I am haunted by mulch posts. The most recent mulch video came to me in the middle of the night, when I was hours into scrolling through a particularly nasty bout of insomnia. The video was an edit of ...

Built on the existential foundations of philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and expanded upon in the early 1940s by Albert Camus, absurdism gained traction in the post-war era, centered on ideas around life ...

Lucia Debernardini is a Features writer for Collider, as well as a London-based screenwriter and filmmaker. Her short comedy film Finsta has been showcased at the Aesthetica Film Festival and won the ...

In a recent post, I discussed the old saying "It is what it is" as a useful adage that could serve us well as a cognitive frame for how we engage worry. I received a lot of interesting feedback, much ...

Artist Pippa Garner's convoluted and mesmeric relationship with the automobile started shortly after her birth, as Phillip Garner, in 1942. The first cars she recalls all had very specific facial ...

George Saunders has long been praised in literary circles for his short stories that deftly combine the absurd with the mundane. But now the... George Saunders On Absurdism And Ventriloquism In 'Tenth ...

Father of the Funk Art movement, Robert Arneson, mastered the art of appropriating everyday items into objects of sardonic humor. In ‘Brick Bang’ from 1976, he incorporates his self-portrait with the ...

Two weekends ago, I rappelled off the end of my rope. I fell five feet, enough to badly break (“smash”) three bones in my ankle. Emergency surgery was performed at Saint Mary’s Regional Hospital in ...