Monthly Archives: August 2016

Utilitarian Review 8/27/16

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News

Logan Dalton at Graphic Policy has a nice review of my forthcoming ebook, “Your Favorite Superheroes Suck.”

And a reminder you can preorder the book here.

And see the awesome cover for my forthcoming Dracula book, designed by Vom Marlowe, above.
 
Patreon

Patrons at $2/mo can read my essay on Hammer Studios The Vampire Lovers, and how all vampires are lesbians now.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the LA Times I wrote about Nate Parker and the false idea that you can separate art and artist.

At Quartz I wrote about

—the promise (limited but real) of conservative prison reform.

— the University of Chicago’s anti trigger warning letter and how it intentionally restricts freedom of speech.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—why we should get rid of the electoral college.

—Redford’s The Candidate and selling lefty authenticity.

Utilitarian Review 8/20/16

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PRESIDENT'S ANALYST, THE, James Coburn, Joan Delaney, 1967

 
Patreon

For $2/mo partrons I wrote about

—charismatic bullied vampires and Let the Right One In.

—why Mark Millar’s Nemesis is bad.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At LARB I wrote about how academics and journalists are in the same neoliberal hell. Why can’t we all just get along?

At Quartz I wrote about War Dogs and ignoring war as you bomb people.

At Religion Dispatches I wrote about how our love of disaster makes us less safe.

At Splice Today I wrote about the great 1967 film The President’s Analyst and how politics will eat your brain.

Utilitarian Review 8/12/16

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favorite superhero

 
News

My next ebook, Your Favorite Superhero Sucks is available for preorder! Out September 19, with an awesome cover by my son.
 
Patreon

Free for all, I wrote about It Follows as a vampire film. (venereal disease horror ftw.)

For $1/mo subscribers, the introduction to Your Favorite Superhero Sucks. Find out why superheroes are bad!
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the Guardian I wrote about

—Nelly Furtado, Timbaland, and the joy of promiscuous R&B.

—Spellbound, Suicide Squad, and fear of a female psychiatrist.

In my first piece for LitHub, I wrote about N.K. Jemisin’s The Obelisk Gate and why fantasy needs an apocalypse.

At the Reader I reviewed R&B duo Lion Babe.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—the joys of digital self promotion.

—the fact that you can think Trump is a fascist and still oppose him through democratic means.

—Otto Preminger’s Advise & Consent and the dream of a politics of individual conscience.

Utilitarian Review 8/6/16

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I managed to sell 50 copies of my ebook on Fecund Horror in my first month. I promised if that happened I’d watch It Follows and write about it…which is what I’m planning to do on Monday. So watch for that over on Patreon (it’ll be free.)

I also need to write another vampire essay this month. Maybe on Let the Right One In?

Also, as a benefit for $10/mo subscribers, I’ve offered to let people commission essays. I’ve only had two folks take me up on it so far; so over the next month or two I’m committed to writing about Mark Millar’s comic Nemesis and the film, Dude, Where’s My Car?
 
Patreon

I posted my essay on Lair of the White Worm and obvious penises for $2/mo subscribers.

I am going to publish a book called Your Favorite Superhero Sucks probably in early September. My son drew an awesome cover for it which $1/month subscribers can see here.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Playboy I wrote about the Suicide Squad and the dream that the people we imprison will love us anyway.

At Quartz I wrote about the virtues of teaching children to curse.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—John Ford’s The Last Hurrah, Trump and how you can’t tell the fascism from the democracy.

—two great banjo albums by Kaia Kater and Nathan Bowles.