imaxafterlifeThe Capitol insurrection is based on the 1996 Chris Farley comedy Black Sheep“This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous…Jul 14, 2021Jul 14, 2021
imaxafterlifeOh Baby Let The Bad Times Roll: The Offspring and Historical Materialism, 1984-2021This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single…Apr 17, 2021Apr 17, 2021
imaxafterlifeOne Giant Bloodstain“After twenty years, 12,000 pages, a National Book Award, and some low-level Nobel Prize chatter, the legend of William T. Vollmann has…Jun 25, 2020Jun 25, 2020
imaxafterlifePicking the Best Mass to Stream in 2020“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” - Matthew 18:20Apr 3, 2020Apr 3, 2020
imaxafterlifeEvery Attempt at Immortality Will Fail[note: this piece contains plot details of Don Hertzfeldt’s two World of Tomorrow short films, both of which are excellent and worth…Mar 30, 2020Mar 30, 2020
imaxafterlifeStarted From the Bottom, Now We’re Racist: Notre Dame’s New Hype VideoI’ve written about the University of Notre Dame several times before, and one common through-line in all of those pieces is the sense of…Sep 15, 2019Sep 15, 2019
imaxafterlifeRevisiting Jeff Newsroom’s Dumbass Primary Debate“What does God’s voice sound like?”Aug 26, 2019Aug 26, 2019
imaxafterlifeAre Your Baby’s Picture Books Socialist Enough?It did not take becoming a father for me to fall in love with children’s literature. I’m the son of a school librarian and the husband of…Aug 19, 2019Aug 19, 2019
imaxafterlifeCatholicism, White Supremacy, and Your Changing Body (of Christ)On August 6th, the Archbishop of San Antonio, Gustavo Garcia-Siller, responded directly to a tweet from the President of the United States…Aug 12, 2019Aug 12, 2019
imaxafterlifeAbolish Priests On Twitter[a note on content: this piece discusses the ongoing sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic church]Jun 6, 2019Jun 6, 2019