PinnedClaire Fishman 🌸What Are You Drinking?: A Swan Song for AlcoholI’m sitting at the bar with some new friends. There’s four football games on and I’m not paying attention to any of them. The girl I’ve…Dec 2, 20191Dec 2, 20191
Claire Fishman 🌸Baby’s First Rock Opera: Revisiting Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’It’s astonishing to see not just how well it holds up sonically, but also how discreetly formative it was to my taste in music.Jan 8Jan 8
Claire Fishman 🌸How Color Theory Codifies Item Quality in Video GamesEven if you don’t play games as much as I do, you might still recognize the weight of the items, because of how we conceptualize colors.Feb 17, 2022Feb 17, 2022
Claire Fishman 🌸Who Killed Hannibal: How Cyberpunk 2077 Disobeyed Its Own RulesCyberpunk 2077 betrays its own narrative design and then blames you for not being clever enough to figure it out.Mar 9, 2021Mar 9, 2021
Claire Fishman 🌸If Nostradamus Had a Blog: How Tumblr Predicted 2020, and How It Can Be ExplainedCould the Internet have been collectively pistol-whipped into augury by Apollo? Should we actually believe in prophecy?Dec 28, 2020Dec 28, 2020
Claire Fishman 🌸Anxiety Makes Me Feel Like an IdiotLately I’ve been feeling like a certified dumbass.Feb 28, 2020Feb 28, 2020
Claire Fishman 🌸Giving Up Control: My First Six Months Living with an Autoimmune DiseaseThis was — and I truly mean this with no sarcasm — a banner year. I moved into my own apartment (yay, no roommate), I started a staff…Nov 4, 2019Nov 4, 2019
Claire Fishman 🌸In a Post-Weinstein World, Silence Isn’t the Way to Fight ViolenceA few weeks back, several actresses (including Meryl Streep) announced they would be attending the 2018 Golden Globes dressed in all black…Dec 22, 20171Dec 22, 20171
Claire Fishman 🌸inApplaudienceDo Judge a Film by its Trailer: A Response to the ‘Patriots Day’ MessageI try my best to avoid movie trailers. On principle, the whole concept is spoiler-central; the trailer is meant to excite the moviegoer…Jan 11, 20171Jan 11, 20171
