Blonde: Preparing For The End

Almost everyone knows where they were when Frank Ocean’s Blonde came out. It was right at the end of an often mythologized summer of 2016. It was transformative for me. I moved out of Lakeland, Florida after my sophomore year of high school as my family packed our bags in the car and traveled across the country to a small town in Alaska. With my pops being in the Coast Guard, I’ve frequently moved but never such a massive leap. It was…