Greg Dember

Labubu, Metamodern Little Monsters and the Contemporary Face of Consumer Cuteness Labubu has emerged as one of the buzziest Consumer Products of 2025. They’re of interest for how they embody certain aesthetic paradoxes we talk about here at What is Metamodern? ...

Our latest!

By new guests, do you mean guests who haven't already been on the podcast before? If that's accurate, that's appalling!
& speaks to maybe this difference:
Left events affirm you're in a place where you and the other good people belong.
Right: you're in an exciting new place where good things happen.

Indictment of WHO?

Ha! If you had male vocal chords at your disposal, you would be the best Trump imitator out there. So great!

Whenever MAGAs testify, questions should be framed as "... and if you don't answer yes or no, it will be assumed that your answer is no."

I'm an indie rock and classic rock fan and pretty picky about music and not much of a pop fan, and yet I still recognize that Taylor Swift has a bunch of great songs, especially (by my tastes) in her last 4 or 5 albums. I think the people who dismiss her show their own ignorance.

Out of curiosity, do they come into their interactions with you already knowing that you've left the fold and become a Democrat, or do they expect the Joe Wash who'd they known before?

I'm sure he'll go on to something bigger and better. Totally CBS's loss.

Was he any good at guitar?

Do you imagine that the people who are reacting to Trump on Bluesky voted for him?

Relevant to me:
Fred Meyer! (shit)
Paramount theater (shit)
Chase (shit)

"They" -- ?????

This'll cheer you right up!

Sufjan Stevens' Carrie & Lowell | Powell's Books Upon the release of Sufjan Stevens’ seventh studio album, Carrie & Lowell, two divergent groups found themselves as strange bedfellows: the LGBTQIA+ community and American evangelical Christians. Both...

My upcoming book on Sufjan Stevens' "Carrie & Lowell" is now available for preorder from my favorite bookstore, Powell's Books in Portland. www.powells.com/book/sufjan-...

Excuse me... you'd have to get up to maybe age 70 to find anyone who talks like that.

"My love"
"My old man"

I'm 60, and while it didn't occur to me that it was fake, I did think "How quaint that the Mormons in Utah still talk like characters on the Andy Griffith Show."

Yes, watching Barbarians confirmed that he has some sort of issue with "old" or perhaps "post-sexual" women. (Trying to think of a single category that covers the monster in both movies. I'm certain they belong in a category together but I don't have a pithy term for it.)

I experienced the Zach Cregger films exactly like you did! Including watching Barbarians second for the reason you did. In each film he destroys an initially compellingly creepy/scary premise by then providing lazy, meaning-draining answers to the mysteries that underlay the tension he had created.

The next Congressional elections will in in November of 2026, not this November.

I mean, for that matter, why do we have a Vice President named "J.D." ?

A Metamodern Reading of "Heroes" – Short Story by O.G. Rose The opening story of Under the Wing, “Heroes,” is available to read online as a kind of teaser for the book, which has given me the wonderful opportunity to write not just a review/preview but an actu...

I wrote this metamodern analysis of "Heroes," a short story by O.G. Rose.

whatismetamodern.com/fiction/hero...

Reading and writing race in law and literature Published in European Journal of English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

my piece on "Reading and Writing Race in Law and Literature" is out in advance online, European Journal of English Studies - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

They always talk about "The Radical Left" as if it's the super-scary fringe of the fringe, but then they'll turn around and include Adam Schiff and Gretchen Whitmer in this group.

Oh, and happy birthday!

Wow! You've got a nice release schedule, with our Sufjan book then coming out in February!

As an FBI and CIA secret agent, that was one of Don's special tricks.😆

THE William Gibson

:-)