Where are we going?
Everything written for this site can be read in any order.
Read any article at random.
It’ll lead somewhere.
If it makes sense, keep going.
If it almost makes sense, keep going.
If it doesn’t make sense at all, you’re exactly where you should be.
Keep going.
Or…If you want things to make sense quicker…
Things make a lot more sense when you start reading those first.
If you’re not sure why any of this matters, start here.
Or start here. This is closer to what it feels like.
If you’re wondering what this is, this is where it starts.
If you want to get somewhere in a hurry…
Just take your time when you get there.
You can also check out the obligatory About Page
If the writing resonates, there is also an Old Fashioned Letters Page, where you can sign up to hear when there's something new to read.
Read Everything
For those that don’t need categories: All essays, stories and ideas — in one place.
You don’t like horror? What the hell’s wrong with you?
When I hear, ‘I do not understand why anyone would watch horror,’ my immediate thought is ‘I can’t imagine a world without the urge to look
A Girl Raised on a Dying Planet
Clark makes the right decisions because of how he was raised. What drives Kara?
No one would actually take a ride in the Millennium Falcon
Packaging, in the real world, gets us every time. It’s about making something look desirable. Desirable is not always the gauge we can reliably use to measure quality.
I'm thinking you have to be ok with cutting off at least one finger to be the best that you can be
Sacrifice and suffering do not create art. There’s this idea that if you put enough suffering into your work a masterpiece will be the result. I think there’s more suffering in the world than there are writers for that to be true.
This is not a review of the Batman film called “The Batman”(Not to be confused with any other Batman)
At the one hour fifteen mark in the film I realised I was watching an exciting car chase and just didn’t care.
The Brie Larson Appreciation Society
They didn’t watch Captain Marvel.
They watched what they thought Captain Marvel was supposed to be.
Where and when I gave up on reviews
Don’t tell me if it’s good.
Tell me what it is.
The Simpsons did not make me part of the intellectual liberal elite
It’s all the same.
You just liked it.