This Week's Writing 8/8/26
genocide, frivolity, cats under chairs, and more.
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Here’s what I published this week.
Politics
The right wing bubble seals the GOP in with Max Miller. (Public Notice)
Genocides are not uncommon. (EIH)
Cultural criticism
A frivolous response to Jehanne Dubrow’s Frivolity: A Defense. (EIH)
Laura is film noir as melodrama. (Splice Today)
Ice Cream Man tastes good going down, less so coming up. (Splice Today)
Obsession traps you in romance. (EIH)
70 perfect albums of the 90s. (EIH)
The mediocrity of Black Mirror. (EIH)
Poetry
Weird parable thing. (Synchronized Chaos)
got my chakra
got my chair
eyes are going
can’t tell one from the other
keep trying to sit and
falling out of
enlightenment
Another weird parable thing. (Five Fleas)
Metaphor
This is that.
The poem is a hat
Squash it flat and it’s a hole
which in falls this.
And that.
From the archive
If Moderates Overperform, How Do You Explain Sinema?
The New York Times hates trans people, workers, and the left. It therefore ran a long article trying to use statistics to convince Democrats to embrace moderation (by which they mean a platform that screws over trans people, workers, and the left.)
