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HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS Makes Movies Silly Again

The 30 Best Books I Read in 2024

This Year's Best Writing By Me

Nightbitch And the Mess of Female Creation

CUCKOO Is a Messy B-Movie Metaphor for Autism

The Great Anti-Christmas Index

Against Christmas Movies and Romance Movies Both

Charlie Baltimore Fights Christmas

The Gremlins' War on Christmas

Die Hard’s Reactionary Values Make it a Christmas Movie

This Week's Writing 12/21/24

"It's a Wonderful Life" Seems Less Wonderful In Trump's America

Disney Bans Trans Stories, Embraces Hate

Anora Is a Great Film Stapled to a Mediocre Film

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Why Do Portions of the Left Fall for Fascism?

Sydney Sweeney and Evaluative Aggression

This Week's Writing 12/14/24

Weep For the Beautiful People in WE LIVE IN TIME

Hamilton, Immigrant Anti-Immigrant Demagogue

In Romulus, Hollywood is the Xenomorph

Biden using the pardon power to thwart Trump is good, actually

Deadpool & Wolverine Review

The Weird Smile of the Mainstream

FDR Is Not a Good Model for the Current Democratic Party

GOP and Trump Agree They Should Rule

THE WILD ROBOT Is Not Wild

LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back

HERETIC Believes in Intelligent Bad Guys

This Week's Writing 11/30/24

Why The Patriarchy Wants You To Hate Incels

The Substance Twists Body Horror Back On Itself

Laverne Cox and Beauty

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AI Poetry Is Better than Human Poetry If You Don’t Like Poetry

Abortion Is An Economic Issue

“Game Over!”: Bill Paxton Models Complying In Advance

Some Recs From the Archive

Blink Twice And The Master’s Tools

This Week's Writing 11/16/24

The Meaning of Star Wars is Chewbacca

Trump Is Incompetent

Rosa Nevadovska and Home in Exile

It May Not Be Safe to Remain Friends With MAGA

This Week's Writing 11/10/24

MY OLD ASS Is A Story About Being True to Yourself Which Isn’t

Tim Walz 2028

Queer Glances

If Trump Wins, We Will Need Solidarity, Not Blame

White Supremacy Leads People to Swallow Ridiculous Bullshit

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The Horror of Entertainment

Yes, You Can Be Racist Against Puerto Ricans

Losing to Fascism Will Make Everything Worse

Damien, I Love You! It's All For You!

This Week's Writing 10/26

Possession, Race, and Innocence in ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘Angel Heart’

Liz Cheney Makes Pro-Choice Arguments

Safe for Zionism Is Not The Same As Safe for Jews

We Don’t Know What Harris Will Do On Gaza

Be Skeptical of Anti-Establishment Branding

If Trump Wins, He Will Have Unified GOP Control

Nat Turner vs. Hollywood

Why Does Kamala Harris Keep Courting Republicans?

I SAW THE TV GLOW Embraces Queer Obscurity

It's Okay to Protest Matt Yglesias (and! This Week's Writing 10/12/24)

The Greens Want to Harm Their Enemies

“I Don’t Believe in Taft-Hartley”

Why Trump Lies About Natural Disasters

Loving the Transformed Man

This Week's Writing 10/5/24

The Right to a State and State’s Rights

NEW LIFE And the New Zombie Disability

Military Aid to Israel Is Immoral Because It’s Immoral, Not Because It's Expensive

This Week's Writing 9/28/24

Steph Cha’s YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY Unwinds the Carceral Plot

Thoughts and Prayers on Gaza

A Queer Childhood Memory

Is Trump Planning To Coup Instead of Planning to Win?

I Try to Mask. And Then Sometimes I Fail.

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Immaculate Is Pro-Choice

Racism Isn’t a Distraction

Fascism and the Family

This Week's Writing 9/15/24

Everyone Knows Trump Is Less Fit Than Biden

Trump Is Lying When He Says He Has a Concept of a Plan

Why Do People Want To Come Here If It’s So Horrible?

Professor X Isn't MLK. He's Booker T.

