The Odyssey + Phetasy Digest
The Odyssey Is Everywhere | Bridget Does an AMA | L.A. Is Still A Dumpster Fire | Texas v. California | The Internet Is Dying | Love Letter To The Sane Women Holding It Down
Bridget is the Geronimo of American culture.
A full week before the Jonathan Pageau tweet shifted discourse about Christopher Nolan’s rendition of The Odyssey, Bridget devoted an entire episode of Dumpster Fire to the idea that the scandal is more complicated than most of us had assumed. And if you’re going to war with the establishment, you better side with Geronimo.
There’s a certain defiance of the crowd involved in this. Which is not an easy accomplishment, bucking the outrage of a unanimous horde. Throughout human history, this has been a dangerous maneuver, but humanity itself owes its survival to the people willing to say, “No” when the angry mob demands total agreement.
You might even say that this mentality is the animating force of Homer’s Odyssey.
DUMPSTER FIRE - EPISODE #332
How a “Passion Project” Became My Life
Bridget does an Ask Me Anything giving details on how Dumpster Fire is made, what her actual day looks like, why she threatens to quit every quarter, what prevents her from doing so, and more!
WALK-INS WELCOME - EPISODE #399
Coming Back to LA Is Like Going to an AA Meeting
Bridget checks in from Los Angeles — where she’s spending five weeks with family — and the city is not what she remembered. Empty storefronts on 3rd Street, deodorant locked behind glass at Walgreens, stores you have to get buzzed into, and a Hollywood Bowl 4th of July that felt more like a eulogy than a celebration. She and Maggie get into what it actually feels like to come back to a place you loved and see the decline in real time, why Texas feels so different, what a dead Vegas says about the country, and why the right needs to calm down about Christopher Nolan.
DUMPSTER FIRE - EPISODE #333
Los Angeles Is Still A Dumpster Fire
Bridget’s back in LA and the decline is noticeable. It doesn’t have to be this way, decline is a choice.
THE SPECTATOR
The internet is dying and so are we
There is a lot of proof that the internet is dying. People aren’t burned out of politics, although that’s part of it. They are burned out from going “is this real?” No one has the bandwidth to become an investigative reporter for each post.
A Love Letter to the Sane Women Holding It Down
Mar 22
I’ve been wanting to write this for a while because, more often than not, I find myself doomscrolling, screaming “NOT ALL WOMEN!” It seems like most of the women represented in media are, for lack of a better word, insane. I blame the algorithms for elevating the craziest of us. So this is for you—the woman reading this who has been quietly holding it t…
THE DAILY WIRE
America Tried To ‘Fix’ Men For Two Decades. Here’s What It Got Instead.
America spent two decades trying to “fix” masculinity. It nearly broke the country — and the guys who complained the loudest about it turned out to be the ones with the least ability to fix it. America needs manly men — not men who are afraid of their masculinity, and not men who only talk about it.
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