Zach Rabiroff
@zachrabiroff.com
Unemployed and looking for work. Past bylines at @publisherswkly.bsky.social, @comicsjournal.bsky.social, Gizmodo, HITS Magazine.
Michigan could swing Democratic if more Democrats turn out and choose to support their nominee. But the real challenge is the risk that more Republicans will turn out and vote for their nominee instead. This is something the Democrats will absolutely have to keep their eyes on.
It's probably a good thing and not a bad thing that a load-bearing element of the world economy is the continued inability of rich people to admit they've gotten absolutely hustled.
Elon is talking about using robots to build a mass accelerator on the moon in support of an economy 1000x to 1 million times the current earth economy. It's a bad sci fi novel not an earnings call.
Trick question. Anyone who writes is, by definition, a bad person.
alright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.
Love how the furry looks like the one in this photo who's a little worried this friendship going public is going to hurt his poll numbers.
mamdani feeling the furry joy is the energy I need this Monday
What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born? The answer may surprise you!
Ancient Life Discovered in Antarctica's 'Blood Falls' May Finally Reveal Its Origins
Hang on a second, I just need to go back in time to the 1980's to stop Alan Kay at Xerox from destroying humanity four decades later.
RIP Bram Stoker, you would have wasted all of your time and money on tabletop gaming
I am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…
Is Odysseus a Batman or a Spider-Man? - the greatest thread in the history of the Athenian agora, locked by an archon after 12239 pages of heated debate
Odysseus, as we know, is merely First Batman
Yes, as I posted a while back, it really just verifies my theory that the three essential flavors of superhero are Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man, and everybody else is essentially riffing
I think a Superman/Batman/Spider-Man exception to the trend is pretty much implicit here
[Mournfully, fighting back tears] I am available to write about the X-Men movie for your print or web-based publication
This audience's response to the new Spider-Man movie has triggered the looming terror, known only to comics journalists, that comic book movies might be making a comeback.
This audience's response to the new Spider-Man movie has triggered the looming terror, known only to comics journalists, that comic book movies might be making a comeback.
These—I can hardly write the word, but I must—𝘵𝘰𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘴; these private receptacles of eight million urban guts, tucked away in our apartments, have deprived New York's sidewalks of the fresh waste that gave them their essential character. They have flushed our city's charm away.
This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...
The only genuinely relistenable Velvet Underground album is "Loaded" send tweet
Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
The wizard speaks! @zachrabiroff.com remains the greatest!
Crouching in the long grass
Alan Moore on the invention of history, interviewed by Zach Rabiroff
flaminghydra.com
Another terrific interview from @zachrabiroff.com at @flaminghydra.com. Yes, you'll need a subscription. Yes Flaming Hydra is worth it.
Brand new at @flaminghydra.com : in the latest in a series of interviews with writer Alan Moore, we talk about rock and roll, magic, and Joe Meek in his novel I HEAR A NEW WORLD.
Brand new at @flaminghydra.com : in the latest in a series of interviews with writer Alan Moore, we talk about rock and roll, magic, and Joe Meek in his novel I HEAR A NEW WORLD.
Crouching in the long grass
Alan Moore on the invention of history, interviewed by Zach Rabiroff
flaminghydra.com
My Bluesky Improvement Plan is that every 6 months or so, all users on this website should be required to come up with a new schtick.
"RFK Jr. far-right internet food show" is the phrase I'd shout at Hunter S. Thompson if I encountered him time traveling through an acid trip.
Looking forward to my LRB essay contrasting the new Spider-Man movie with my own translations of the epic poet Stan Lee
Welcome to Bluesky, the site where a dozen people, several of them Canadian, discuss New York City municipal policies at length.
The American left has three old religious traditions: Optimistic (Baptist), Pessimistic (Calvinist), and Completely Quixotic (Jewish).
Hot take: A certain kind of American leftism is deeply culturally Protestant, even if it disbelieves in God, because of its preeminent focus on having the right inner mindset and intention and feeling properly guilty about one's moral failings to live up to a certain standard.
I just saw a commercial for Meta apps scored to "Five Years" by David Bowie, and I actually think that's a level of jaw-droppingly oblivious irony Bowie would have approved of.
Love a workday in which absolutely nothing happens for eight hours, right before absolutely everything happens at precisely 5:30 PM
$250 million adaptation of Yeats' "The Second Coming." Two and a half full hours of falcons and slouching.
Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Zohran Mamdani must apologize for Spider-Man eating Little Caesars in New York
two biggest complaints: 1. spider man is still on computer! Get him away from that shit. He can stick to walls and swing from webs why does he need computer. no more screen time for Peter 2. Eating little Caesar’s in NEW YORK CITY. I almost walked out