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.4 min read·Oct 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.9 min read·Apr 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…4 min read·Feb 16, 2022----
Nick O'BrienThese Are the Most Pathetic People AliveTrump supporters’ behavior since the election has been a travesty.7 min read·Nov 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…4 min read·Oct 15, 2020----
Nick O'BrienThe Bee and the SpiderThis piece originally appeared in The Racket.3 min read·Oct 14, 2020----
Nick O'BrienNorthern CaliforniaThis story originally appeared in Humana Obscura in September 2020.4 min read·Oct 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.5 min read·Jul 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…2 min read·Jul 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…8 min read·Mar 22, 2020----