Author Archives: Joshua Gibbs
Integrated Zeitgeist Solutions
Last summer, I saw a billboard for a massage therapist who claimed to offer “Integrated Massage Solutions,” which sounded perfectly absurd, but then I started to notice these terms everywhere. Everything is integrated. Everything is a solution. Yogurt companies don’t sell yogurt anymore. They sell “Integrated Yogurt Solutions.” Teachers don’t offer online classes, they offerContinue reading “Integrated Zeitgeist Solutions”
Every Now And Again, The Universe Bends To Your Will
Jarvis Cocker has made an album of French pop covers entitled Chansons d’Ennui Tip Top which will accompany The French Dispatch.
Sam Kriss Is A Vital New Writer
“How To Believe In Astrology,” the hit job on Alice Sparkly Kat’s Postcolonial Astrology, is magnificent.
Woke Evangelicals Interviewing Josh Harris
Harris: …and so that was when I knew I couldn’t be a Christian any longer. Podcaster: You just have such an amazing, difficult story and you are so courageous for telling it. There’s so much brokenness in the world. And I know that I’m not exactly where you are, so I guess there’s sort ofContinue reading “Woke Evangelicals Interviewing Josh Harris”
A Trade Off
A charismatic leader who does not confess his faults will attract many followers, but no successor.
Just Cryogenically Freeze Me Until This Opens
Blasphemers
My short story collection Blasphemers is half off this month on Amazon.
Proverbs Of Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” “In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.” “He had a clear conscience. Never used it.” “When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy.” “An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.” “Do not ask God the way to heaven;Continue reading “Proverbs Of Stanislaw Jerzy Lec”
An Addendum To Proverbial, Episode 73
The latest episode of Proverbial is devoted to the teacher’s proverb, “Don’t smile until Christmas.” In the course of the show, I claim it is foolish to “want to be liked.” While reading a book of proverbs this evening, I came upon a saying I wished I’d had at my disposal a week ago: “ToContinue reading “An Addendum To Proverbial, Episode 73”
