Slow Ride, Take It Easy

As 2024 draws to a close, I’m really running out of steam. A while back, I wrote about how blogging so regularly was becoming exhausting. Well, since then I’ve only posted more. I’m up to 20–23 posts per month lately. It’s become too much of a chore to meet the weekly and monthly goals I … Continue reading Slow Ride, Take It Easy →

Feeding the Beast

By my count, I’ve managed to have double digit posts here every single month since the fall of 2022. For most of the last year, to year-and-a-half, I’ve averaged around seventeen or eighteen posts per month. I can’t overestimate how shocking this is to me. Before that, I always struggled to get even six or … Continue reading Feeding the Beast →

Just Looking

In early October of 2020, less than six months into the existence of this blog, I created a post on Body Double that stood out from a lot of what I’d been doing here. That’s because it only had some brief introductory text and was largely comprised of screenshots from Brian De Palma’s sexually charged … Continue reading Just Looking →

Is This Thing On?

Ever feel a bit like Susie Diamond the first time she takes the stage with the Fabulous Baker Boys? You know, when she forgets to flip the switch on the microphone and no one in the audience hears her—until she turns on the mic just as she answers Frank Baker in frustration, “What fucking switch?!” … Continue reading Is This Thing On? →

The Writing is the Juice

“Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.”Patti Smith, Just Kids The writers who've inspired me the most over the years share a knack for expressing complex, often-conflicting feelings in potent, artful prose that captures my own complex, often-conflicting feelings. Writers like Joan Didion, Lester Bangs, … Continue reading The Writing is the Juice →