Posts from Popula

The pretend populism of Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar

It felt as if I were walking for the first time in my life — left, right, left, right — all my mind could manage.

'Have you seen the white whale?' Ahab asks.

On set, visibly queer background actors are often used to provide an 'outrageous' backdrop for the prim and proper leads.

A Los Angeles drag queen reflects on putting the 'fun' in 'funeral'

a close reading of his exit letter to Amazon employees

A watering hole of sorts, that was all I wanted.

Who, or what, do you trust?

The problem was never 'kids in cages'

reflections on the mirror in the painting

Good luck Alexei Navalny, I hope they let you out of jail.

I paused there as if for my own laughter, which did not come.

Navalny’s politics may be dodgy, but his bravery, and his skill as a documentarian, are beyond question.