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penguin social

An interview with co-founder Lance Priebe.

interviews the co-founder of Club Penguin.

Club Penguin

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Napoleon Dynamite, the ultimate food porn film.

looks back on the surprising, touching use of (kind of revolting) food in Napoleon Dynamite.

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Tina, eat the food

Naveen Andrews and Amanda Seyfried in The Dropout

An FTX tv show looms.

on FTX, Silicon Valley scammers, and the ascension of "content" as our highest cultural value.

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The grifter content mill

Titanic

A timeless shipwreck fantasy. 

 on watching Titanic 3D in theaters, Tubi, and some fashion news.


Titanic in 3D

Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett in Carol

Innocence, fertility, and fragility in queer cinema.

on recurring motifs—vomit, eggs—in queer movies, in a piece originally published in issue 11 of The Fence Magazine.

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The female gays

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Who’s afraid of some saggy tits?

on a persistent trope in A24 horror movies: the jumpscare of a naked older woman.

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Mommy issues

K-pop web3

Can the stans embrace it?

on K-pop's embrace of (and resistance towards) new technologies.

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K-pop's web3 future

Netflix Metadata

Farewell to freeloading.

on the end of password-sharing, etiquette lists, and Hysteric Glamour’s return. 


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Netflix's password police

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