Oct 28, 2022Member-onlyEllie Friar and the Triumph of DeathThis essay contains detailed discussion of murder and CSA. Nuclear Warhead, Ready to Strike… The best movie I have seen this year was not really a movie, nor was it exactly good. It was a three and a half hour YouTube video with the almost-embarrassingly clickbaity title of The Craziest Interrogation You’ll Ever See. It’s…True Crime13 min readTrue Crime13 min read
Aug 22, 2021Member-onlyInside the Memory CardMy father’s ghost is haunting an Animal Crossing village. Fifteen years ago, you could not save video games to the cloud: you kept the ones you liked on a memory card, and sometimes, when that card ran out of space and you couldn’t afford to buy another one, some of…Mwc Reentry14 min readMwc Reentry14 min read
Aug 8, 2021Member-onlyLife Lessons from GanondorfThere is no practical reason anyone should ever be able to win a one-on-one fight playing as Ganondorf in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. He is a disastrously slow character in a game centered around mobility, he has no defense against ranged attacks except to pray that his basic block will…Gaming3 min readGaming3 min read
May 12, 2021Member-onlyI Read 350 Pages of Conspiracy Theories in 3 Days. Here’s What I LearnedEver since the assassination of JFK, Texas has been prime real estate for plots, ponderings, and general hokum, so I was not surprised to find what I hoped would be my new favorite book wasting away in a Houston antique store. The Conspiracy Reader is an anthology of articles from…Politics9 min readPolitics9 min read
Mar 9, 2021Member-onlyA Grief Observed in TexasContrary to observation, Texas has not thawed out. Hundreds of thousands of people still do not have clean water to drink. While power has been restored to most, an affordable bill is far from guaranteed in many parts of the state, and infrastructural necessities from water mains to power lines…Politics4 min readPolitics4 min read
Jan 28, 2021Member-onlyYou Fucking People Make Me SickYou may have noticed that I haven’t published very much over the past year. The pandemic has made many things that were easy difficult and things that were difficult next to impossible. Writing is among these things for many people, myself included; entering the second year of being trapped indoors…Health5 min readHealth5 min read
Sep 18, 2020Member-onlyYou Are Not an Employee and Games Are Not Your JobI have two devices on which I play video games: a Nintendo Switch and a low-to-moderately powerful laptop. This puts me in the privileged position of being a gamer who is able to keep up with modern trends from the relative safety of machines that couldn’t run most big-budget AAA…Gaming10 min readGaming10 min read
Jan 28, 2020Member-onlyCritiquing Bernie Sanders Isn’t the Same as Betraying HimI didn’t have anywhere to live during the 2016 primaries, but if I’d had a permanent place of residence I would’ve definitely cast my vote for Bernie Sanders. I intend to make the same decision in 2020; I’ve been a type 1 diabetic since I was a year old, and…Politics5 min readPolitics5 min read
Published inHuman Parts·Oct 19, 2019Member-onlyHow Should You Talk to God?Notes from a neophyte spiritualist — I shall have to train my senses, make them at once stronger and more delicate, at one moment tough, at another fragile; in a word, more lucid. I shall hear with my sense of sight and with my skin; I shall cover myself with eyes. Everything, even judgment, will be…Religion13 min readReligion13 min read
Sep 20, 2019Member-onlyThe Media is Fucking Up the 6ix9ine StoryI’m working on a much longer piece about 6ix9ine right now, but I wanted to take a break from that project to briefly discuss something about recent developments in the Daniel Hernandez/6ix9ine case. …Journalism3 min readJournalism3 min read