Why Did W.E.B. Du Bois’ Support Zionism and Stalinism?

Books! By Me! That You Can Buy!

R-pilled Polls Are Bad For Rs…and This Week’s Writing 9/7/24

Death vs. Genre in A Quiet Place

Zionists Exercise Power by Policing the Definition of Zionism

Harris’ 2020 Campaign Was Not a Failure

This Week's Writing 8/31/24

Trump’s Arlington Photoshoot Shows That Fascism is Here

James Merrill and Queer Fire

Life and Death, Uninspired

Gus Walz Was Bullied at the DNC Because He’s Neurodivergent

This Week's Writing 8/24/24

In Challengers, Zendaya Gets to Compete

The Hitler Myth vs. The Trump Myth

Why Isn’t Trump Campaigning Hard? Maybe Because He Has PTSD.

James Merrill And The Queer Carpet

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We Don't Know Who Wins, We Don't Know If It Will Be Close

Claude McKay’s Dance With Gender

Harris Can Declare a Change From Biden’s Israel Policy Now

This Week's Writing 8/10/24

Why Trump Feels Bad for Biden

J.D. Vance Hates Poor People

Against Roots

The 25 Best Albums of the 2020s

This Week's Writing 8/2/24

Why Is Trump Obsessed With Saying Harris Isn’t Black?

“Abigail” Tears Genre Apart

Why Weird Works

Was Vance Sincerely Radicalized, Or Is He Just An Opportunist?

This Week's Writing 7/27/24

J.D. Vance's Hatred of Cat Ladies Is Eugenics

Men in 3 Women

My Poetry Book,*Not Akhmatova,* Publishes Today!

I Was Wrong About Biden Dropping Out

Poems To Celebrate the Poetry Book!

This Week's Writing 7/20/24

*Not Akhmatova* Is Out On July 23rd

Debunking J.D. Vance’s Biography Is Counterproductive

The 50 Best Novels of the 21st Century

Malignant and Metastasizing Trans Horror

Don’t Spread Baseless Conspiracy Theories About The Assassination Attempt

This Week's Writing 7/13/24

Why Does the Media Freak Out About Biden’s Electability, But Not Trump’s?

Writing Is Not A Glamorous Spiritual Calling

Was Sex Better Before? (In Hollywood)

The Global Anti-Incumbent Post-Covid Wave

This Week's Writing 7/6/24

Best Roots Albums of 2024 So Far

Should Biden Arrest the Conservative Supreme Court Justices?

Trump Understands Fascism Better Than Stanley Milgram

Robert Creeley’s Unsettling Poem “Kore”

A Simple Favor Is a Twisty Path To Standard Hollywood Default

This Week's Writing 6/28/24

Do Debates Matter?

Kate Atkinson in the Multiverse of Sadness

Donald Sutherland Fights Conformity

Jamaal Bowman Is Right

Hidden Figures, White Saviors

This Week's Writing 6/22/24

Who’s Afraid of a Mary Sue?

How Trump Changed the Way I Look At The Old Masters

Trump Hates Votes. Even When They're For Him.

Please Help Journalist Linda Tirado

This Week's Writing 6/14/24

Polling Isn’t Broken

Double Psycho Misogyny

The Dreyfus Affair And the (Not) Inevitable Road to Zionism

This Week's Writing 6/8/24

The Invisible Man

Mitt Romney Kisses Trump’s Ass, Because That is What Republicans Do

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When people stand up to Trump, they deserve our solidarity, not our cynicism.

Yes, Trump Is a Christian

What If Your Empowerment Fantasy Wasn’t That Empowering?

Trump Is The Heir of Eisenhower

This Week's Writing 5/25/24

The 25 Best Albums of the 2010s

Force Alito to Appear at Hearings, Dick Durbin, You Doofus

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene

Sam Alito Is a Fascist Insurrectionist

This Week's Writing 5/17/24

Who Wrote Auden’s “The Lesson”?

White Capital Paid for Kavanaugh’s Debts. Also Thomas’.

