Through A Drain Darkly
The world sinks lower and deeper, and through a drain darkly it flows down an abyss of its own (vainglorious) making, every person an agent […]
BlacKkKlansman – Derivative And Reflexive
A dollop of preaching. The film won’t let go of the racial line, not even after having set up characters whose MO is post-racial […]
The Slough: Hydrolysis
The shock traveled down the noxious network all the way to the slimy pockets that […]
The Slough: Dead For A Long Time
Fueled by the destruction of others, by the rot in everything he embraces, he seeks out livelihoods, life to crush and […]
The Slough
The deadliest bogs reside in the past, they reach out to us from across the years and […]
Out Of The Woods
The rebel dreamed of spring and laughter, Parthenon and golden ratio, enterprise and seas of tea, an atom splintered, unveiled for all to […]
The War Of Our Everyday Lives
Shrapnel, it blasts through reveries and thoughts, splinters our dreams and fantasies, splinters our […]
The Traps Of Cultural Appropriation
The idea of cultural appropriation — as it operates — is a problem, an extreme for an extreme […]
Roused By Fear Of A Blank Planet
This album was responsible for lifting me from the dumps eleven years ago — rough, depressive, sharp as nails […]
On Joan Didion’s Democracy
This is a novel, not a memoir, and yet, like in much of Didion’s work, she inserts herself in the narrative, can be heard over […]