Ars Nihil

While I've been more focused on other things, I also want to take a moment to acknowledge that today is the 81st anniversary of D-Day (...

For some good ol' queer swashbuckling fun, here's a few videos about one of the coolest women in history, the French opera singer Julie...

Chess boxing is one of those weird things I've come across here and there throughout the years, so I finally looked into some videos and...

Today was apparently National Cheese Day but also only one of many cheese days . Regardless of whether this was the superior Cheese Day,...

I asked my spouse - a Queer both personally and professionally - what some good post topics for Pride Month could include. They...

One of the best aspects about public domain is that people find ways to gather cool things and spruce them up to showcase them in...

Found out recently that Nozomi Entertainment (the successor to the anime retailer known to 1990s anime fans as Right Stuf ) has been...

Lao Gan Ma ( 老干妈) ("Old Grandmother") is a Chinese condiment brand that apparently makes an amazing meat-infused black bean chili crisp...

Don’t know if this would fall under Pride Month stuff but the episodes about Liam Kyle Sullivan on Jamie Loftus's podcast Sixteenth...

The Dutch YouTube channel Hoog does a lot of cool videos, especially about places that are hard to access for outsiders. One such place...

"I’d Like to Report a Murder" by Hannah Baer, Lauren Oyler, and Brandon Taylor (Pioneer Works) A lively conversation between literary...

Sometimes, these micro-posts are also going to just be lists or short definitions of cultural literacy-kind of things. Here's one of...

"Woolfish Perception" by Henry Oliver (Liberties) An article about Virginia Woolf's nonfiction, specifically her essays published in...

Originally planned as a Something Interesting, these two folklore indices are pretty cool but also self-explanatory. If you find folk...

Just saw this weird animation - the YouTube video itself has the best descriptor for what’s shown: “This is not clay animation but gypsum...

The 1980s is the only time I can think of where a Claymation special about singing fruit was even possible. I do have to admit that Will...

"Kill the Editor: On the End of Literary Prestige" by Caleb Caudell (The Metropolitan Review) A somewhat splenetic take on modern...

5 Star Reviews Are Ruining Your Life This is oddly timed, since I've been thinking about this lately...

Sometimes, these micro-posts are also going to just be lists or short definitions of cultural literacy-kind of things. Here's one of...

"Something very small, so tiny and insignificant as to be almost invisible in its origin, can nonetheless open up a new and radiant...