Writer and coffee professional, stuff in Serious Eats, in Bon Appetit, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Vulture, HAD, Polygon, and other places.
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Takin' it easy and a recipe for peanut noodles.
Bucking food trends by succumbing to food trends.
Utilizing the power of the moving image to define the medium of film.
How the portrayal of death in The Secret Agent evokes the actual feeling of loss in the real world.
A Good Ones Oscars preview spectacular featuring One Battle After Another, Sinners, The Secret Agent, and of course, Jay Kelly
Examining creativity through the lens of Mitski and taking what you need while leaving the rest.
How my greatest success as a writer can feel like my greatest failure.
Looking at the message of One Battle After Another by examining Parasite, Civil War, and Eddington through Jean-Luc Godard's political film theory.
Thoughts about Alien: Earth and bad reading skills.
Breaking down the difference between "premise" and "narrative" in Civil War and more.
Why Fargo isn't necessarily about what most people think it's about.