Archive - disposition

Ambush Television

On March 6, 1995, thirty-two-year-old Scott Amedure and his friend Donna Riley arrived at NBC Tower in Chicago to tape an episode of Jenny Jones, a…

May 25, 2021

January 2021

on "promising young woman"

*****SOME MINOR SPOILERS***** There’s a scene about halfway through Promising Young Woman, the new film starring Carey Mulligan, that when it arrives it…

Jan 24, 2021

December 2020

A way of getting into the holiday spirit (but only if you want to)

Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special

Dec 22, 2020

October 2020

Of flies and men

VP debates, Louise Gluck

Oct 8, 2020

Please, accept these ramblings in lieu of something more substantial

"what are you going through?" | mariah carey rarities | "ratched"

Oct 6, 2020

August 2020

It's August and I'm Tired

Ready or Not, The Unreality of Memory

Aug 19, 2020

April 2018

REVIEW: "LOOK ALIVE OUT THERE" BY SLOANE CROSLEY

With her 2008 debut, I Was Told There’d Be Cake, Sloane Crosley established herself as a humorous essayist to be reckoned with, inviting comparisons to…

Apr 10, 2018

February 2018

Looking at the Obamas: On The Presidential Portraits

Portraits are a tricky subject. So much of what makes a portrait successful has to do with the interplay between viewer and subject. A portrait of…

Feb 13, 2018

August 2017

If this isn't the country you know, what country did you know? What did it look like to you last week, last month, last year, your whole life? I grew up…

Aug 16, 2017

This is my favorite song right now

This is my favorite song right now: JANAE: Why's it called Drew Barrymore? ME: Beats me, except she makes a cameo near the end of the video. Listen, you…

Aug 10, 2017

July 2017

Short essay on eating out

I do not enjoy eating in restaurants because I work in one and I cannot bear to participate in putting someone else through it. When I do eat out, I tip…

Jul 27, 2017

26. Some lame things that have already happened to me today and it's only ten am.

The Ancestors were speaking to me this morning, and they were saying, "Stay yo ass in bed, child." Mornings have always been a personal struggle. For…

Jul 18, 2017

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