Seventeen years have passed since my last installment in this series, so let’s at last sit down and write some…
DIY Geek Cinema
For a long time I’ve held an ambiguous attitude toward geek culture, and ultra-fandom. On the one hand, it’s painfully…
A Mad Tea-Party: An Essay-Collage
[The following is a talk I gave at Buzzer Thirty in Queens for an exhibition called “…no right to assume…
Art as Inheritance, part 1: That Lingering Smile
This will be something of a long and meandering trip, only to wind up back where we started. But I…
Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies (Those Avant-Garde Harbingers of Mainstream Superheroes, School Plays, and the Willful Embrace of Nostalgia)
In my last post in this series, I embedded and linked to every single music video I know that uses…