clayton purdom
@claytonpurdom.bsky.social
i wear chains that excite the feds
i wrote about Halo, friendship, jealousy, midlife crises, and big boys with my old friend Eric (not on bsky) for @kotaku.com kotaku.com/boys-dont-di...
Boys Don't Die: A Halo Retrospective - Kotaku
'No, I think we're just getting started.'
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If you read one thing about Halo this week I think it should be this
Boys Don't Die: A Halo Retrospective - Kotaku
'No, I think we're just getting started.'
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in light of miami vice redux news, required to repost my michael mann article for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social of course he's recutting the movie. he will never stop clocking in lareviewofbooks.org/article/mann...
Mann Men | Los Angeles Review of Books
Clayton Purdom explores an oeuvre of men in crisis in an essay from the LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure.”
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i hate the idea that "things suck now." cool and interesting things will always exist. finding them isn't supposed to be easy. so me and the team @ ex research made a trend report about it. COOL IS A SKILL ISSUE docs.google.com/presentation...
EX Research_Cool Is A Skill Issue
COOL IS A SKILL ISSUE A trend report by EX Research Q3 2026
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editors are falling all over themselves for me to explain why drake needed to release three records, actually
ICYMI: I fed 200,000 words of my writing into an LLM and had it write about the process of becoming me. Then I kept trying to do more with it, failed, went insane, and had the LLM write about that. 200wordsaboutculture.substack.com/p/60000-word...
60,000+ words about Clayton Purdom
This is my last one, I promise
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I fed 200,000 words of my own writing into an LLM and had it write about the process of adopting my voice _in_ my voice. At once the most self-indulgent thing I’ve ever created and an exercise in ego death. Link below
it's been 10 years since bowie died -- i still think my piece on blackstar holds up www.killscreen.com/blackstar-wo...
Blackstar won't tell you how to die
I spent a lot of time this week listening to “Subterraneans,” the last song on 1977’s Low, by David Bowie. I didn’t know what else to do. Like a lot of other people, I had a feeling—this response to d...
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my sincere hope is that the new website for exresearch.co makes you think your computer is broken
EX Research
A research report about games, music, the internet, and everything in between.
exresearch.co
clearing out a backlog of takes now that i've got childcare again. here's 198 words about the materialists
i wrote 199 words about the last samurai (not the tom cruise movie)
By now you've probably heard the news: Polygon has been sold to Valnet and I, along with most of my wonderful colleagues, have been laid off. That said, I'm now open to new opportunities! If you've enjoyed my work and would like to work together in any capacity, please feel to hit me up via my DMs!
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buhloone mind state is the best de la soul record and if you dislike that take you're gonna hate what i think their second best one is
i've got 5,000 words about michael mann in this
Los Angeles Review of Books@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 2y agoWe’re back. LARB Quarterly, no. 44: Pressure arrives in late March, featuring Claire Messud’s musings on Lolita at 70, @claytonpurdom.bsky.social’s deep dive into (Michael) Mann men, Mary Turfah’s report from post-ceasefire Lebanon, and more. Join today. lareviewofbooks.org/membership
