I can see you opening your eyes wide at this and replying that in former
years you were advised never to talk about anything that you do not already
understand. In those days, however, you probably spoke with the pretentious purpose of enlightening others…

Soon after the start of Malcolm’s employment at Floridaland, Dolly the dolphin, grew interested in Malcolm, seeking him out in displays of desire…

On a hot spring day in Locust Valley, Long Island, the artist Ray Johnson sent out a missive to a broad swath of his New York Correspondence School. The childish cursive spelled out in looping script: “Richard Lippold died, May 31, 1974.”

On a familiar, white morning in late September, Landon drove toward the Poughkeepsie train station, brushing past mountains of fresh snow.

Imagine a mosaic of small floating dwellings. Hundreds of turtles climb out of the muck to sun themselves on black logs slick with neon green duckweed.

TEMPORAL LOBE TEMPORARY BRAIN GRAY GRIS GREY BRAIN MATTER TEMP TIME WORKER PORTER PORTAL PORT END PORTS ALL PORTS SUITE GEESE DRONE SEWN CLOAK CAPOTE SEA SOUL FADO FLOWN FATE CLONE BRAIN

Perhaps JonBenét was disappointed with the doll for the same reason she favored American Girl dolls; she owned several.

I’m finally resolved to being connected to this dialectic, though still embarrassed I took so many of its arguments at face value.

Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) blends fact and fable. At the postmodern tome’s tail end, a fictional, anthropomorphic lightbulb named “Byron” wages war against the Phoebus Cartel: a nonfictional conglomerate of corporations—General Electric, Philips, Tokyo Electric, Osram, Siemens, and Tungsram—that monopolized the global lightbulb industry from 1925 to 1939.

I first learned about the cabins while staring at the ocean. They’re full of trash, my topless friend said, but it’s cute how they’re all lined up like that in a row.

God shares no attribute with the created. Obsolescence is an attribute of the created. God willed the obsolescence of the emerging artist by creating this world in which nothing escapes expiration.

An ongoing series of digital collages and video animations utilizing press coverage of ICE raids across the United States from 2025 to the present day.