There is joy in efficient resource usage, like how I tie together this monstrously long essay with the thinnest of critical through-lines.

There’s more to it than Eyes Wide Shut. Let’s tell ourselves that.

Even the ones that are good.

Music school wasn’t about how to make music good. That part was, perhaps wrongly, assumed. No, music school is where you figure out whether music should be good. And that’s where it starts to get bad.

White men, take heed: home-made charcuterie is ok, statutory rape is not. Pretty simple.

After he sold Street Sharks, but before he appeared in a poster on my bathroom wall, Vin Diesel made a biopic about a hero mobster who rejects free legal advice from Peter Dinklage.

White men in the mid-20th century wrote a lot of books about their dicks! That got published and celebrated! Today, those guys write for tv.