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Tech Is Not The Enemy
It’s such a common refrain that it’s hardly ever questioned: Technology is the enemy of the outdoors. If you give a kid a smartphone, the kid will stay in their […]
Hemingway and Bulwer-Lytton
It’s one of the most entrenched rules of 20th and 21st-century writing: The fewer words you use, the better. Terse prose is good prose, so common wisdom goes; stripping words […]
Cats and Women
Considering how many cat photos there are, the internet sure hates cats. “Cats are evil” and “I hate cats” are common attitudes that rarely face any pushback; even among cat […]
Goodbye, Astronomer: The Symbolism of Stars in Night in the Woods
This post contains major spoilers for Night in the Woods. It’s easy to see why 2017’s indie adventure game Night in the Woods is going down as one of the best […]
Cyberpunk and the Failed Vision of Virtual Reality
Cyberpunk is a genre that never quite made it in the mainstream. After its brief day in the sun in the 80s, it fell by the wayside and was eclipsed […]
Guest Post Round-Up
It’s that time again: Let’s see what I’ve been talking doing around the web. Back in November on YA Wednesdays, I shared my Veteran’s Day reading list rounding up my […]
Sanatoria
When I’m sick I always find myself thinking about our society’s attitudes towards illness and the treatment thereof. Much has changed over the past century. The 1920s and early 1930s […]
Experience
I was out herping with a local old-timer, looping side-blotched lizards with dental-floss slipknots. Our goal was to capture at least three males. We captured seven lizards, all female. Some […]
How Auteur Theory Protects Abusers
In the midst of the current purge of sexual harassers from Hollywood, a few people have noticed a glaring exception: Why has Woody Allen escaped unscathed? He’s a known abuser […]