Caitlin
Forever Boyfriend
“Are you reading the whole of Shakespeare?” “Re-reading.” “Why?” “I like Shakespeare.” “I like… my cat.” Fortunes of War, BBC, 1987 Way...
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Caitlin
Jan 20, 20226 min read
Dagger of the Mind
Joel Coen opens his pet Shakespeare film with the cryptic title card: When. It is the first word conjured in the play—and the film—by one...
Caitlin
Oct 31, 20219 min read
Dune Feels
“The English have a great hunger for desolate places. I fear they hunger for Arabia... No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green...
Caitlin
Aug 28, 20217 min read
Hope Out of Cynicism in "No Country For Old Men"
No Country for Old Men has impressed me and haunted me from the start, when I insisted upon its perfection in a LiveJournal post with my...
Caitlin
Jun 22, 20218 min read
Jon Stewart is not wrong about science
A disclaimer: my back has been hurting horribly for the past two days (maybe I'm not made for all those daily handstands and cartwheels...
Caitlin
Apr 24, 20213 min read
Manflesh of the Month: Jon Stewart
Recently, in a bout of thirty-something millennial malaise, I dug up a CD wallet (remember those?) stuffed with discs containing full...
Caitlin
Mar 6, 20215 min read
FILM: Week One
March is Women’s History month in a handful of English-speaking countries, and it’s Film Theory month at my house, and one of my books...
Caitlin
Feb 27, 20215 min read
Esoterica: Radio, Window, Podcasts, Gen Z
Ever wonder what’s broadcasting in Mumbai this afternoon? Or playing on the Classic Hits station in Amsterdam? Why is Billy Joel playing...
Caitlin
Feb 15, 20213 min read
Esoterica: Korean New Wave, Wagner, and Almodóvar
Still drawing, still reading about random things. HOT TAKE: Song Kang-ho represents humanity. Hopefully, by now, many people know him...
Caitlin
Jan 1, 20212 min read
First Day 2021
Compared to this day one year ago, today has proven mercifully uneventful. It began a little differently—my parents had stayed the night...
Caitlin
Dec 20, 20202 min read
2020: A Year in Personal Victories
SHIT I AM PROUD OF: Not turning into a pathetic husk of myself after my six-year relationship evaporated on January 1st, 2020. God knows...
Caitlin, thanking the Universe
Sep 12, 20174 min read
Adventures in Homeownership #1: Post-Disaster Stages of Relief
My friend Annie called me last night and triumphantly informed me that "OMG the power and internet is back... we're watching...
Caitlin
Feb 5, 20172 min read
When Science Fiction Meets Reality
So you may have heard that sales of George Orwell's "1984" shot up a billion percent (actually Amazon's reported it as 7,000%) these...
Caitlin
Jan 22, 20176 min read
Child Free to Be Me
Honestly, I'd rather overhear someone say this about me than "That single mother takes better care of her orchids than she does her own...
Caitlin
Jan 7, 20172 min read
The UK is a parallel universe and no one can convince me otherwise
I think pretty much every American has a little anglophilia in them. In fact, King George might not have gone so mad if he knew that in a...
Caitlin
Jan 4, 20173 min read
You are not an introvert
I just picked this illustration because the dude with the fro looks like Malcolm Gladwell. And I felt like name-dropping Malcolm...
Caitlin
Dec 20, 20162 min read
Shit You Should Read: The Daily Show (The Book) An Oral History
As I inch closer to achieving my 34th year in just a few weeks' time, the reality of how my generation's pop cultural domain is...
Caitlin
Nov 27, 20165 min read
2016: Pros and Cons
Sorry for not updating in three weeks, but I was distracted by just how poetic and hypnotic that exploding 2016 GIF truly is... and just...
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