Blog Posts on Unimportant Bird

Heath deaths, agrarian populists, and the end of a blogging institution.

Michael Lewis’s The Big Short is breaking my brain.

The platform is trapped in a prison created by its own awful policies.

It’s Robert Redford’s fault.

To succeed in this industry, first delete your higher cortical functions.

Some lessons learned.

I’m happy it survives.

It’s been updated.

Letter from an ICE jail.

Let’s not emulate Charlie Kirk, thanks.

AI as a failed technology.

bird comic by Ruby Carter is quite good.

Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Far-right moral panics.

The political emptiness of abundance.

A must-read interview with Mahmoud Khalil.

More notes on Joan Didion’s Political Fictions (2001)

Buc-ee’s.

Hotel workers strike.

He’s a conservative intellectual trapped in an enemies-to-lovers arc with liberalism.

Gilding the White House.

But criticism is alive?

I can’t tell if this is coherent but it’s been on my mind.

Someone please let me know.

Political Fictions (2001)

On the perceptual experience of link rot.

On the unforgiving economics of making comics—and cartoonists’ efforts to change them—in the wake of #ComicsBrokeMe

It’s difficult to articulate what gets lost.

Political Fictions (2001)

This is kind of a film review but also just a rant.

It’s pointless.

I’m not sure it’s possible to come up with a worse idea.

A few notes on writing good.

The methods have changed.

A review of Do a Powerbomb!

Anyone, as long as they don’t work at Politico.

I know there’s a lot going on but there always is.

No one needed to see Art Spiegelman step on a rake.

Welcome to the nightmare realm.

Searching for a new house causes enough psychic damage already thank you.

Kindly shut the fuck up.

Some notes about two films: One earnest, one cynical.

I think we’re about to find out.

The Fountainhead is silly.

At the end of the day, reporters need to file stories.

Please make your own website!