The Daughters of Frankenstein
What do we owe ourselves? What do we owe our art?
Living in Public and Other Modern Agonies
On growing up online and being an adult in an age of horrors.
Constructed Realities Part II
Or: Angela Orosco is Babygirl
Constructed Realities Part I
Or: Monika and Maria Did Nothing Wrong
Some Strange Things You Should Watch for Halloween
20 short weird, scary, funny, and surreal films you can watch right now.
Barbed Wire, Sharp Teeth, and David Lynch's Rabbits
When I was twenty-four, maybe twenty-five, I was standing in the shower and washing my hair one day. This would have been 2010 or 2011. I don't remember...
Three Books About Destroying a Body
UFO Mushroom Invasion by Shirakawa Marina In the final pages of Shirakawa Marina's 1976 manga UFO Mushroom Invasion, humanity's domination of the natural...
Androids Dreaming at the Bottom of the World
Pinocchio and The Fairy With Turquoise Hair Then there appeared at the door a beautiful Baby with blue hair and a white face, like a waxen image, with her...
Finding God in Miami and Other Stories
I had a religious experience once. Well, I guess that's kind of overselling it. It wasn't in a church or a temple because I don't really believe in that sort...
Tomie Kawakami and Her Cordycep Children
The more time I spend with Tomie by Junji Ito, the more I think she's my favorite monster. Perhaps, upon completing my recent reread of the dense collection...
Some Strange Things You Can Watch Right Now
I've been trying to be better about watching short films. You could call that my resolution for 2025, I guess, one of four or five vague pacts made quietly...
The Boy Was Never Really There
There's a scene from this movie that kind of lives rent-free in my brain. A boy, fair and slim, wanders the rainy street at night. The city breathes around...
Three More Stories Living Rent-free in My Head
I find myself thinking a lot about perception. Maybe that sounds too abstract. Too big to tackle. Too complicated a thing to unpack in a few words. All of...
Here Are Some Video Essays I Love
It's important to understand that I watch a lot of YouTube. I mean, a lot of YouTube. I watch YouTube videos the way other people watch television. I watch...
I think you should quit
I think you should quit. I do. Quit writing the book. Quit drawing and cartooning. Quit painting. Quit designing. There's dignity in quitting while you're...
This Is (Not) A Ghost Story
I don't put much stock in dreams. When it comes to things like that, I'm kind of an agnostic. There are things that have happened in my life that feel like...
We Wander the Newmaker Plane
I talk about the uneasy nostalgia of 90s games and internet horror that still unsettles me today. Also, I finally talk about Petscop.
I Grieve in Stereo
I grieve in stereoThe stereo sounds strangeYou know that if it hidesIt doesn't go awayWhen I get out of bedYou’ll see me standingAll alone, horrifiedOn the...
Where We Go When We Go
The middle of the year snuck up on me in a way that I didn't expect. That's on me. One moment, it was March and I was just beginning to warm up after a...
We Have to Talk About Jotaro Kujo
Let's get one thing clear right away: Jotaro Kujo is not the best JoJo, but he is the best character in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, the long-running manga by...