Wikipedia is a lifeboat in a sea of garbage

I’m happy it survives. But its existence increasingly feels like anomaly.

A quick note about this site's RSS feed

It’s been updated.

Hey let's review a comic about a bird getting existential

bird comic by Ruby Carter is quite good.

'A man for whom historical truth had all his life run at twenty-four frames a second'

More notes on Joan Didion’s Political Fictions (2001)

I love to hate on Ross Douthat

He’s a conservative intellectual trapped in an enemies-to-lovers arc with liberalism.

The critic is dead

But criticism is alive? Maybe?

A few scattered thoughts about cheap art

I can’t tell if this is coherent but it’s been on my mind.

How do you grieve for a pet?

Someone please let me know.

Another marginal note on Joan Didion

Political Fictions (2001)

The internet is ugly when it falls apart

On the perceptual experience of link rot.

Comics won't just break your heart

On the unforgiving economics of making comics—and cartoonists’ efforts to change them—in the wake of #ComicsBrokeMe

I leave pieces of myself behind

It’s difficult to articulate what gets lost.

A marginal note on Joan Didion

Political Fictions (2001)

'Raid of the Rainbow Lounge' is still relevant

This is kind of a film review but also just a rant.

What use is obsessive journaling?

It’s pointless. I love it and can’t live without it.

Kamala Harris and the burden of Fortnite

I’m not sure it’s possible to come up with a worse idea.

Sometimes I turn incoherent thoughts into something like gold

A few notes on writing good.

Five hundred years of bureaucratic violence

The methods have changed. The cruel essence remains.

This comic is a glorious mess

A review of Do a Powerbomb! by Daniel Warren Johnson.

Who gets to decide what 'real democracy' is?

Anyone, as long as they don’t work at Politico.