All Things To All People
An apophany is defined as a moment where someone sees a connection that doesn’t literally exist. This is a column about the connections between literality. I’ll give you the facts first. On 4/21/2025, my partner made a post about rock band Twenty-One…
This is the closest I will get to a public anti-AI screed. Here it goes: generative artificial intelligence could never come up with Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Hollywood Africans. You would ask it to make a picture that depicts three black men thinking about…
I learned how to play poker younger than anybody should.
It was a Tuesday or Wednesday a couple months ago when I opened Spotify at work. EBK Jaaybo, a rapper from Stockton, California probably best known for the song and certified heater “Boogieman”– any song where a guy brags about dropping a…
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…
The Detroit Pistons are a team of uncles and cousins and they are in the playoffs.
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…
What Marvel using the “absolute cinema” meme means for film.
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…