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Screenlife: Zoom Origins

Lately, I’ve been getting a kick out of revisiting early internet movies. I don’t mean...

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October 24, 2023

Digital Phantoms

The Net (1995) is a Cassandra of a film, if Cassandra’s curse were to be...

September 2022

September 06, 2022

Fact, Fiction, or Just the Way Things Are?

1998’s The Last Broadcast is a movie made for me. I am a staunch New...

July 2021

July 27, 2021

Catfish: Five Years On

  On September 12, 2016, I published a piece about Catholic Twitter’s most notorious catfish....

March 2017

March 31, 2017

The Devil and the Details

When you tell a lie, you keep it as simple as possible (not, of course,...

January 2017

January 06, 2017

We Are All Trolls Now

Look at your average internet comment box and you’re in for a treat. Take, for...

December 2016

December 27, 2016

Why 2017 Will (Probably) Be Worse

I’ve been pushing a line on 2016. Last week I wrote about the nasty blend...

December 21, 2016

Is There a Civil War in the Church?

Because, frankly, I haven’t seen one. At liturgy, I have yet to come across the...

September 2016

September 12, 2016

The Catfishing of the Catholic Community

The Internet is a notoriously deceitful place—people con others out of money, adopt any number...

June 2016

June 13, 2016

After a Tragedy: Get Off Social Media

About a week ago I chose to take a temporary break from social media, mostly...

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