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Denis Johnson’s Desperate, Poetic Horrors
1+ hour, 57+ min ago (251+ words) Just to sketch out the last four years'broke, lost, detox, homeless in Texas, shot in the ribs by a thirty-eight, mooching off the charity of Dad in Ukiah, detox again, run over (I think, I'm pretty sure, I can't remember)…...
“The Chair Company” Is a Horror Show About The Workplace
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (1215+ words) Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin's new show is distinctly more surreal and uncanny than Severance. I spend most of my day at work looking at a computer screen. I'm doing it right now as I write this. I dodge out…...
Netflix’s Long Story Short Reinvents the Family Sitcom
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (1799+ words) One of my favorite performances in TV history is Daniel Stern's in The Wonder Years. If you're not familiar, The Wonder Years was a single-camera coming-of-age sitcom that aired on ABC from 1988 to 1993. The show's hero, Kevin Arnold'the youngest son…...
White House Rages After South Park Episode of Trump Seducing Satan
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (1725+ words) South Park's latest episode parodied Donald Trump as a vain, thin-skinned bully. In a splenetic statement responding to the portrayal, the White House did nothing to dispel that description. White House assistant press secretary Taylor Rogers on Thursday bashed the…...
Lena Dunham’s “Too Much” Is Exactly Enough
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (1836+ words) What even was Girls? One of the features that notoriously distinguishes online writing about art and culture is its speed. In comparison to the kinds of slow, roiling debates among public intellectuals of previous eras, today's discourse explodes in enlivening…...
Who Said It: Homer Simpson or Pete Hegseth?
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (89+ words) Homer Simpson, despite his many flaws, wants to do right by his family and'with the possible exception of his do-gooder neighbor Ned Flanders'his community. In this sense, he has little in common with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, a Christian…...