by Mink | Feb 16, 2022 | historio-tragicomedy, History
Ben Shapiro sits for an interview with Socrates. Socrates: Hey, thanks for joining me today. Ben: Happy to be here. Socrates: I’ve been listening to your social commentary and find it lacking in a good measure of truth. You’ve definitely expressed one of the many...
by Mink | Feb 12, 2022 | Comedy, historio-tragicomedy
The Republic. Socrates stands before his troupe of Greeks and lectures at length about the perfect society. Socrates: All fiction stories must have a strong moral in which the good is rewarded and evil punished; if not, society will decay and die. Glaucon: Well,...
by Mink | Jan 31, 2022 | Comedy, historio-tragicomedy
I am about to start telling you a story. It will be very similar to one that Dickens would tell you, but before I begin, this whole situation of telling stories reminds me of my grandfather who always told me that if I take the time to do anything, I should go it...
by Mink | Oct 26, 2021 | historio-tragicomedy, History
In a stone house in the middle of Lisbon there lived a young girl. Not a nasty, dirty, wet stone house, filled with green and black mold, nor yet a dry, bare, modern stone house with nothing in it but glass and rubber light fixtures that jiggle when you touch them: it...
by Mink | Jul 21, 2021 | historio-tragicomedy, History
A tourist approaches a group of photographs that depict Weiwei flipping off various famous buildings and landscapes. The tourist herself raises her own hand and flips off the photos of Weiwei flipping off famous buildings and landscapes. The tourist uploads the photo...
by Mink | May 25, 2021 | historio-tragicomedy, History
A reader discusses the book Anne of Green Gables with a viewer of the Netflix show Anne with an E. Reader: When I started the book, I wondered if the woman who ran the orphanage didn’t purposefully send Anne out to Green Gables in order to teach her a lesson—that is,...
by Mink | May 1, 2021 | Comedy, historio-tragicomedy
A young boy finishes the Lord of the Rings and lays the book down on the side table next to the sofa and begins talking to someone in the next room. Boy: I’m surprised that Tolkien wrote such bland prose. His vocabulary is amazing of course; it must have been....
by Mink | Apr 30, 2021 | Comedy, historio-tragicomedy
A writer named Leigh Bungalow sits in a news conference and answers questions about her books and a recent Netflix adaptation. Leigh. Thanks for coming today– A journalist raises her hand and interrupts. Journalist. If I could? I have a question. Leigh. Yes?...
