Nick O'BrienIf he’s not on your pistol, do you even love him?“Put the right-wing populist former president’s face on my gun” is something you hear a lot in a healthy and well-adjusted country.Oct 2, 2023Oct 2, 2023
Nick O'BrienMake More Movies and Shows Like These, Will Ya?They say there’s nothing new under the sun, and today, that expression has jumped the shark.Apr 14, 2023Apr 14, 2023
Nick O'BrienIs the Metaverse, Like, Mandatory?This blog post probably isn’t going to age well. Articles that cast aspersions on emerging technology rarely do. The cycle looks like this…Feb 16, 2022Feb 16, 2022
Nick O'BrienThese Are the Most Pathetic People AliveTrump supporters’ behavior since the election has been a travesty.Nov 15, 2020Nov 15, 2020
Nick O'BrienI’m Begging You to Cool It with the Anti-Biden Posts for a WhileIt’s less than three weeks til election day, and here in this home stretch, I’ve noticed a troubling pattern: An uptick in social media…Oct 15, 2020Oct 15, 2020
Nick O'BrienThe Bee and the SpiderThis piece originally appeared in The Racket.Oct 14, 2020Oct 14, 2020
Nick O'BrienNorthern CaliforniaThis story originally appeared in Humana Obscura in September 2020.Oct 14, 2020Oct 14, 2020
Nick O'BrienA Nu Look at Nu-MetalI think it’s time for me to interrogate the embarrassment I feel over my teenage nu-metal phase.Jul 25, 2020Jul 25, 2020
Nick O'BrienHow to Love America in 2020On the heels of six months of mass sickness and death, the federal government’s wholly insufficient mitigation of an economic crisis…Jul 4, 2020Jul 4, 2020
Nick O'BrienGhost ZooThe most popular theory, later, was that the afterlife was reaching capacity. After eons of human life and death, playing out among a…Mar 22, 2020Mar 22, 2020