I don’t have a sports fan following. Mostly, my sports fandom feels tolerated. I try to act non-plussed and act like I don’t see numbers and track reactions (I do my damnedest to not pay attention), but the small patch of land…
Spoilers will follow for Red Rooms, which you should see before or after reading this. Has Pascal Plante seen The Scary of Sixty-First? That was my first question after finishing his great Red Rooms. This isn’t to diminish his achievement, his depiction…
An apophany is a singular instance of stumbling onto one of these meaningless connections between interconnected things, as opposed to an epiphany, where the connection is meaningful.
Kentucky Meat Shower #27 “Et In Golgotha Ego” is the conclusion of “A Prophet of His Own” arc, debuting on Kittysneezes. If you’re curious about what I mean by “arc” you can read more here. The first issue is here. The…
Kentucky Meat Shower #26 “Ceaseless Tides and Uneven Development” is the second of three issues in the “A Prophet of His Own” arc. If you are curious about what I mean by “arc”, you can read here. The first part of the trilogy is…
Issue #24 of Kentucky Meat Shower is the first of three issues in the “A Prophet of His Own” arc. For more information on what I mean by arc, follow the link here. I was one year into the best ones of…
Starting tomorrow, we’ll be officially publishing the first “arc” of Kentucky Meat Shower. “A Prophet of His Own” consists of three Kentucky Meat Shower issues. The first two issues, #24 and #26, have been published on Substack, and will be publishing…
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