The Smiling Skull

Extracted from This is Not a Comedy Special

Let’s talk about us for a second. And not us in the sense of our egos and personalities and opinions. Not us in the sense of ourselves and the mental constructions and narratives pertaining to those selves. But us in the physical, the biological. The us beneath our fleshy groomed exterior. The bones of us. The skeleton head. The lifeless human-shaped reaper we all forget is there, propped up behind our eyes like some kind of inanimate stranger assigned to carry our lips through life. Let’s talk about the actual thing of us…

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Finding Your Way into an Idea Is Like Falling Asleep

Short Essay | August 21, 2024

Fellini once described the creative process as trying to recall a dream. Visual bits and emotional fragments hang on the tip of the mind in clouded form, shifting in and out of clarity. Well, what if it was the inverse for those who are trying to enter a dream? What if the resonation with a piece of art, the finding of one’s own way into its ideas, and the forming of a genuine connection with the piece, what if this was just like trying to fall asleep?

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A Crisis of Consciousness

Prose | July 10, 2024

I kind of just stand there, motionless, tongue half-out of a head half-inside the cold fluorescent coffin-shaped box which predates me in this house by a comfortable margin. Behind my dead unblinking eyes a brain simultaneously tries to decide what it is I feel like and what it is I have the motivation to make. But I’m also not really thinking about anything. I’m not even looking inside the fridge. My head just sort of leans up against the side of the door as I gaze out into the middle distance of the kitchen, frozen in the moment…

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Art To Activism, This Is The Blueprint and Boy Is It Deeply Moving.

Hector Wright | Film Rec’s | November 14, 2024

Subverted expectations through a frantic Mexican stand-off set at what feels like the edge of the world. This small gem of a film flew somewhat under the radar following its release in 2023, but that seems like a highly unjustified reaction to The Last Stop in Yuma County…

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A Lesson in Driving Me Absolutely Fucking Mental

Prose | June 15, 2024

And so he wears this little like dress thing, or whatwouldja call it, a hooded cloak or a cape sort of thing with his nails all painted and his lips stapled and his eyes blackened goin round the house callin himself the fuckin Grim Soul Eater or somethin. Now is that normal like? To be doin that? Lad his age? Could that be considered — second gear — by you now to be a normal aul thing? And be honest…

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