The past decade or two has not been a good one for members of the media. And it keeps getting worse on a lot of fronts. Cultural coverage in particular has been stomped pretty thoroughly, in dribs and drabs over the years, and then rather decisively in recent months. The
Hi! If you don't know much about what I've done or who I am, here are some pieces from recent years I’d love you to check out. First up, here are handy links to the work I've done for Vanity Fair (where I&
I've assembled an array of coverage of my first book, Burn It Down: Power, Complicity and a Call for Change in Hollywood, which came out June 6, 2023. Burn It Down is my reaction to and examination of the trends that produced #MeToo and various racial reckonings as
Hello! I hope you are doing OK and taking care of yourself. That’s a pretty tall order at the moment and if you are taking on even more — i.e., trying to help others and your communities — I’m grateful to you. I’ve got a roster of good
First up, a professional announcement: I will once again be the emcee, host and moderator at the three-day Battlestar Galactica convention that Creation has put together. The first one, as I wrote in this post, was a blast. I am hoping you can come to the next one, in New
Oh, this one hurts. This hurts a lot. A lot of things in the world are terrible, so it takes something major to burst through and occupy the center of my mind. No one could do that like David Lynch. With the death of Lynch, we’ve lost one of
Would you like a bit of good news? I would! This past weekend, Creation Entertainment put on a convention paying tribute to Battlestar Galactica. Many members of the show’s acting troupe and creative team were on hand, and I had the honor of being the MC and also moderating
Countless times, when people in the entertainment industry needed help, I’ve answered the call. I’ve done things behind the scenes and helped however I could more times than I can count. I’ve listened to folks’ stories and told them they weren’t wrong to feel the way
Hello! Chicago folks, on Wednesday, Aug. 14 at 7 p.m., I’ll be in conversation with my friend Steve Darnall at The Book Cellar in Chicago. The occasion is the reissue of Uncle Sam, a brilliant graphic novel by Steve and Alex Ross. It’s about a lot of
Politics is, to some degree, a game of symbolism. But the phrase “political theater” isn’t an inherently negative one: We all respond to symbols and images that are brilliantly arranged. Under the right conditions, we create real meaning from those building blocks. That is all to say, if I
There are a couple of interviews (and an event) I’d like to draw your attention to. And then I’m going to share a few thoughts on one year of Burn It Down (now out in paperback!) existing in the world. A number of folks asked me during the
It’s been a while. One big reason is that it’s now gardening season and I spend every spare minute doing dirt-based outdoor therapy in my yard. I'm having a lot of fun with it, while also dodging a massive brood of dazed cicadas, who are truly