I'm more active on twitter still ( @nberlat ). The best way to follow me though is to follow my substack: https://noahberlatsky.subs...
12:41 AM - Apr 02, 2023
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Hello. stretched too thin to be on here much, but! I'm on
Notes (Noah Berlatsky)
substack: www.everythingishorrible.n...
twitter: @nberlat
bluesky: @nberlat .bsky.social
come say hello!
Notes (Noah Berlatsky)
substack: www.everythingishorrible.n...
twitter: @nberlat
bluesky: @nberlat .bsky.social
come say hello!
11:48 PM - Jul 03, 2023
Does substack empower you? Does it give you control over your writing in a new model of journalism?! oooorrrrr…is it just kind of the same neoliberal hellhole as ever?
If you aren't biting the hand that feeds you, why even write?
https://noahberlatsky.subs...
If you aren't biting the hand that feeds you, why even write?
https://noahberlatsky.subs...
08:35 AM - Apr 24, 2023
well, let's see if I can get banned here.
social media sites should be aggressive about protecting sex workers and adult content. it's a progressive imperative. I focus on substack here, but spoutible's decision to strongly limit adult content and target critics of that policy is wrong. https://n
social media sites should be aggressive about protecting sex workers and adult content. it's a progressive imperative. I focus on substack here, but spoutible's decision to strongly limit adult content and target critics of that policy is wrong. https://n
10:05 AM - Apr 18, 2023
Wrote about substack notes taking over the world!
(well, not quite yet. Other social networks, and maybe even twitter, should be worried though.)
https://noahberlatsky.subs...
(well, not quite yet. Other social networks, and maybe even twitter, should be worried though.)
https://noahberlatsky.subs...
05:13 PM - Apr 11, 2023
I've been experimenting with substack notes and I think it's probably the best choice for me for now for what I laughingly refer to as my business.
04:41 PM - Apr 11, 2023
and finally! wrote about Jeff Vandermeer's reissued debut, Veniss Underground, which shows how weird he was to start and also how he's gotten significantly weirder. https://www.latimes.com/en...
10:18 AM - Apr 11, 2023
also! wrote about camp and Imitation of Life, and how surfaces are both fake and extremely powerful in shaping who we are and how we're treated. https://noahberlatsky.subs...
10:12 AM - Apr 11, 2023
Wrote about Kelly Reichardt's Showing Up, a movie about not much happening, which urges you to pay attention. https://www.splicetoday.co...
10:07 AM - Apr 11, 2023
lost an opportunity because I asked a bunch of questions before I was willing to sign a contract.
but if they weren't willing to answer questions, how much of an opportunity was it?
enough to make me somewhat bitter at least...
but if they weren't willing to answer questions, how much of an opportunity was it?
enough to make me somewhat bitter at least...
09:48 PM - Apr 10, 2023
also! poem by me at beach_haiku's FIve Fleas. Most of this batch are celebrating spring, but I am resolutely unseasonable.
Everything is better if you rebuild it
as a giant super robot.
https://fivefleas.blogspot...
Everything is better if you rebuild it
as a giant super robot.
https://fivefleas.blogspot...
06:43 PM - Apr 10, 2023
at dadakuku I wrote a searching poem about Heidegger's philosophy.
𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆
The Kleenex box rests
on Being and Time.
Gesundheit, Heidegger
you fascist piece of shit.
https://dadakuku.com/2023/...
𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆
The Kleenex box rests
on Being and Time.
Gesundheit, Heidegger
you fascist piece of shit.
https://dadakuku.com/2023/...
06:19 PM - Apr 10, 2023
me in the independent: Biden should review Clarence Thomas' cases and refuse to enforce decisions where there's a flagrant conflict of interest. https://www.independent.co...
06:11 PM - Apr 10, 2023
I wrote about Musk failing to understand that substack isn't really a competitor. It's an important part of twitter's business model. https://noahberlatsky.subs...
