Magic Actions: Looking back on the George Floyd rebellion - n+1 Damn. I don't have enough adjectives for this one. Vast. Heavy....

I cannot stop thinking about a short story/novelette that I read earlier this week, Understand by Ted Chiang. The week before last I was...

'London Bridge is down': the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death - The Guardian (2017) Beyond a history nerd's appreciation...

I have not had very much experience interacting with or caring for older people with dementia but I ran across this randomly on Twitter...

Over the past 2 weeks I put in a bunch of research time on a comedy/history project about Crispus Attucks, his role in the Boston...

Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery Straight up: white Americans take slavery too lightly. I truly believe this is one of the core...

The Negro in Business in Greater New York - The Colored American Magazine Vol. X, No.3 (March, 1906) Here we have an image captured from...

The 1924 Richard Connell short story The Most Dangerous Game (about a man who winds up being hunted for sport in a remote location by a...

Lolita Podcast Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita is the story of a conniving, narcissistic, middle-aged child rapist & murderer...

I've included both of these playlists in past issues of the WesRecs newsletter before but as we are we're in Valentine's Day hangover I...

Capitalism will kill you, crush you, rob you, and turn you into a debt slave. But it will also just really really inconvenience you and...

Sometimes you forget just how weird and wild and unexpected...and rewarding...the Internet can be. And then you stumble across something...

City releases body camera video showing shooting of Andre' Hill by Columbus police officer Adam Coy It is a testament to both the general...

OK I’m thinking we can get at least a feature film, if not a 4 part docu-series about this specific moment in Black History - I like...

Crowd Sourcing a Short Squeeze via Reddit While Nuking a Hedge Found and on Behalf of Gamestop For Dummies. In this week's edition of...

If you'd asked me at age 17 what my favorite movie was I would have probably said Fight Club. I thought it was a fun, well-made, movie...

What an awesome piece of history that I stumbled upon while stumbling upon the MLK editorial from earlier this week. This is an intricate...

Above is a quote from The Handmaid's Tale which has haunted me ever since I read it a few years ago and which I included in a piece I...

Madre De Dios - An amazing essay from a mind that will be missed This week I was scanning one of the countless newsletters that I ...