Joshua Gooch
@joshuagooch
Capitalism Hates You: Marxism and the New Horror Film (U Minnesota Press, 2025) Once interviewed Wesley Willis he, him views my own
It’s 1975, you’re writing a horror novel about rural gentrification and you need an image to convey how men become fascist foot soldiers. Your solution? When they become evil, they buy new trucks with crew cabs. Joan Samson understood politically rancid American masculinity
When I see a recipe that includes tahini, I always check it out. And if I have everything in the pantry for it, I will try it out
You really can just plant Rancho Gordo beans and they’ll grow (and yes, I need to weed and harvest some beets from this bed)
Working our anti data center talking points for an upcoming meeting. My wife prefers the multi point argument I laid out, but I’m fairly sure the most rhetorically effective speech would be something like “Fuck you and fuck your data center! USA! USA!” And to dress like this
Made tepache for the first time. First taste and it was clear it should be mixed with tequila and lime
Warm enough that it’s time for the corn, poblano, and bean pasta salad again
Stella Parks’s recipe for brownies is excellent, but only if you ignore the bake time and rely on internal temperatu
Third time experimenting with seed crackers. This looks like the best one yet
It’s that time in the semester when students start emailing me like their on the front lines of the civil war
I almost never have sour cream in the house, but when I do, it’s a great excuse to make pound cake
Some Uzumaki shit must be happening in this classroom when I’m not around
I’m pretty sure there’s a term for explosives that are powerful to be considered fireworks
Today, I learned that the guy who wrote Basic Instinct was also the guy who sold photos of the My Lai massacre to all the big publishers. Originally worked for the Cleveland Plain Dealer