The 120-Year Old Zionist Poem Still Being Used to Smear the Diaspora and Justify Atrocity

This Week's Writing 5/10/24

Effective Altruism Is Neither Effective Nor Altruistic

Baseball, Movies, America—Pros and Cons

No, Protestors Don't Have to Talk to Media

The Day After Tomorrow, Will We All Be Okay?

This Week's Writing 5/4/24

The Fall Guy Isn't About the Fall Guy

A Quiet Place Is Stalked by Ableism

Long Covid Is a Feminist Issue

This Week's Writing 4/27/24

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Trump’s Hush Money Trial Is Petty. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.

Prisons Don’t Prevent Crime

Why Disruptive Protest Makes Sense

This Week’s Writing 4/20/24

Student Protestors Aren’t Elites

Robot Noir

Democratic Supreme Court Justices Need to Retire Strategically

Why Do White Rural Voters Vote for Republicans?

This Week's Writing 4/14/24

Spock: The Manliest Trek

Marriage Shouldn't Be Work

Identifying, Or Not, With *Men*

Justice Breyer and Ruling Class Solidarity

The Beekeeper Is a Bad Movie That’s Good At Fighting Scams

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Evil Dead 2: The Deadites Are Right

Evil Dead Essays Live Again!

Queer Letters

The ADL Is Endangering Jews

This Week's Writing 3/30/24

The 25 Best Albums of the 2000s

Populism Isn’t About Popular Policies

Don’t Platform These Fuckers

Day Shift Is a Toothless Vampire Action Film

This Week's Writing 3/22/24

Scammed Into Silence

The Feral Fake Horror of The Evil Dead

Bad Polls Aren’t Bad for Biden

This Week's Writing 3/16/22

The Humiliation of Robert Hur

The Utopia At The End of the World

Director of Film About War Crimes Can’t Be Bothered To Talk About War Crimes

This Week's Writing 3/8/24

Want to Punch Fascists? Fucking Fund Ukraine

*Maestro* Presents Unconventional Genius In the Usual Conventional Way

“You Can Use Me”: The Aesthetics of Whiteness

This Week's Writing 3/2/24

The Most Iconic Science Fiction Work Ever

It’s Still the Day of the Dead

We Need Fewer Strong Male Characters

Joe Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Shows the Power of the Presidency

This Week's Writing 2/23/24

Why Does the GOP Support Putin?

The Expanse Shows That, Yes, Israel Is A Colonial State

The 25 Best Albums of the 90s

Why Was Lee Majors At Mar-A-Lago?

This Week's Writing 2/17/24

*Plus One* Loves Weddings

Fear of Neoliberal Identity Politics

*Ready Or Not* And the Romance of Murdering the Rich

Women Outnumber Men In College Because of Sexism

What Knowing Nothing About the Super Bowl Tells You About Politics

This Week's Writing 2/9/23

The Holdovers Tells You That You Are Special

Why Can’t Mike Johnson Count?

Donald Trump is a rapist. Why won’t Biden say so?

This Week's Writing 2/4/23

Best Albums By Decade: Rationale and Rules

Star Trek TOS S2E14: The Wolf in the Fold

“I Need to Get Back to My Crew”: Amos and Crowd-Sourced Morality

Trump Isn't Unfit Because He's in Mental Decline

This Week's Writing 1/26/24

Suburban Mom, Superspy

Fatphobia Hasn't Gotten Better Over Time

Ron DeSantis Didn’t Lose Because He’s Repulsive

Can You See Color in Space?

This Week's Writing 1/20/24

The 25 Best Albums of the 1980s

Why You Shouldn't Think for Yourself

Gen V Supercops Fight Against Prisons...Then For Them

Why You Should Want Nikki Haley to Win the Primary

Nimona Has a Familiar Shape

This Week's Writing 1/12/24

AI Art Shows the Value of Disability Aesthetics

Star Trek TOS S2E13: Obsession

Low Unemployment Is A Vital Progressive Goal

The 20 Best Albums of 2023

This Week's Writing 1/6/23 (also 40% off sale)

Confessions of a Sugarholic

People Want Trump On the Ballot Because They Think He's Authentic

Best Writing By Me of 2023

The 11 Best Movies of 2023