Everything is horrible but the dog and the cat can be friends.
Here’s what I published this week.
Politics
Streamed executions as fascist spectacle. (Public Notice)
Democrats are suddenly willing to call Nazis by name. (EIH)
Empathizing with AI for fun and profit. (EIH)
The raid on Ilhan Omar’s home is election interference. (EIH)
Cultural criticism
An interview with pioneering queer curator Jonathan D. Katz. (Observer.com)
The Sweet Smell of Success enjoys the bad despite itself. (Splice Today)
Applachian hardcore band Vile Mind screams at big pharma. (Chicago Reader)
On American identity and the romance novellas of Hamilton’s Batallion. (EIH)
Poetry
Couple of kitty snuggle poems. (Five Fleas)
a cat on your chest
keeps the sleep in
Kitty would rather scratch me
than sit on me. Poetry
is for scratching wounds.
From the archive
Track of the week
Old school hip hop throwback.
