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A Journey of Infinite Understanding

As is the case with many twenty-something white men of a certain demographic upbringing, I am thrilled announce that I have finished Infinite Jest. (Crowd erupts in applause) As is the case with at least some of my compatriots I’m sure, I began reading it with some apprehension. There’s the obvious obstacle of steeling yourself…

A Star Wars Retrospective, kind of

Edit: I’m realizing that the first entry took me a lot longer than I thought it would, so I’m going to make this an ongoing piece that I can (hopefully) contribute to regularly until I have a fully fleshed Opinion about Star Wars in its entirety. So this is a “retrospective” on Star Wars, a…

EEAAO Oscar hangover

Yesterday, kittencabal send me a really good article by Haley Nahman, who writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby and who seems very cool. The article was about EEAAO and the reignited debate over the film’s critical legitimacy in the wake of its Oscar sweep. I responded to Gia with an email that, in retrospect, was…

Notes from the senso tank

While enjoying the muted pleasures of a sensory deprivation tank last weekend, I began to understand Skinamarink a bit better. In the moist air of this cocoon, I became almost convinced in a half-dream that Kyle Edward Ball had himself conceived of his film while doing the exact same thing. This kind of device is…

Don’t worry darling, they’re called “inspirations”

The most original part of Don’t Worry Darling is that an accomplished surgeon working overtime is living in squalor with some dingy apartment and no hot water. *in Dr. Oz voice* we’ve got Joe Biden to thank for this. That’s what you get for living in New York I guess… Probably one of the more…

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