonably stable emotional cocktail with their own whimsy.”
— Dec 25, 2025 08:20PM
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Matthew Bizer
is 75% done
“As the aforementioned tanks poured into town, my city's mayor stood behind a podium and said, ‘This country is better than what we're seeing today.’ The hustle is that everyone talks about the ‘today’ as a single day that materialized, untethered, with no connection to any history before it or any history that will come after it. As if a moment is not within a braid of moments that defines a place.“
— Jan 07, 2026 06:54PM
Matthew Bizer
is 50% done
“With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn't matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns.”
— Dec 20, 2025 11:01AM
Matthew Bizer
is 40% done
“I have never figured out where the line is drawn between a foolish prayer and a worthy prayer, and so I grew to believe that all of my prayers were foolish, even the ones heaved into the air in desperation, which might be the most foolish of them all.”
— Dec 14, 2025 12:05AM
Matthew Bizer
is 35% done
“I have never figured out where the line is drawn between a foolish prayer and a worthy prayer, and so I grew to believe that all of my prayers were foolish, even the ones heaved into the air in desperation, which might be the most foolish of them all.”
— Dec 14, 2025 12:04AM
Matthew Bizer
is 35% done
“he, at some point, got caught up with what he called the wrong crowd. […] What is rarely said about these people and about these moments in our lives is that sometimes the wrong crowd is simply the crowd that loves you the best. The crowd that sees you the clearest. Their wrongness perhaps not inherent but cultivated through a series of neglects or unresolved pains.”
— Nov 30, 2025 08:04PM
Matthew Bizer
is 25% done
“I do not waste time or language on our enemies, beloveds. But if I ever did, I would tell them that there is a river between what they see and what they know. And they don't have the heart to cross it.”
— Nov 27, 2025 08:05PM
