Living Memories & Dead Media
Arwynne O'Neill Arwynne O'Neill

Living Memories & Dead Media

Every time I look at my bookshelf, or maybe not every time but more often than I'd like, I'm hit with two conflicting thoughts... I love having a collection of books to look at, like an externalization of my brain, but at the same time, they're an increasingly archaic and unwieldy format, and an unbelievable bitch to move should the need ever arise again.

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Fear and Coasting
Arwynne O'Neill Arwynne O'Neill

Fear and Coasting

Wow, is there anything less clickbait-y than existential dread? This one is probably just for me, but here we go... I've been reading Cintra Wilson's substack, Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain, after recently rediscovering her for the third time in my life.

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Zombies: American apocalypse
Arwynne O'Neill Arwynne O'Neill

Zombies: American apocalypse

I had a minor epiphany during a disaster movie marathon undertaken between seasons of “The Walking Dead.” I was watching “The Tower,” a big budget South Korean remake of the 1974 classic “Towering Inferno,” when I realized that, with few exceptions, disaster movies are about economic inequality.

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In which we dream of starting over
Arwynne O'Neill Arwynne O'Neill

In which we dream of starting over

I recently watched the first season of the 2014 mystery series Wayward Pines. The story is fast-paced and keeps the audience guessing with surprising twists, but around episode five I started to notice a common thread it shares with other current shows and films.

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