My Kingdom For A Critic
Critiques help audiences dig deeper into the art they love, so why are they always so hated?
Jesse Raub
Writer and coffee professional, stuff in Serious Eats, in Bon Appetit, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Vulture, HAD, Polygon, and other places.
The Elements of Style
Digging through 2006's Miami Vice to figure out what's absolutely necessary in storytelling and what you can get away with leaving out
Genre Reveal Party
Justified: City Primeval forgot it was supposed to be a Western
Not Top Scallop
Top Chef is a TV show about food, not drama.
Transforming Two Ingredients
How a simple combination of semolina flour and water changed how I cook
Surrendering to Memory
How Reflex Arc ruined my life for a week, and what to do about it if it happens to you.
The Summer of IP Bloat
Dead Reckoning is a movie about reckoning with the fact that original screenplays are dead.
The Importance of Being Burnished
Living life to the middest, professionally.
Some Things To Read That Aren't This
A good old fashioned link round-up.
Let 2023 Be The Year Of Little Feat And Love Letters
The world is big, let's get small.
Reclaiming A Sound
Scraping together personal history in two different versions of Raw Power.
The Things That We Do
Or, How Rax King's "Tacky" Ate My Lunch