Apophany #6: In the Shadow of Supersystems
OnI learned how to play poker younger than anybody should.
Category: Apophany
Apophany #5: Everything Brolic Melts Into Air
OnIt 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…
APOPHANY #4: Means Something To Me
OnI 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…
Apophany #3: A Team of Uncles and Cousins
OnThe Detroit Pistons are a team of uncles and cousins and they are in the playoffs.
APOPHANY #2- MEAN GIRLS AT THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION
OnSpoilers 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…
Apophany #1: Curtain Call at the Absolute Cinema
OnWhat Marvel using the “absolute cinema” meme means for film.
Apophany #0
OnAn 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.