Disordered Desire: On Pillion (2025)
The ethic of non-judgment leads to moral imbecility.
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Un prince (2023): A Contemporary Gay Pastoral
Un prince (2023) begins with a plant uprooted, gently lifted from the soil. As the shot suggests, this is a story of relocation. It follows sixteen-year old Pierre-Joseph as he extricates himself from an unhappy home and embraces the pleasures of agricultural and sexual fellowship with two much older men in rural France. The director Pierre Creton, gardener and auteur, has given us a contemporary…
Sink or Stream? On Podcasts and Hyper-Synchronization
Without the locomotive force of the stream, the mind starts to sink.
Getting Lost in Rohmer
Solitude and conversation in Rohmer's contemplative cinema.
On Having and Being
Nobility is a spiritual remedy to the tragic condition.
On Email's Neglected Virtues
Some connections can only be forged in the space between solitudes.
Dorian's Error
Oscar Wilde penned an indictment of us.
On the Maniacal Virtues
The maniacal is an immoderate ideal, but an ideal nonetheless.
Critique of Non-Judgment
Non-judgment provides an ethics for a period of disorientation.