This is a culture, media, and politics project, investigating the nature of the “Unworkable Equilibrium” in our culture: the feeling that things are simultaneously spiraling out of control and grinding to a halt.

I bring a perspective drawing from Weird fiction, film, and philosophy, and attempt to parse our unique historical moment in a psychological, and sometimes even psychedelic manner.

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The eerie tenacity of the supposedly normal in times that are supposedly anything but

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I'm a writer of dark and surreal fiction from Northampton, MA. My novels include A Room in Dodge City, A Room in Dodge City Vol. 2, and ANGEL HOUSE.