This Week's Writing 4/26/25
Lots on neurodivergence, a little bit on cats.
Hello all! Another week has run aground and/or run over us. Thank you to all who took advantage of the sale and ensured I can keep scribbling for another month! If you didn’t donate, you of course still can; it’s $50/yr, $5/month. (The kitties look like I just interrupted their convo to ask them to donate, I think. Rude.)
Here’s what I published this week.
Politics
RFK is a turd who knows nothing about autism. (Public Notice)
Elon Musk is autistic and also, unrelatedly, a bad person. (EIH)
Autistic people feel empathy. Empathy is often denied them. (EIH)
Cultural Criticism
De Palma’s RAISING CAIN is a glorious mess. (Splice Today)
Arrival and the language of colonialism. (EIH)
June Jordan on the erotic politics of white spaces. (EIH)
Poetry
Kitty poem. (Five Fleas)
Little cat,
I would let you lick me
but your tongue is rough
and it hurts.
Your orange kittehs stand there, looking dignified as they seek the lone brain cell all orange cats seem to share....
I once commented that RAISING CAIN was Brian De Palma's tribute to Douglas Sirk, full of candy-coated madness where the entertainment level rises in inverse proportion to its making any sort of sense.
The ending, with Lithgow in drag literally beaming benevolently over Fiorentino and Bauer, might outdo Dr. Emilio Lizardo in Lithgow's joyfully catching the crazy....