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“Shit. I know shit’s bad right now with all that starving bullshit, and the dust storms, and we’re running out of French fries and burrito coverings, but I got a solution” - Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in Idiocracy (2006) We’re nearing the 250th anniversary of the
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Prior to the violence in Belfast this week, a flyer circulated all across Northern Irish social media and in group chats, which identified 26 “road closures.” The flyer, which appears AI-generated due to the watermark “Dola AI” (likely referencing the international version of ByteDance’s Chinese AI app, Doubao,
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The Backrooms (2026) has real script problems, but its concept is interesting enough to warrant some analysis. Using Frentz and Rushing's reading of Jaws as a framework, this post argues for Clark as Quint and discusses the film's inversion of the hunter myth's "sacred marriage."
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Season two of Severance and Squid Game built on the anti-capitalist critique of their first seasons, but in vastly different directions. This post explores how they diverge.
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This post is a companion piece for a paper I presented on an archive at UGA.
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This post is a companion piece for a paper I presented on player protest in World of Warcraft.
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This post explores US policy towards Iran through the lenses of the idiot plot, madman theory, and theories of American executive power.
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The White House has been gloating through montage videos after striking Iran. This post disentangles some of the meaning-making involved in the properties they are posting.
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This blog post is a companion piece for a paper I presented at a conference in February (which I am working to publish in a journal in the coming year). Nostalgia is a contested space, including in and around World of Warcraft, a video game that has been running for
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Trump’s federal agencies love putting catchy songs alongside their content on social media. While they usually post pop songs, phonk edits, or whatever viral sound is hitting on TikTok six months prior, on January 9, the DHS and ICE jointly posted an ICE recruitment image on Instagram with a
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Hayley Williams's "True Believer" performance on Jimmy Fallon's show was a force. This last of several essays examines some of Williams's laments and hopes for the South.
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Hayley Williams's "True Believer" performance on Jimmy Fallon's show was a force. This third of several essays examines some of Williams's laments and hopes for Nashville.