Misery Movies: Episode 3 – Hard Candy
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In this episode of Misery Movies, we discuss the girl-power thriller/pedophile exploitation film Hard Candy. As usual, the discussion and reviews that comprise the first half of th
Routine Ghosts
My house is haunted; my life is haunted. I meet the same ghosts every day. I can’t avoid them, and I can’t exorcise them. They are stubborn and reliable creatures of habit, always
Misery Movies: Episode 2 – The Redemption of General Butt Naked
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In the second episode of Misery Movies, we discuss The Redemption of General Butt Naked, a documentary about one man’s journey from Liberian warlord to Evangelical preacher. As wi
Suicide of a Clinically Depressed Predictive Text Emulator
A few weeks ago, I transformed Jaime Brew’s predictive text emulator into a depressed, self-loathing wreck by feeding it a collection of posts from my personal tumblr. I then
Shame: A Party Game
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
– Genesis 3:7 (New Internatio
6 Ways to Live Like There’s No Tomorrow (And Loathe Every Second of It)
I am putting the finishing touches on this article at 5 pm EST on a Friday afternoon. It’s officially the weekend, and that can only mean one thing: a heightened risk of sudden
And John Adams Wrote …
In March of this year, while the Republican Primary was still ongoing, Mitt Romney gave a speech condemning Donald Trump and pleading with his party’s voters to select essentia
Misery Movies: Episode 1 – Careful
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This is the debut episode of our new Misery Tourism podcast, Misery Movies, a round-table discussion with a focus on films about human suffering. Each episode will feature a deep
The Comedy Beyond Hope
With apologies to Dante Alighieri, the saints, the penitent, and all of the damned.
I
Dante Dreams of a Return to Hell
Somewhere in his home in Florence there is a scrap of
Musings of a Clinically Depressed Predictive Text Emulator
Depression is programming. That’s what we mean when we say we suffer from learned helplessness or that we struggle with self-destructive behaviors: our lives have become trappe