May 11Member-onlyHannibal & Freud: An AnalysisBedelia Du Maurier, Alana Bloom & The Wendigo: Three New Convex Mirrors to Analyze the Unanalyzable Cannibal The impenetrability of the mind of Hannibal Lecter is a theme within the Lecterverse as central as cannibalism, gothic horror, and fine art. Clarice Starling famously remarks in the 1991 film, “They don’t have a name for what he is,” which spawned decades of literary and critical examination of…Hannibal2 min read
Dec 30, 2021Member-only‘Don’t Look Up’ is just what we need(A-) DON’T LOOK UP DON’T LOOK UP is about how mass media, politics, and capitalism naturally slither together, co-conspiring to create false realties, ideologies, and agendas in order to assuage humanity from recognizing that, quite simply, we are all in very big trouble. In this film, the big trouble is…Dont Look Up4 min read
Jan 30, 2021Member-only10 Outcomes if Our Universe is a Computer SimulationWhat you’ll need to know when we get there—and we WILL get there… — If the universe is something like a computer simulation, virtual reality, or a video game it will naturally have some massive repercussions for how we think about and operate within the world. This is a concept I have been kicking around since The Matrix was released 20 years ago in…Simulation Hypothesis9 min read
Dec 11, 2020Finoa Silver and Guy Fiumarelli are the badasses to close 2020Fiona, Guy, and co. have once again cut a chunk out of the contemporary American Rock and Blues scene with weirdly seeming ease. The chemistry in Silver’s teams are always full-frontal fuck off good talents that seem to do nothing else but blast out jammers. …Fiona Silver1 min read
Sep 12, 2020We Need to Talk About How Opening Your Headline With ‘We Need to Talk About’ Makes You Sound Like a Hugely Belittling Hack-Fraud AssholeThis is not a joke. The modern trend of using the dried out, cliche, hackneyed, lazy, thoughtless, worthless, irritating, belittling, bullshit headline ‘we need to talk about’ must come to an immediate and violent death—thrown into the dustbin of literature as soon as humanly possible (if you can call blogging…Culture4 min read
Mar 26, 2020Virtual Tours and the Corona PandemicSlavoj Žižek said in 2004, “Today everyone is talking about virtual reality. But I think, frankly, that the virtual reality — is a rather miserable idea. It simply means ‘let us reproduce in an artificial, digital media an experience of reality’. …Pandemic3 min read
Mar 25, 2020Gone Biden Gone — The Biden’s GoneAfter Biden’s conspicuous absence earlier this week, the Presidential frontrunner finally did a handful of videos and interviews… and the guy seems a little more than — well… to be kind… off. Here are a few recent clips to illustrate my point: Now, bounce these clips off of…Joe Biden3 min read
Nov 3, 2019JESUS IS KING is a ‘Fake Album’Kanye West’s new album JESUS IS KING is no YEEZUS. It isn’t even LIFE OF PABLO. YEEZUS, I have listened to STRAIGHT THOUGH many, many times. That shit is PERFECT FIRE from beginning to end. JESUS IS KING is more a collection of unfinished ideas than it is an album…Music1 min read
Oct 25, 2019Everyone in the world should watch it: Edward Snowden on Joe Rogan.It should be seen in every classroom. It should be screened before Congress. It should be translated into every available language. This is not hyperbole. I rarely praise things. …Edward Snowden3 min read
Sep 26, 2019“How Dare You!” The Thunderclap of Youth in the Age of the Sixth ExtinctionThe 2007 sci-fi film Sunshine by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland opens on a spaceship full of scientists. Planet earth is enduring an unprecedented ecological catastrophe: the sun is dimming, and as a result our homeworld has grown disastrously cold. In effort to combat this, mankind has used up all…Climate Change10 min read