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The Future is a Little Lonely: Marc Rebillet’s Drive-in Concert
We’re in a strange time right now. I realize that might be the most mind-numbingly obvious thing you’ve ever read but I’m also sure it’s something you’ve said at least once to someone in your life in the last week, or it was said to you. Because it’s an all-over kind of strangeness we’re dealing with right now, it is far more than one thing. It feels as though almost everything about modern American society is in flux. There’s been the COVID-19 pandemic (duh) and the quarantine that followed, bringing nearly everyone’s life to a more noticeable halt than anything in the last fifty years. Unless you’re an essential worker…
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The Great, and Its Many Reflections on Power
So I’m going to begin this article today with a somewhat embarrassing admission. You know that famous Oscar Wilde quote: “Everything in the world is about sex except for sex. Sex is about power“? While I’d always found that quote funny and useful (acknowledging that it may be something Oscar Wilde never said), I don’t believe I ever fully understood what it was getting at until I was most of the way through binge-watching the first season of Hulu’s The Great this weekend. You see, I’d always thought it was about lust as motivation and the way in which lust can transform and curdle. Or, to put it more directly…
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Apologies
This is simply a quick message to apologize for the lack of new posts both last Wednesday and today. I was at the BLM protests last week and didn’t have the time to write an article I felt was worth the time you would have taken to read it. Then, yesterday, a family tragedy occurred that is honestly still fucking with me in a major way. And once again I do not have either the time or (more importantly in this case) the mental energy to create an article that is worth your own time and effort in reading it. I apologize for this gap and promise a new article…
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