As a tragically online person, I don't know whether the relatively well-adjusted and offline among us have heard the rumor that Trump is already dead, or at least on death's door. I do know, however, that it's been all over Bluesky and TikTok. This
Nitrate Fires
Of the great symbols of the American Century, there are, to my mind, three that predominate: Mickey Mouse, Coca-Cola and Superman. All three with an undeniable and immediate iconicity, recognizable from silhouette, slogan, font or color palette alone, they represent an American mass-culture at ease with its benevolent corporate purveyors,
Podcasts
I know what you're thinking: I just don't have enough of Vicky's voice in my life. Sure, she posts like a madwoman on various social networks but that's just not enough, I want her long-form talking points and I want them NOW!
A kind of absurdist fatalism has taken over discussion of "the current moment". In the last 22 months of genocide and reenergized fascism, the simple question "how are you?" has gone from almost dreadfully inappropriate, to a bit of a comic punchline in and of itself,
They call us crazy, criminals, perverts. Yes! Yes! A million times yes! Better madness than to be sane in this world of theirs! Better raving odes to whoring stealing and sleeping-in than Solomonic wisdom where bombs are safety and starving children needful justice. Better we inject ourselves with hormones made
Podcasts
Dearest CAW fam, I've been largely absent here lately as I finish up a few massive projects (including my final book edits! wooo! The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World out next Spring!) while simultaneously being in LETS FUCKING GOOOO mode thanks
Before the 1950s, films were printed and distributed on strips of nitrate cellulose, a transparent material used industrially as a substitute for gunpowder. Nitrate film was extremely flammable. Because nitrate cellulose contains oxygen, the fires it causes are impossible to extinguish. Nitrate Fires is our next offering. It will be
Hello my beautiful friends, It is finally happening. This blog is going to be absorbed, Blob style, by our collective effort, CAW. As noted before, you don't have to do anything: if you are a paying subscriber here, you will remain a paying subscriber there at the same
When Gaius Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River and entered the territory of Rome at the head of one of his Gallic legions, in 49 BC, he officially violated Roman sovereignty, broke the imperium, and began the civil war that would lead to the final collapse of the Roman Republic.
Or, our enemy confuses the map for the terrain
Good morning sports fans! It's a great day for us sports lovers, at least if you're a total sicko like me and your preferred sport is line-go-down. Because, thanks to Trump's tariffs, the markets are absolutely on fire. For just one example: Bloomberg is
Yesterday, on March 31, Beijing announced that China, Japan and South Korea would pursue a collaborative strategy to respond to US tariffs. It can be hard, during the rapid-fire changes of the global far right power grab, to reflect on just how unimaginable a strategic anti-US economic alliance between those