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I have a feature at my Substack, Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place, called The Joy of Positivity. It’s a paid subscriber-only thrice-weekly column where I recommend a movie, television show, album, book, or haiku I love and want to share with my readers. It’s a fair amount of working putting out three of those pieces a week and I have an unfortunate tendency towards procrastination/disorganization rooted in my ADHD. So I figured that I could make the job more manageable by adapting old Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place pieces for it. I would feel guilty if my old articles aren’t unread by nearly everyone and the few people who do read this site regularly will have forgotten the pieces by the time they’re rerun. I was looking for pieces to adapt for The Joy of Positivity in the Analytics for this website and made an unfortunate if unsurprising discovery. A list of the top-performing articles on this site is overwhelmingly slanted towards the negative. I have made an exceedingly modest, fragile, almost-living from writing about the very worst life and pop culture have to offer. I’m so committed to my craft and my brand that somewhere along the line I must accidentally have committed to also experiencing the very worst life and pop culture have to offer. I’’ve been writing a column about famous failures, My World of Flops, for seventeen years here at the Happy Place and The A.V. Club. Bad movies are my brand. Bad movies are the cornerstone of my career. Bad movies are my thing. Bad movies are my life. So it makes sense that my website would be dominated by articles about bad movies, trash pop culture, and trash people. I wasn’t surprised, but I was a little disappointed because I love movies. They’re fucking great. They’ve been a life-saving escape since I was a little boy, dreaming in the dark. I’m steeped in movie history. I stayed at Robert Evans’ house. Roger Ebert compared my memoir to Dostoyevsky. I had a spiritual epiphany watching Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure that made me realize that I […]
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This week’s story, “ Between the Shadow and the Soul ,” is about a fifty-year-old woman named Eliza who has
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