On Patreon
I’m hoping to do a Twin Peaks rewatch, if I get enough support. I discussed the project here.
I wrote about Alice Guy-Blaché’s The Cabbage Fairy, sometimes cited as the first narrative film, and unnatural or natural birth.
A little outline of a longer essay on Guy-Blaché.
Utilitarians Everywhere
At Quartz I wrote about how fascism doesn’t make great art.
At Splice Today I wrote about:
—freelance panic for the holidays.
—Penelope Spheeris’ Decline of Western Civilization and why punk isn’t just for the misogynists.
—how Jacobin should give up the celebrity-obsessed identity politics and focus on class analysis.
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I see from Comics Reporter that HG Peter is being inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame. Finally — middle-brow respectability!
hah; yes, his time has come! (I wonder if the Jill Lepore book was a factor…?)