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Scenes From Quarantine

9 weeks in 2020. 12 essays. Covid-19. — Hi. My name is John. This collection is possible because of the support of Medium subscribers. Thanks to them, I’m able to write weekly essays about pop culture, politics, and feelings. If you’d like to learn more, click here. Prologue: December 19th, 2021 When I first heard this joke, it was about a Jewish…

Covid 19

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Published in Humungus

·8 hours ago

When I Sleep, I Dream About A Comic Book Shop That Never Ends

And I re-read Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Sandman’ — In Neil Gaiman’s classic 1988 comic book The Sandman, there is a magical library of every book ever written or dreamed of. The library is imagined as a crush of books, piles and shelves crammed with volumes, and spiral staircases leading up to more books. That’s how I like to…

Family

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When I Sleep, I Dream About A Comic Book Shop That Never Ends

Published in Humungus

·Updated 6 days ago

Advice For Men

Just a few words for the fellas — I once smoked a cocaine-laced joint with an ex-con whose arms were decorated with white supremacist tattoos because, like a beggar, addicts can’t be choosers, so I puffed away as he gave me the only concrete advice I’ve ever been given about masculinity: “You’re not a real man unless you’ve…

Masculinity

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Published in Humungus

·Aug 9

If I May Suggest: ‘The Rehearsal’ on HBO

All about Nathan — Hi, my name is John, and I’m here to manipulate you into streaming whatever it is I’m currently obsessed with. And by “manipulate,” I mean “lovingly recommend.” Let’s do this over. Hi, my name is John, and I’m here to lovingly recommend a new show I’ve been watching that I…

TV Shows

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If I May Suggest: ‘The Rehearsal’ on HBO

Published in Humungus

·Aug 7

150 Word Review: ‘Prey’ (2022)

Still bleedin’, after all these years — A good prequel is rare. Set in 1719, Prey pits a familiar technologically-advanced alien hunter against Comanche warriors. Prey reinvents the Predator franchise by returning to what made Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1987 sci-fi action hit work but puts a new spin on it. Both movies are about survival and sacrifice. But…

Movies

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Published in Humungus

·Aug 6

Is Michael Mann’s Crime Drama ‘Heat’ A Good Movie?

Yes. Yes, it is — There was a time — not so long ago — when Academy Award-winners Al Pacino and Robert De Niro were pop culture gods who filled movie screens with their charisma and talent. These days, they are old men mostly remembered as caricatures. Roaring, bug-eyed Al and squinting, mugging De Niro. …

Movies

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Is Michael Mann’s Crime Drama ‘Heat’ A Good Movie?

Published in Humungus

·Aug 4

Someone At Warner Bros. Discovery Should Just Leak The ‘Batgirl’ Movie

I’m just sayin’ — It would be a shame if someone leaked Batgirl, the $90 million superhero movie that was supposed to drop on HBO Max this year but was abruptly pulled from the schedule and locked in a vault by its studio, Warner Bros. Discovery. …

Streaming

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Someone At Warner Bros. Discovery Should Just Leak The ‘Batgirl’ Movie

Published in Humungus

·Aug 3

Two Shelves Of Random VHS Movie Tapes I Recently Stumbled Upon, Ranked

The good, the bad, and the animated Pink Panther holiday special — I recently took a few days off, which I’m entitled to do. All blog and no chill make it difficult for John to emotionally self-regulate. …

Nostalgia

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Two Shelves Of Random VHS Movie Tapes I Recently Stumbled Upon, Ranked

Published in Humungus

·Jul 28

150 Word Review: ‘The Gray Man’ (2022)

Bourne again — The Gray Man is a basic, big-budget action movie directed by the Russo Brothers. It stars two charismatic golden hunks in their prime. …

Movies

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Published in Humungus

·Jul 28

Yup

The hills have eyes in Jordan Peele’s unsettling new sci-fi western ‘Nope’ — The myth that there were indigenous cultures or highly religious sects that believed cameras stole souls is given a refreshing twist in Jordan Peele’s scary, silly, slow-moving sci-fi western Nope. In the movie, a community of Hollywood misfits discovers something is wrong in the cloud-dotted skies of Southern California’s High…

Movies

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