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A weird piece about Channel Zero: No End House and how the Internet is a tomb.

I posted the cover for my forthcoming book on films about fascism.
 
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At the Forward I reviewed an excellent new book about the alt right by George Hawley.

At NBC I wrote about Zoé Quinn’s new book and making art to spite the harassers.

On Splice Today I

—interviewed Nick Antosca, the creator of Channel Zero: No End House.

—wrote about The Palm Beach Story, a sex worker rom com 50 years before Pretty Woman.

—wrote about Ka Baird‘s weird avant pagan spooky folk music.

 
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The lovely and talented Donovan Morgan Grant and I talked about Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman on his podcast, the Comic Book Film Revue.

At Thinkprogress I wrote about a study that shows that when female homicide rates dropped when Craigslist opened its erotic services section.

At the Verge I argued that Elizabeth Marston and Olive Byrne totally had sex with each other just like the new movie says.

At Pacific Standard I told Dick Durbin not to chase those mythical sensible centrists.

At Quartz I wrote about how the Weinstein story is about patriarchy as well as sexism.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—the craven new social media policy at the New York Times.

—The Awful Truth and risqué innocence.

At Bandcamp I wrote about a great world dance album by Diron Animal.

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Why all the characters on Grey’s Anatomy are horrible people.

Happy Death Day! and making the slasher a rom com and vice versa.

Chapo Trap House needs to stop mocking victims of sexual assault.
 
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At Bandcamp I did a gloriously massive list of sludge metal.

At Pacific Standard

—I wrote about how panic over free speech on campus is a threat to free speech.

—Ilana Gershon and I wrote about how studying the humanities teaches you to job hunt.

At Playboy I explained why the television Watchmen adaptation will suck.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—Lookingglass theater’s Dickens adaptation and how capitalists these days love the circus.

—a terrible piece at the Tablet which blamed Weinstein’s abusiveness on his Jewishness.

—the Philadelphia Story and the joys of humiliating women.

 
On Patreon

On Humans and how robot narratives are programmed for racism.

How to pass gun control.
 
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At the Verge I wrote about Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and police violence.

At Quartz I wrote about Cass Sunstein’s new book and whether Donald Trump can be impeached.

At Splice Today I wrote about:

—Ben Sasse, Pajama Boy and attacking Nazis by comparing them to Jews.

—Monkey Business, and being a screwball comedy after all the screwball comedies are gone.