Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Imagine floating through the vacuum of space untethered, removing your pressurized helmet, and, with the remaining air in your lungs, summoning a blood-curdling wail. Say, [...]
Articles by Oliver O'Sullivan
Troll the Ancient Yuletide Carol
Every year, the holiday season officially begins in earnest with the milquetoast strains of emcee Lauer declaring St. Nick’s arrival on a sleigh/float/flatbed in the annual [...]
Golden Smog
In the commotion of late-capitalism and the dissonance of mounting muffler shop surrealism, the polarity of the tale of the last Phrygian king’s chrysopoeia reversed. As [...]
PoundSignOneTooManyBillyMumphreyStories
Most everyone in Search Party (or, “Curiosity Killed the Shawkat”) is content to assume that Chantal Winterbottom is dead. Partly, they’re playing the odds. More so, [...]
The Body, The Blood, The Bachelor Machine
The figure(s) in Da Vinci’s Le proporzioni del corpo umano secondo Vitruvio—however many there are, on however many planes of existence compressed into [...]
“Like being slowly drowned in a peat bog…”
Humanity unraveled Tuesday with all the subtlety of a dumpster fire. Whatever grisly, scatological metaphor you wish to deploy, now’s the time to get graphic. I’ve [...]
Disembowel Disavowal, and Vice Versa
Of the many wonders of The Shining, bear fellatio is one of the most beguiling. In this rattle-and-synthesizer unravelling, the ominous surrealism in the film’s veins since [...]
Spooky Action at a Distance
Behind a dark fold in the depths of every person’s subconscious, there’s carnival music and a candy-colored clown they call “The Sandman.” This recess harbors a [...]
The Gradations of Insincerity that Haunt Frederick Wiseman in the Night
On the highly-specific-yet–strangely-supple homage-cum-parody spectrum, Baz Luhrmann’s frenetic, bombastic melodrama maximalism sits at one end, and the smooth stylings [...]
