Sunday Feeld Notes 20.05.2025
Things I'm feeling on a Sunday morning when Jesus didn't come back... again
After a few weeks off to visit LA for AWP25, recharge, and get my students to the finish line, Narrative Electric Co. returned this week. Thanks for your patience. And for coming back!
ESSAY
This week, I wrote about the HBO series The Last of Us, and how I find myself living in the parallels between fictional post-apocalyptic narratives and unnerving chaos of the realities of 2025.
Part of the unintentional propaganda of post-apocalyptic fiction is that it has us prepping for zombies or aliens or violent lightning strikes (Geostorm!) or thermonuclear war when, in reality, the apocalypse has been ushered in by Executive Orders, congressional budget resolutions, DOGEbros, corruption, avarice, an anesthetized electorate, expanding power within the oligarchy, and complacent/complicit journalism. The monsters are dressed in suits and require no masks. They golf and own superyachts. They’re on the PTA.
Read here.
ADDENDUM VIDEO
Catherine O’Hara is brilliant in TLOU’s season two premiere, where she plays Joel’s therapist. So I wondered what it would be like if she were my therapist.
AN EASTER POEM
From my 2008 collection JACK (Snare Books)
