Full Lids

I’m always striving to stay what Marguerite refers to as ‘open and curious’ where culture is concerned. With a few exceptions I’ve not been exposed to much Adult Swim, so when I’m The Main Character crossed my path I dove in. Three Meals in AnaheimSpotlights: The art of Takehiro KishimotoPlayout: Just Jammin’ by Gramatik Read More

I’m always striving to stay what Marguerite refers to as ‘open and curious’ where culture is concerned. With a few exceptions I’ve not been exposed to much Adult Swim, so when I’m The Main Character crossed my path I dove in. I’m Not The Main CharacterSpotlights: The art of Helena MingowiczPlayout: Weird Al Yankovic and Band play a Tiny

Editor’s note: Spoilers. Rez High is unrated and carries content warnings for mild innuendo, bullying and physical violence, time manipulation, misophonia (eating), time/space distortion and existentialism. Episode transcripts are available on the Neon Inkwell website. River Mill is the last word on a page blasted clean by a forgotten catastrophe. This bustling small community uses forager robots called

I’ve been thinking a lot about the mechanisms of writing. Not just identifying tropes and structures, but about time — the time it takes to do my best work. For the last couple of weeks that’s meant warming up with a Bluesky thread on something that’s interested me, and this week’s Monday warm up was provided by Jim Brockmire’s arch nemesis in

The Rolling Stones are like weather. Entire generations of comedians have made their bones on Stones jokes, and entire genii of bands have have been built from the black artists whose style they ripped off and re-packaged. That’s …not a great place to start, to be honest. But somewhere around their fourth victory lap, the

Sam Neill, convivial New Zealand dad to a generation, passed last week. This quote of his brought a lot of the culture I encountered this month into focus: To Serve, ManSpotlights: The movies of Sam NeillPlayout:  Night at the Opera by Emei Read More

Radcliffe Raleigh is the worst, and paid to do it. Rad is funny, charming, and the perfect wedding saboteur. He’s also in a locked room with a black eye confessing all. Smiling. Brandt & Stein’s first full length graphic novel is Shakespearean Leverage, gleefully throwing a cast of dozens at us as Rad convinces us that

Editor’s note: Minor spoilers. Backrooms (2026) is rated US R / UK 15, with content notes for body horror, bloody and violent injury, terror, and unreality.  One of the first things you see in Backrooms is a sign. The normal version reads NO CREDIT NEEDED, its Backrooms version is reversed as we experience our first taste of

Jean-Michel Basquiat, legendary artist, once said; “Art is how we decorate space;Music is how we decorate time.” Josh Johnson builds on that in the opening seconds of Symphony, his debut HBO special: “If art is how we decorate space and music is how we decorate time,comedy is how we decorate reality.” Comedy CadenceSpotlights: Ghanaian movie posters

Editor’s note: Contains spoilers for Herdling (2025) and The Sheep Detectives (2026). Content notes include discussion of murder, bereavement, trauma, and spiritual growth. There’s an image I’ve encountered over and over again this month: shepherds sitting with their flock at the end of a hard day. The religious connotations are obvious, but there’s so much