I am antagonistic, towards political statements, towards media and pop culture, towards ad slogans and other marketing copy, towards really any text, and if you happen to like that text then you're collateral damage.
Year in Review 2022: Books
As with any "Best" collection, there are a couple selections in here that seem grossly undeserving of the title.
$torytime, Part 3: How RINGS OF POWER Broke Its Own Story
RINGS OF POWER was doomed from the start. Well, maybe that's being too generous.
$torytime, Part 2: How HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST Broke Me
I want heroes that get chewed up and spit out but fight on anyway.
$torytime, Part 1: How the MCU Broke SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME
What makes all of this especially annoying is how unnecessary it is.
$torytime, Introduction: Three Tales of Big-Budget Storytelling Gone Bad
In 2022 there were three pieces of media that made me so mad I was unable to sleep, that were so bad that it took me hours, days, even weeks to put together reviews that adequately described how awful they were.
Twitter Thread Digest #5: The Stories We Tell Ourselves
I guess the inevitable result of decades of standardized curricula being forced onto bored students without any attempt to justify itself is millennials thinking they're owning their teachers by pointing out that a guy who predates the novel breaks something they think is a rule.
The Unburied and the Dead
Funny how, as the rivers and the lakes dry up,
Twitter Thread Digest #4: Nerding Out on Music, Vol. 1
I kind of accidentally started an unofficial and already infrequent series on Twitter called #nerdingoutonmusic, which thus far I've been defining as doing a close reading of one particular moment in a song (as you'll see, the depth of that reading is...variable). Basically, sometimes when I'm listening to a song I suddenly stop and say, …
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Methods to the Madness: How I Wrote 30(ish) Poems(ish) in 30 Days
Every year for the month of April, National Poetry Month in the U.S., some poets challenge themselves to write 30 poems in 30 days.
Certain of Eventual Failure 