Archive - Everything Is Horrible

Did Trump Voters Want This?

The answer isn’t “no.”

Apr 28 •

New Poetry Book: Gnarly Thumbs!

Anxiety Press has published my book of gnarly sonnets.

Apr 27 •

This Week's Writing 4/26/25

Lots on neurodivergence, a little bit on cats.

Apr 26 •

June Jordan & the Erotic Politics of Being In The Wrong Place

On “A Sonnet From the Stony Brook”

Apr 25 •

Autistic People Feel Empathy

But they are denied empathy by others.

Apr 24 •

Mars Demands Your Language

Arrival and the circle of colonial thinking.

Apr 23 •

Elon Musk is Autistic, and Also, Unrelatedly, a Horrible Person

There is no contradiction there.

Apr 22 •

Book News: Yet Another Heart of Darkness

Also more places to buy "Not Akhmatova"

Apr 21 •

This Week's Writing 4/19/25

Van Hollen vs. Newsom and other morality tales.

Apr 19 •

Gavin Newsom Is A Piece of Shit

Let us count the ways.

Apr 18 •

Van Hollen Shows the Way

The Senator provides a blueprint for Democratic resistance.

Apr 17 •

Democrats Need To Forget the Lessons of the 2024 Election

Things are very different now.

Apr 16 •

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