Queers can be dangerous, but the definition of that “danger” is fluid. I’ve recently finished reading The Complete Lockpick Pornography, the updated version of Joey Comeau’s first novella that includes a second, thematic sequel. Comeau is one-half of the duo that produces the webcomic A Softer World, and it was interesting to see how he… Read More
Outer space is cramming yourself into a dirty restroom stall in a stinking asteroid bar while two strange men practice their musical number for the night’s space-roughneck dance contest. Outer Space is having those men take a polaroid of you doing your business through the cracks in the stall door. The American Astronaut is a… Read More
I was handed a copy of Ransom Riggs’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, and I’ve been mulling it over since I finished. It’s beautiful, incorporating vintage examples of trick photography, telling the story of a sixteen-year-old boy named Jacob, trying to recover from the violent loss of his grandfather but unable to get anyone… Read More