This Week's Writing 11/30/24

40% off sale ending any minute; $30/year

Eustacia is filled with food and vague disgruntlement, as is proper for the holidays.

Also! The black friday sale is still active through at least part of this day; so if you want to keep the cat fed and keep me scribbling for 40% off and $30/year, this is the moment!

And this is what I published this week.

Politics

Trump’s government of toxic men for toxic men. (Public Notice)

Why the patriarchy wants you to hate incels. (EIH)

Cultural Criticism

Laverne Cox and beauty. (EIH)

Arlo Guthrie, not the worst music to start with. (Splice Today)

THE SUBSTANCE twists misogynist body horror back on itself. (EIH)

Poetry

Little Basho riff. (Five Fleas)

the frog
won’t vanish in
my mind

Random Facebook Movie Meme List

Movie I hate: Schindler's List
Movie I find overrated: Goodfellas
Movie I think is underappreciated: Drive Away Dolls
Movie I love: Angel Heart
Movie I can watch over and over: Clue
Movie that made me love horror: Shivers
Movie I wish I had made: Yoko Ono's No. 4 (Bottoms)
Movie that changed my life: not exactly sure what this means, but the first art movie I saw and loved was I think Kurosawa's Ran?
Movie that scared me: Dark Water
Movie that surprised me: The Silent Hour
Guilty Pleasure: I'm just going to treat this as another chance to do an underrated pick: Gus Van Sant's Psycho
Movie I should have seen but haven’t: De Palma's Scarface
Movie I will never watch: The Fabelmans
Movie that made me like musicals: not sure I can remember this, but I love Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Movie that always makes me laugh: Destination Wedding