40% off sale, $30/week on annual subs—and this week's writing
4/26/26
So, my sale is not doing so great. I don’t like to beg but! The blog is entirely dependent on your support. Help me keep scribbling! feed the kitty! How can you say no to that kitty?!
So much for dignity. Here’s what I published this week.
Politics
The beginning of the end for Mike Johnson. (Public Notice)
—and hey, Heather Cox Richardson mentioned this piece! (Letters from an American)
Mamdani points the way to the future. (Ipaper)
Femicide is a political act of terror. (EIH)
The Democratic party is as good as it’s ever been. (EIH)
Cultural criticism
Homelander vs. Trump: who is the most evil? (EIH)
Gen V fights the patriarchy…almost. (EIH)
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is a disgrace to Mummy movies. (Chicago Reader)
Southern rock tries to throw off whiteness, with mixed success. (EIH)
The pleasurable pointlessness of Prisoners of the Ghostland. (EIH)
Poetry
Little brain poem. (smols)
the
anxious
zombie
eats
itself
Another little brain poem. (Five Fleas)
Migraine
darkness flashes first
before it hurts
And one more… (Five Fleas)
Time
I’m running out of
