A new installment of @bdmcclay.bsky.social’s column on speculative fiction, on the true aliens among us and Craig Strete’s talent for depicting them:
thepointmag.com/criticism/th...
I wrote a short essay for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome To Hell World about Minneapolis' opposition to ICE.
www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...
boswell loves it
at least wernher von braun could make rockets
a melancholy black doodle sits very upright on a couch and stares fixedly out the window
the mirror crack’d from side to side / my fate has come upon me cried / the lady of shalott
Has everyone bought their copies of Moon Songs?
a short history of the word "spooktacular"
books.google.com/ngrams/graph...
tfw you’ve got a ball
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"Politics is not the nursery."
www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it
Announcement: my new book is BEAST MODE
if you would like a copy I can email you a somewhat janky pdf I made with my phone. he is very fixated on gender fwiw!
The weeks round up: @bdmcclay.bsky.social on Sydney Sweeney; @jackhanson.bsky.social on "perfomativity:" @williamhogeland.bsky.social on TCW's bad history and more!
www.unpopularfront.news/p/good-takes...
Kaiju press conference
I’m a firm believer that with SHIN GODZILLA returning to theaters, Toho should also re-release the figurines of the kaiju giving apologetic press conferences.
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no I didn't read it! I didn't think I'd like it
had a pretty good day but I've concluded I can just never tell when my vizier is being polite or scheming against me
from the archives:
i am separated from him until mid august but i will try to remember to show him then and report on his reaction
My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
"It has a really nostalgic feel" this thing is from before you were born you have nostalgia for that like you have nostalgia for Narnia
nooo I can't go to trivia canceling pre order now
is that concern or gloating…
I wonder if guys like Delicious Tacos understand that if they and their pedophilic LARPing were taken remotely seriously they'd get, at the very least, punched in the nose much more often.
I hate anxiety! I was just drinking paint and I got this awful feeling that it has lead in it, even though I know I would never buy lead drinking paint, but the feeling just gnawed at me until I checked. I wish I could just be normal and enjoy my paint.
I laughed so hard I dropped my phone into the abyss under the ottoman
Next year we're reissuing Nancy Lemann's Lives of the Saints along with a new book, The Oyster Diaries, two sections of which were published in The Paris Review.
I like all 3 types of movies: Period, Gay, and Fincher
i felt like mulholland drive could survive without my support
they're definitely all good movies but best lists always trigger a kind of scrupulosity in me… how can I know the best movies without having seen all movies etc
