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2023 Year in Review
Books Book that made me nod my head again and again and also left me deeply unsettled: Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger Best book about scary caves: The Luminous Dead…
In the Gaps
There is a moment in Charlotte Wells’ brilliant debut film Aftersun when eleven-year-old Sophie is “interviewing” her father. It’s the late 1990s, and she holds a small video…
Childhood’s End: Finding Meaning in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
The story goes that one of the first screenings of The Dark Crystal for suited investors went very, very badly. After the credits rolled and the lights came…
Best of 2018
Hey there, blog that I update like twice a year! At least this time I’m actually getting my “best of” list out before January. Movies Managed to watch…
Stuff to Read / Watch / Listen to
There’s horrible stuff going on everywhere right now, so maybe we all need some good media to consume. Here’s some stuff I’ve been reading / watching / listening…
Best of 2017, Part 2: Movies
I really slacked on the movie-watching this year—in 2016 I managed to watch 73 movies, but in 2017 I only made it to 47. Chalk it up to…
Best of 2017: Part 1
I let something happen in 2017 that I swore I wouldn’t let happen—I got numb to all the horrible stuff that was happening in the world. And I…
Who Owns Aokigahara?
As you may have heard, recently a YouTuber named Logan Paul thought it’d be cool to film himself and some friends looking at the body of a suicide…
Do the Right Thing
There are so many things to say about the Weinstein affair–about how we shouldn’t shame accusers for not coming forward sooner, about how this kind of behavior is…
The Post-Mass Shooting Checklist
Phase 1 1. Messages about shock and heartbreak, confusion about who did it and why. 2. Overall sense of familiar dread and helplessness, messages of disbelief from people…
Music Memories to Chill Your Bones
A little trip down Music Memory lane… Growing up in Austin in the 1980s, I participated, with tons of other children, in the Music Memory program. In a…
Best of 2016
Is 2016 fucking over yet? I said recently that my pre-election social mediaverse looked like that sweet first date video camera footage that they accidentally recorded an alien…