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  • I have given a name to my pain, and it is Samantha I don’t know why Samantha. The referent most often in my head, since Samantha became persistent enough to deserve naming, is of course Samantha Micelli from Who’s The…

  • I’ve started a project — actually, four projects — in various stages of formfulness, and the result is, anytime I sit down to write, it’s more opportune to work on one of them than to write anything internet-facing — which…

  • I started having the ramen dream, I am fairly sure, during the pandemic. If not, it would have started fairly close-to. Certainly, I was having the ramen dream sometime after the second time I visited Japan, in March/April 2019. Equally…

  • Congratulations to us! We have once again survived a year of “content,” and yet another etch on the sliding scale between what used to be short- and long-form filmed storytelling, and whatever this medium is en route to becoming. And…

  • It happened quickly. Sitting in the dark pushing my way through the muddy middle plotting of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, or more recently this week, absorbing the tonal mishmash of the first two episodes of Disney+’s new Willow extension. “Well,…

  • “THE DEAD SPEAK!!” So began the final episode of A More Civilized Age‘s mini-season of Andor coverage, recapping and responding to the season finale of Lucasfilm’s finest achievement in the Disney era*. Since about twelve hours after I got back…

  • in which it becomes clear that power fantasies for children have fucked up a generation or two of grown-ups

  • Twitter, now irretrievably devalued and set on a course to imminent or eventual obsolescence by the whims of a lousy billionaire with delusions of grandeur, was my social platform of choice. It wasn’t a “hell site,” though as a white…