The Performance of Understanding
Clay Morgan AkermanEssays about forgotten pop culture, identity as armor, and how a generation amputated their receptors for joy.
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The People Who Built the Cage
I watch a lot of bodycam footage. Traffic stops, courtroom cameras, the whole genre. It’s basically replaced film and television shows as my main form of entertainment. And a reliable subset of those videos involves the same recurring chara...
March Musings
So I've been doing a fair amount of writing lately but I'm not really pumping out the essays like I should. Lots of screenplay work and quick angry nervous notes that feel like they'll eventually turn into something real but never ever actu...
S. Craig Zahlers Mathematics Of Consequences
There is a type of film that serious critics have been demanding for decades. It is morally ambiguous. It refuses easy resolutions. It takes its time. Its characters speak in ways that reveal interiority rather than just advance the plot. I...
The Trojan Stallion: A Guide to the Music of Ween
There is a box that will be sitting on a shelf at a record shop next month, brown and unassuming, labeled simply The Brown Box. Inside it are ten CDs. Ten. And if you've never heard of Ween before, you might pick it up, squint at the track...
Feuding With A Ghost
George Takei gave an interview to The Guardian recently. The headline they ran with? "I've spent two minutes longer in zero gravity than Shatner." That's the pull quote. That's what they led with. And honestly, who can blame the editors, it...
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Cultural essays and film discussion. I'm not a "hot take" film critic. I'm a valence-based film defender. I evaluate films by honesty of construction, not by believability of illusion.
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