Substack Reads, I think. I started reading your political columns, which I don't always agree with but always find worth reading, then I saw you were reviewing STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES, too! So that's two points of common interest (three, if you count Brian DePalma), and I HAD to disagree with you about...something, so I became a paid subscriber.
It was a combination of both liking your work and disagreeing with you.
I read your comics writing - could it be decades ago? - back when I was working at a comics shop, lost track of you, and was then thrilled to find you again on Twitter. Finding you and your writing again is one of the few things I am unreservedly grateful to Twitter for.
Via Aaron Rupar and remembering you said funny things on Twitter. I'm moving from old journalism (with its lazy habits and dangerous "business as usual" tropes) to new journalism (fresh perspectives and urgency on sites like Substack).
There are perilous times, and we need all the voices out there calling out the emerging fascisti and helping us understand what's actually happening. We also need humor and hope and sincerity.
I was stuck living with you and can’t seem to escape your influence. I’m assuming you put something in my cereal and have been controlling me ever since. It’s the only explanation.
I think it started with a guy named Ian Robertson introducing us in 1993 or 1994 in a crummy grad apartment building we both lived in on Harper in Hyde Park. How exactly that land us here or where Ian is now are both questions I can't answer.
I think he graduated and then followed Janine to a place where she was the professor and he was doing some kind of tech stuff. And I vaguely remember being told they were divorcing but that could be pure hallucination.
Substack Reads, I think. I started reading your political columns, which I don't always agree with but always find worth reading, then I saw you were reviewing STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES, too! So that's two points of common interest (three, if you count Brian DePalma), and I HAD to disagree with you about...something, so I became a paid subscriber.
It was a combination of both liking your work and disagreeing with you.
I read your comics writing - could it be decades ago? - back when I was working at a comics shop, lost track of you, and was then thrilled to find you again on Twitter. Finding you and your writing again is one of the few things I am unreservedly grateful to Twitter for.
Oh, that's so kind!
Yes, Hooded Utilitarian shuttered a ways back alas...it might have been 10 years. I'm afraid to look!
Via Aaron Rupar and remembering you said funny things on Twitter. I'm moving from old journalism (with its lazy habits and dangerous "business as usual" tropes) to new journalism (fresh perspectives and urgency on sites like Substack).
There are perilous times, and we need all the voices out there calling out the emerging fascisti and helping us understand what's actually happening. We also need humor and hope and sincerity.
Thanks for asking. Please keep writing.
I found you on Twitter and Aaron Rupar's Public Notice posts. I stay for the cats... mostly :P
I found you in Twitter and Aaron Rupert posts. Also Heather Cox Richardson fits in there somehow within one vain I travel
A blurb on Public Notice email.
Public Notice
twitter refugee
I think it was via Aaron Rupar. 🤷♀️
referred by Aaron Rupar’s Public Notice...I like cats too...
Twitter.
I found you through Public Notice. I always appreciate your perspective.
I like cats.
I also like the variety of content you offer.
I have a lot of cats.
This is also a good place to ask me questions if you have any!
I was stuck living with you and can’t seem to escape your influence. I’m assuming you put something in my cereal and have been controlling me ever since. It’s the only explanation.
I am devious!
I think it started with a guy named Ian Robertson introducing us in 1993 or 1994 in a crummy grad apartment building we both lived in on Harper in Hyde Park. How exactly that land us here or where Ian is now are both questions I can't answer.
did Ian not graduate? he's not a professor now?
I think he graduated and then followed Janine to a place where she was the professor and he was doing some kind of tech stuff. And I vaguely remember being told they were divorcing but that could be pure hallucination.