09:43 AM - Apr 10, 2023
I wrote about the worry that film has abandoned sex. the MCU is weirdly sexless for sure, but...there's more open discussion/representation of LGBT people in film than ever before, an entire realm of sexual identity and experience that used to be verboten.https://noahberlatsky.subs...
10:03 AM - Apr 09, 2023
published this today at five fleas
When you are a cat
the world past the window
is filled with things
that might be birds.
https://fivefleas.blogspot...
When you are a cat
the world past the window
is filled with things
that might be birds.
https://fivefleas.blogspot...
05:22 PM - Apr 08, 2023
Rachel Pollack has died. she's best known maybe for her run on Doom Patrol and her tarot books, but she was also an amazing, truly original writer. I can't recommend the Unquenchable Fire enough. https://www.theguardian.co...
11:46 AM - Apr 08, 2023
this week's writing: debunking the myth of transing cis and gay youth; Stormy Weather 80 years later, AIR goes pfft, and more. https://noahberlatsky.subs...
10:51 AM - Apr 08, 2023
10:22 PM - Apr 07, 2023
reviewed One True Loves, a rom com which...isnt' really a rom com. there are laugh lines, but it's more just a romance, about grief and figuring out who you are after grief. I liked it a lot. https://chicagoreader.com/...
07:40 PM - Apr 07, 2023
At CNN, I wrote about AIR, and how Hollywood can make you root for anyone. Yet, they keep urging you to root for the same affluent white guys. https://www.cnn.com/2023/0...
12:52 PM - Apr 07, 2023
star trek tos rewatch continues with Space Seed! I talk about the sexiness of eugenically perfect bad boys...Khan and Kirk alike. https://noahberlatsky.subs...
11:51 AM - Apr 07, 2023
got to write about the kind of fantastic Korean assassin drama Kill Boksoon. Some parallels with EEAO, since it's about a mom's relationship with her queer daughter. I think I like it better though. https://www.splicetoday.co...
07:40 AM - Apr 07, 2023
News is being made right now inside the Tennessee State House where people (mostly young people) have mobbed the hallways, are lying on the floor, shouting, chanting and refusing to leave. It appears as though the State Police, who line the hallways, may be called in to removed the people. YES!!
08:08 PM - Apr 06, 2023
me on why Republicans aren't really hypocrites. they're fascists. They sincerely believe they should be above the law. which is kind of worse; there's no shared moral framework to build on here. https://noahberlatsky.subs...
03:29 PM - Apr 06, 2023
on a cheerier note! beach_haiku published a short poem by me.
Insomnia
gives you a lot of time to think about
insomnia.
https://fivefleas.blogspot...
Insomnia
gives you a lot of time to think about
insomnia.
https://fivefleas.blogspot...
01:40 PM - Apr 06, 2023
got to write about the best used poetry section in chicago. https://chicagoreader.com/...
chicagoreader.com
Best used poetry section in Chicago - Chicago Reader
Myopic Books in Wicker Park has a ton of poetry on offer, but the prices aren’t that much better than you could find new. The late, lamented Bookman’s Corner in Lakeview sold books so cheap it made it feel like you were stealing them—but there weren’t that many poetry books to steal. Between those e..
11:37 AM - Apr 06, 2023
wrote about the founder, and how Ray Kroc in the film is supposed to be admirable in part because he's a horrible, vicious opportunist.
that's an American vision of success which benefited Trump. https://noahberlatsky.subs...
that's an American vision of success which benefited Trump. https://noahberlatsky.subs...
10:48 AM - Apr 06, 2023
got to write about the wonderful debut of Chicago's Miirrors, who make lovely polished anthemic alt rock. They're playing this weekend and their life shows are great, so check them out if you're in the city. https://chicagoreader.com/...
06:00 PM - Apr 05, 2023
At Parker Molloy's substack I talked about the myth that cis gay and lesbian people are being pushed to be trans. I talked to trans youth, medical professionals and parents, and they all agreed: this myth is pernicious nonsense. https://www.readtpa.com/p/...
11:58 AM - Apr 05, 2023
