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poetic war
Describe your 2025 in politics, culture, and the universe? No. Ugh. Ok. I’ll bite …a little bit, for the blog. I was doing a little experiment the other week. I had a perfectly good reason to post a pointless video clip on social media the other day, but I didn’t want to use my main
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on online
What is your perspective on the culture of 2025? Can I write what I really want to write here without getting put on a list somewhere that prevents me from crossing borders? Hmm… I mean, you’re online. You’re almost certainly reading this on a screen, in a web browser, through a magic wire that connects
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book reviews: on down the river
September may be the end of summer reads, but no doubt that I am still trudging through a reading list longer than I care to admit. My lack of completed tomes this last few weeks has less to do with the quantity of reading I am going and more to do with my ability to
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social games, two
We all start to sound a bit like junkies when we ponder aloud the idea of fleeing the social platforms once and for good, weaning ourselves off our feeds, setting limits and goals and self moderation parameters, or screaming digital curses to the gods of going cold turkey. It has been a week. A fucking
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flick: idiocracy
I jumped on the bandwagon and last night I watched a flick I haven’t seen in almost twenty years: Idocracy. And, boy, does that hit differently these days. You’ve seen the meme shitposting, no doubt. “Idocracy wasn’t an instruction manual, guys!” At least people are screaming it into the void on my social feeds as