Status Updates From The Brain-Dead Megaphone

"In a culture that is becoming ever more story-stupid... it is perhaps not surprising that people have trouble teaching and receiving a novel as complex and flawed as Huck Finn, but it is even more urgent that we learn to look passionately and technically at stories, if only to protect ourselves from the false and manipulative ones being circulated among us."

Buddha Boy: crazy to read up on all the things that have happened with Bomjon since. One more entry!

The United States of Huck: really makes me want to read Mark Twain.

The Perfect Gerbil: Reading Barthelme’s ‘The School’: I feel like I would appreciate this more if I read the story. Very great deconstruction of why the story works though.

Thought Experiment: Saunders continues to push his “woke” message of Kindness and Compassion.

The Great Divider: this has aged EXCEPTIONALLY well

There were a couple of rather snarky entries, Ask the Optimist and Woof. that failed to move me, and in fact to make me feel a bit of the ick, but Saunders came back roaring with The Great Divider, which was brilliant.