Patreon

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.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

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.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

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.

 
News/Begging

So my little ebook on women film directors still doesn’t have any reviews. If you’re one of the twelve people who read it, consider posting a few words to say how you did or didn’t like it? Crowdsource your inner essence, while joining my tremulous marketing process!
 
Patreon
 

For Patrons I wrote about Inglourious Basterds and Holocaust denial.

I argued that voting rights should be the Democrat’s top priority—yes, even before health care.

Utilitarians Everywhere

At A Beautiful Perspective I wrote about SWOP Behind Bars’ program to get cell phones to incarcerated sex workers on their release.

At Bandcamp, I wrote

—Blood Drive and the bloody intestines of quality television.

—a list of bands influenced by the music of Ennio Morricone

At Splice Today I wrote about

—how The Girl from Hanoi shows that all American war films are imperialist.

—the fantastic music YouTube channel Vinyl Reincarnation.

—about an amazing album of music for 80s Japanese commercials by Yasuaki Shimizu.
 

News

Steven Grant, comics writer, provided a nice blurb for my book Your Favorite Superhero Sucks.
 
On Patreon

Murakami vs. Pollock for title of avant gardiest.

The left shouldn’t define itself in opposition to Democrats. (and vice versa)
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Splice Today I wrote about:

—Robert Altman’s Mash and the confused idea that misogyny will overthrow the status quo.

—drone artist Saito Koji and the album that wasn’t there.

 
Patreon

On Angela Nagle’s excellent critique of counter-culture misogyny and how her book does the exact thing she decries.

I explained why the term alt left is bad and should be avoided.

On the Hooded Utilitarian

Somewhat randomly, we had a couple posts on HU for various reasons.

Nix on what Meghan Murphy doesn’t get about feminism and sex work.

Paul Austin on Television’s great forgotten album.

 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Quartz I wrote about:

—how the ACLU shouldn’t defend fascists.

—Atypical and how autism is used in the media to excuse sexism.

At Playboy I interviewed N.K. Jemisin about her book the Stone Sky, racism, and apocalypse.

At the Verge I wrote about the goofy original Defenders comics, which are not much like the television show.

At the Reader I wrote about the Scorched Tundra metal festival.

On Splice Today I wrote about:

—Eastern Condors, a Honk Kong Vietnam picture which makes all other Vietnam pictures look like half-assed messes too.

—how Facebook is so cheery it depresses me.

—how the left is pretty unified, relatively.

At Bandcamp I reviewed a new drone/spoken word album from Heinali and Matt Finney.