The phantom
On the Harper's letter and what happened to me in July
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The Little Guy, or: On the pleasures of watching Jason Schwartzman in Fargo
by Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Why I love Nancy from Stranger Things
Would you believe it has something to do with gender dysphoria?
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and the limits of Aaron Sorkin's imagination
Twilight of the elites
The only time the Oscars ended early
At least on TV
Six of Swords
I turned around. There was nothing there.
I am an artistic genius, and my medium is custom-designed plaques
How I forged a life-long friendship and weirded out the customer service representatives of Plaquemaker dot com, one plaque at a time
White babies
Or how a 4Chan shitpost continues to haunt me
Why Hayao Miyazaki and David Lynch excel at dream logic
And very few of their imitators do
Wheel of fortune
A story
Have I mentioned how much I don't like Sherlock?
On TV shows that want you to think you're smart just for watching them
The surprisingly similar arc of sitcoms about aliens
Why do most sitcoms about aliens start out as hits, then get canceled after season four?