a grackle

New posts every Wednesday (because I need a deadline) and also whenever I feel like it (because deadlines suck). If you’re new here, you might start by reading my little mission statement about why this site exists (or don’t, I’m not here to tell you how to browse the web).


Posts

9 Jul 2025

Another marginal note on Joan Didion

Political Fictions (2001)

2 Jul 2025

The internet is ugly when it falls apart

On the perceptual experience of link rot.

1 Jul 2025

Comics won't just break your heart

On the unforgiving economics of making comics—and cartoonists’ efforts to change them—in the wake of #ComicsBrokeMe

25 Jun 2025

I leave pieces of myself behind

It’s difficult to articulate what gets lost.

22 Jun 2025

A marginal note on Joan Didion

Political Fictions (2001)

18 Jun 2025

'Raid of the Rainbow Lounge' is still relevant

This is kind of a film review but also just a rant.

4 Jun 2025

What use is obsessive journaling?

It’s pointless. I love it and can’t live without it.

28 May 2025

Kamala Harris and the burden of Fortnite

I’m not sure it’s possible to come up with a worse idea.

21 May 2025

Sometimes I turn incoherent thoughts into something like gold

A few notes on writing good.

1 May 2025

Five hundred years of bureaucratic violence

The methods have changed. The cruel essence remains.

9 Apr 2025

This comic is a glorious mess

A review of Do a Powerbomb! by Daniel Warren Johnson.

2 Apr 2025

Who gets to decide what 'real democracy' is?

Anyone, as long as they don’t work at Politico.

1 Apr 2025

Write about whatever you want

I know there’s a lot going on but there always is.

10 Mar 2025

I can’t stop thinking about how vapid this comic was

No one needed to see Art Spiegelman step on a rake.

7 Mar 2025

A short history of fast food brands posting on Twitter

Welcome to the nightmare realm.

6 Mar 2025

POV: Your future landlord is a robot

Searching for a new house causes enough psychic damage already thank you.

5 Mar 2025

Do you have more of a comment than a question?

Kindly shut the fuck up.

4 Mar 2025

It feels strange to review something that destroys you

Some notes about two films: One earnest, one cynical.

17 Feb 2025

What could be more post-truth than this?

I think we’re about to find out.

30 Jan 2025

She is only capable of writing strawmen

The Fountainhead is silly.