Projects

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

Reading

• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
• Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti
• The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. Mearsheimer

Playing

• Pathologic 3
• Umineko: When They Cry

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.

Watching

• The Sympathizer
• Thunderbolt Fantasy

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Recommended

Articles

• Afropessimism, or Black Studies as a Class Project — Adolph Reed, Jr.
• A Sea Story — William Langewiesche, The Atlantic
• Child’s Play (Tech) — Sam Kriss
• Everybody Freeze! — Corey Pein, The Baffler
• Exiting the Vampire Castle — Mark Fisher
• Park Chan-wook and the Funny Thing About Stomach-Churning Horror — Robert Ito
• Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the United States of America — Barbara J. Fields
• The Anti-Social Socialism Club — Dustin Guastella
• The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians — Evan Ratliff
• The Jargon of Decoloniality — Neil Larsen
• The Trouble With Uplift — Adolph Reed, Jr.
• The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction — Walter Benjamin

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

Videos

• AI Will Destroy Education, Teachers and Schools if we don’t stop it — Internet of Bugs
• Dead Space Creator Glenn Schofield: Extended Interview — Ars Technica
• How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult — The Elephant Graveyard
• Jerry Seinfeld’s Entire World is Falling Apart — The Elephant Graveyard
• TALLADEGA: Nascar’s Most Feared Track — EmpLemon
• What Happened To The Everest College Guy? — Curtiss King TV
• Why The Ring Didn’t Use Color Grading — WatchingtheAerial