40% off sale! and This Week's Writing 9/21/24
$30/year. help me survive the implosion of the media industry
Hi all! As the meme says, The Creature is once again asking you to become a paid subscriber. There’s a sale right now; 40% off!
Your subscriptions really make a huge difference to me (and the cats) as the media industry completely collapses. I have fewer and fewer opportunities and clients; not sure what I’d do without your support. So I’m thankful for every person who feels they can pay for what I do and helps me to keep doing it. Hope some of you can come on board!
And…here’s what I published this week.
If you read one thing by me this week, read:
On how Richard Wright’s Black Boy locates fascism in Jim Crow—and in the family. (EIH)
Politics
Trump’s love for Laura Loomer is disqualifying. (Public Notice)
Interviewed Jason Stanley, whose new book, Erasing History, looks at how fascists try to erase the past. (Public Notice)
Racism isn’t (just) a distraction; it’s a goal. (EIH)
Cultural Criticism
In Immaculate Syndey Sweeney tells off the right wingers creepily obsessed with her. (EIH)
I wish all the big bone-headed action movies were as fun as Killer’s Game. (Chicago Reader)
A bit of background on the wonderful Pakistani musician Noor Bakhsh. (Chicago Reader)
Recommending Italian electronica composer Caterina Barbieri. (Chicago Reader)
Poetry
A snarky poem about “thinking different.” (Synchronized Chaos)
A little sound poem. (Ranger)
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A poem listing every word in Paradise Lost starting with “Un.” (Ranger)
It is best $30! No other individuals do I pay for in a single chunk at this point. It is a twitch thing for me, but that’s ok! You are varied and always interesting and I appreciate this. Plus Star Trek!
I’m really glad Public Notice publishes you. They do excellent work and I think increasingly so. You fit in well to that. No one documents Trump more directly and rigorously than Aaron. It has to be tough and diligent work, to bathe in it like he does. It all goes together.
That’s a lot of un words. Unbottomed gave me pause.
I have to confess that I’m not sure how to approach the Dada poems. If there’s a trick into them, I’d love to know.
Thank you for your work!