HOT ZONES: DISPATCHES FROM AMERICA’S PIZZA FRONT
From New York’s fold-and-run pragmatists to Chicago’s butter-lined, deep-dish fortresses, this is a dispatch from the American pizza front, where every region defends its crust like it’s a constitution.
MTV IS DEAD (AGAIN) ((OR IS IT?))
MTV didn’t die—it metastasized. The channel that invented cool taught us how to package it, post it, and overdose on it. Now, forty-four years later, we scroll through its descendants: feeds full of confessionals, countdowns, and chaos.
TOWARD A GENERAL PRACTICE OF POP-CULTURAL OVERTHINKING AS CANON
This is not an introduction. It’s a field manual for the faithful of overthinking—those who treat the Cheesecake Factory menu as scripture, Marvel as liturgy, and reruns as Homeric hymns. In a culture built from repetition, abundance, and absurdity, the only sacred act left is analysis itself. Welcome to the canon of recursion.