The Hatred of Podcasting Shows like this have a flow that the listener doesn’t actually participate in—the hosts have gone home, you’re the only one in the room, and it’s a dead conversation that’s already happened—but, given the intimacy of how the product is consumed, can get the same psychic impression. On your commute, while […]
Category Archives: farce
Go home, Tilly
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Dear Tilly Norwood: Some Blunt Advice, Actress to “Actress,” From Betty Gilpin Tilly, you can not look up and become half of someone. Because you are no one.
the fascination index
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Jon Bois’ REFORM! Bois also criticizes the whole practice of pigeonholing voters into two established categories, of forcing people to have to reduce themselves, essentialize their political views. He criticizes the aforementioned political compass charts. It is reminiscent of Edouard Glissant’s idea of the ‘right to opacity.’ Bois destroys and humiliates this essentialization, this hijacking […]
Satire?
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
[An actual Christmas post] In Defense of Ebenezer Scrooge To the Dickens with Dickens.
Chilling (and not like a deli product)
Thursday, June 29, 2023
The Parable of the Turkey “How lucky we are,”
peak oil
Sunday, June 18, 2023
Collapse might be interesting to write about, if only everyone else wasn’t doing it. Hubbert’s Peak is Finally Here From here on out, just six counties in West Texas must meet all global demand growth. […] Using our neural network, we have updated our basin analysis, and the results are shocking. [This area] is likely […]
Raymond Zack
Saturday, November 20, 2021
“He uh… had the ability to make a bad decision and did.” “Yeahh-uh.” via Lefty Book Club Commentary with some more perspectives
Do not pass Go
Monday, November 8, 2021
Hey, i wrote something for another blog. Been participating in Lefty Book Club for a few weeks, with weekly assigned readings and group discussions over Zoom. In the subgroup i’ve been attending, we have read Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher and are now into Lost Connections by Johann Hari. Good books, good people, recommended for […]
shipping experts
Saturday, October 30, 2021
I’m A Twenty Year Truck Driver, I Will Tell You Why America’s “Shipping Crisis” Will Not End Nobody is compelling the transportation industries to make the needed changes to their infrastructure. There are no laws compelling them to hire the needed workers, or pay them a living wage, or improve working conditions. And nobody is […]
Behind every innovation, socialism
Saturday, November 23, 2019
This economist has a plan to fix capitalism. It’s time we all listened “It wasn’t just early research, it was also applied research, early stage finance, strategic procurement,” she says. “The more I looked, the more I realised: state investment is everywhere.”
