Projects

• Preparing dissertation for defense.
• Designing personal website and teaching portfolio.
• Developing short horror visual novel project.

Reading

• Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti
• The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. Mearsheimer

Playing

• Pathologic 3
• The House in Fata Morgana
• The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-

Listening

• 2026-04: APRIL (Apple Music Playlist)
  • I have about ten plus years of playlists (one per month, without missing one!).
• THE BEST ONES
  • A personal, long-running playlist of my favorite songs.

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Recommended

Articles

• Afropessimism, or Black Studies as a Class Project — Adolph Reed, Jr., nonsite.org
• A Sea Story — William Langewiesche, The Atlantic
• Child’s Play (Tech) — Sam Kriss, Harper’s Magazine
• Everybody Freeze! — Corey Pein, The Baffler
• The Anti-Social Socialism Club — Dustin Guastella, Damage
• The Jargon of Decoloniality — Neil Larsen, Catalyst
• The Trouble With Uplift — Adolph Reed, Jr., The Baffler

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Podcasts

• Blowback, Season 6 — Blowback
  • Great historical podcast covering American foreign intervention across the world. Season 6 is their work on Apartheid South Africa’s invasion of Angola.
• Dustin Guastella: Populism and the Working Class | Doomscroll — Doomscroll, Podcast

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Miscellaenous

• Dead Space Creator Glenn Schofield: Extended Interview — Ars Technica
• How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult — The Elephant Graveyard, YouTube
• Jerry Seinfeld’s Entire World is Falling Apart — The Elephant Graveyard, YouTube
• TALLADEGA: Nascar’s Most Feared Track — EmpLemon, YouTube
• Why The Ring Didn’t Use Color Grading — WatchingtheAerial, YouTube