Strange Horticulture (2022)
I find myself thankful for any experience of an artwork which gets me thinking afterward, whether it’s about the subject of the work itself or how to go about my own.
Things I liked in 2023
Sorry to all of my friends to whom I have not shut up about this.
Dress-up Games
Beauty is worth the pain.
Vignettes #2
It feels like people want to justify enjoying something commercial by asserting that it is also art, which isn't necessary and isn't always true.
Vignettes #1
The DGA’s leadership is full of cowards, and the AMPTP, those cartoon villains, will get what’s coming to them.
A Curious House Ends
My house was built of sentences.
Network, or the entertainment value of anger (originally posted on Substack on July 8th, 2021)
It's a good movie In one of my history classes in high school, I watched a clip from Network without any prior knowledge of the movie. All I knew was Peter Finch’s illuminated face projected onto a screen pulled down over the chalkboard, and the words that
Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies (originally posted on Substack)
In other words, you know this song.
Things I think about when I can’t fall asleep (originally posted on Substack on July 24th, 2020)
What does the Chopin heart cognac taste like
COVID-19 Dreams (originally posted on Substack on July 10th, 2020)
At least the door is closed now.
Introducing Fox Laughter (originally posted July 1st, 2020 on Substack)
The laughter we hear from domesticated foxes is our own. Svetlana Gogoleva, a vocal researcher in the decades-long Russian study on breeding and taming foxes into pets, theorizes that the foxes learned to mimic our expression of happiness in order to keep our attention. They have become “adept at pleasing