in which i out myself as an i moderate (TW: linkedin) www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

it's been 10 years since bowie died -- i still think my piece on blackstar holds up www.killscreen.com/blackstar-wo...

i'm trying to make time to chat with people (voice, video, meatspace??) about what they're working on and interested in. if we haven't spoken in a minute, or ever, dm me and let's catch up!

my sincere hope is that the new website for exresearch.co makes you think your computer is broken

i wrote 200 words about one battle after another

clearing out a backlog of takes now that i've got childcare again. here's 198 words about the materialists

i wrote 200 words about donkey kong bananza

i wrote 199 words about the last samurai (not the tom cruise movie)

i wrote 196 words about eddington

forgot to say i wrote 199 words about burial

i wrote 198 words about seven samurai

i wrote 200 words about TAFS

i wrote 189 words about rashomon

i wrote 195 words about kpop demon hunters

i wrote 195 words about the clipse

i wrote 198 word about mario kart world

i wrote 198 words about 28 years later

i wrote 199 words about moby dick

By now you've probably heard the news: Polygon has been sold to Valnet and I, along with most of my wonderful colleagues, have been laid off. That said, I'm now open to new opportunities! If you've enjoyed my work and would like to work together in any capacity, please feel to hit me up via my DMs!

lotta people asking so fuck it. i'll be pope

buhloone mind state is the best de la soul record and if you dislike that take you're gonna hate what i think their second best one is

this is a photograph of me (not joking)

i wrote about every michael mann protagonist for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/mann...

i've got 5,000 words about michael mann in this

guarantee nobody likes vespertine more than me

you loved brat summer. now it's time for perverts winter www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zr-...

Traditional Thanksgiving weekend viewing of Ferrari (pronounced like Adam Driver pronounces it)

please comment the platform needs your strength !

last year i wrote an essay that i'd been working on intermittently for years, and today it finally went live on the los angeles review of books. it's probably my favorite thing i've ever written, and it'd mean a lot if you'd give it a read. lareviewofbooks.org/article/weir...

i cannot recommend enough that you spend some time reading pao on the resurgence of guitars in music in 2024 -- one of the best pieces of music writing i've read in forever www.exresearch.co/every-bedroo...

really excellent look at roblox! highly recommend if you want to understand the metaverse as it actually exists

we run across roblox all the time at EX and wanted to demystify it for ourselves. the result: our first-ever special report, a 6,000-word odyssey into the baffling world of role-playing LEGO-headed unsupervised children. free to all subscribers www.exresearch.co/untitled/

ATTN: writers looking for pitches for EX. we pay $200 for 800 words. i want your fun/funny/weird pitches about culture, technology, or both. more details here: forms.gle/ihXaHtrNb7WA... pls rt if you think ppl in yr network may be interested!

had a good conversation about "the meme game" www.exresearch.co/the-greatest...

i had to write about it www.exresearch.co/a-users-guid...

have been slow-cooking this one in my brain for years and wrote it in one sitting, largely from memory, in a psychogenic fugue www.exresearch.co/the-golden-a...

huge honor to officially be a tab. thx @bijan.bsky.social and @rusty.todayintabs.com

you should subscribe to ex research if you (like me) are interested in the weirder corners of the internet www.exresearch.co/shaolin-mast...

i wrote about the av club and my unlikely optimism for the internet www.exresearch.co/where-is-cul...

somehow never written much about tierra whack, a fact i rectified for @exmove.bsky.social

going through a grouper phase or as i call it "experiencing seasonal affective disorder" 😏

you hate waking up to see this on your computer

big cosign from "friend of the stack" bijan stephen

this week's send felt like a real portal to another dimension. i humbly submit that EX is "on one" this week exmove.substack.com/p/return-to-...

been thinking a lot about this emoji 😼

got paid and treated myself to something i've been wanting

I asked dall-e for a gamer and this is what it gave me

Pao has been wanting to write a “What was PC Music” article for awhile, and the release of Hannah Diamond’s new LP provided a great reason to stretch out and finally do it. Highly recommended (the album and the article) exmove.substack.com/p/how-hannah...

Katsuhiro Otomo