Would definitely pre-order a book by a prominent East Coast media figure who blew up their lives, retreated to the MS Gulf Coast, and immersed themselves in Biloxi Shuckers fandom for a year.

This revelation that you do not already own a theremin is frankly shocking.

This sucks, Shawn. Sorry to hear it.

I have been dreading the inevitable deluge of soft-focus profiles of JD as he humbly prepares to meet the moment or whatever.

Thanks!

Also my first experience writing something that the Disney lawyers had to approve.

Some great comics here, including the 2009-2010 DOMINIC FORTUNE miniseries about a cabal of bigoted plutocrats and clownish zealots who try to overthrow the US government. Prescient or just evergreen? You make the call!

The profile of “an artist exploring the new frontier of human-machine collaboration,” the wistful first-person literary essay about the writer’s mildly disorienting and somewhat dispiriting but ultimately bracing and useful week with ChatGPT

This is the most disturbing aesthetic evolution of my central point in “About Face”: the mainstreaming of fascist & paramilitary presence through its aesthetic in consumer goods, AKA white men with no real sense of self buying adjacency to violent authoritarian power. 🤮 popula.com/2019/02/24/a...

Shameless plug: Veitch and I talk about that run (both the thematic and business angles) in our interview in CONVERSATIONS WITH RICK VEITCH, out this month!