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Ewan’s Blog
Ewan’s BlogSep 15, 2026
Out of Sight; Out of Mind
Disability did not become fashionable. Disabled people became harder to ignore.
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disabilitybritain
brennan.day
brennan.dayAug 5, 2026
REVIEW: Sufjan Stevens' Carrie and Lowell, Ten Years Later
Ten years after its release, I revisit Sufjan Stevens' Carrie and Lowell, an album about his late mother's mental illness, abandonment, and grief, that's held up a clear, honest mirror to my own life. I trace how Stevens' songwriting about Carrie evolved from anger on Michigan and Illinois to unconditional forgiveness, dig into the many alternate versions of 'Fourth of July,' and reproduce my very first attempt at music criticism: a Carrie and Lowell review I wrote as a teenager back in 2015.
Music Reviewpersonal essay
Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️
Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️Aug 5, 2026
REVIEW: Sufjan Stevens' Carrie and Lowell, Ten Years Later
Ten years after its release, I revisit Sufjan Stevens' Carrie and Lowell, an album about his late mother's mental illness, abandonment, and grief, that's held up a clear, honest mirror to my own life. I trace how Stevens' songwriting about Carrie evolved from anger on Michigan and Illinois to unconditional forgiveness, dig into the many alternate versions of 'Fourth of July,' and reproduce my very first attempt at music criticism: a Carrie and Lowell review I wrote as a teenager back in 2015.
Music Reviewpersonal essay
Plush Diagnosis
Plush DiagnosisAug 3, 2026
The Cyber Harvest 0.01: Kristen Stewart Thinks Hollywood Is Stuck in ‘Capitalist Hell’
A analysis of The New York Times podcast, The Interview, with actress and director Kristen Stewart. Hosted by David Marchese. This item is featured in the The Cyber Harvest 0.01 series I started in my take of personal curriculum and media gardens. Check out my site for more on this.
plush diagnosisthe new york times
Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️
Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️Jul 23, 2026
It Was Always a Love Story, Actually
What could a prestige antihero legal drama and a shonen apocalypse epic have in common? As it turns out, love. An analysis and comparison of Attack on Titan and Better Call Saul. Beyond the violent carnage, there's a tender love and labour which these two impossibly different pieces of media share.
personal essayMedia Criticism
brennan.day
brennan.dayJul 10, 2026
REVIEW: Missing 'Missing Richard Simmons'
Nearly a decade after Dan Taberski's Missing Richard Simmons first asked the world where its brightest fitness star had gone, a review of the podcast that helped invent true-crime infotainment—and of the public's complicity in turning a man's right to disappear into a cultural obsession. On parasocial friendship, the ethics of documentary mystery, and why the legacy of Richard Simmons has been swallowed by the very mystery he refused to solve.
personal essayreview
Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️
Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️Jul 10, 2026
REVIEW: Missing 'Missing Richard Simmons'
Nearly a decade after Dan Taberski's Missing Richard Simmons first asked the world where its brightest fitness star had gone, a review of the podcast that helped invent true-crime infotainment—and of the public's complicity in turning a man's right to disappear into a cultural obsession. On parasocial friendship, the ethics of documentary mystery, and why the legacy of Richard Simmons has been swallowed by the very mystery he refused to solve.
personal essayreview
brennan.day
brennan.dayApr 24, 2026
Being a Citizen Journalist
From Drudge to Salam Pax to Darnella Frazier and Zhang Zhan. The world needs citizen journalists. There has been a hollowing of Postmedia's local press, the radicalization pipelines mainstream coverage fails to trace, Andrew Callaghan's compromised platform, and what I owe under the SPJ Code of Ethics as an independent writer with a blog.
Social CommentaryCultural Criticism
brennan.day
brennan.dayApr 4, 2026
Behind Glass
A few minutes before I begin writing this, I woke up into an anxiety attack. There are a lot of issues I could be writing about, the world is fraught with uncertain violence. This is a story about me, and also a story about North Darfur and Kansas and Haiti and India. I ask this: whose suffering gets reported? Whose death counts behind glass?
personal essaySocial Justice
brennan.day
brennan.dayMar 30, 2026
Incels Won the Culture War
Looksmaxxing. Redpilled. Sigma. Mogging. Cope. Seethe. Malding. Goyslop. Gooning. Memes from image boards became cultural foundation for Generation Alpha. How rich, powerful men have coordinated a harmful online culture for nearly twenty years.
Cultural CriticismDigital Culture
Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️
Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️Mar 8, 2026
r/Calgary Deleted the Top Post of the Day Because I Wrote It Myself
I was permanently banned from r/Calgary for posting my own writing about local public library funding. What does this say about the state of local journalism?
Digital CultureMedia Criticism
brennan.day
brennan.dayMar 8, 2026
r/Calgary Deleted the Top Post of the Day Because I Wrote It Myself
I was permanently banned from r/Calgary for posting my own writing about local public library funding. What does this say about the state of local journalism?
Digital CultureMedia Criticism
brennan.day
brennan.dayMar 7, 2026
Why is my local city and public library looking to pay $50/hr to an AI Artist Residency?
The Calgary Public Library is offering $8,000 for an AI Artist Residency while Canadian artists face funding cuts and 16% grant acceptance rates. There are programs like this around the world. Why?
Digital CultureMedia Criticism
brennan.day
brennan.dayMar 7, 2026
Why is my local city and public library looking to pay $50/hr to an AI Artist Residency?
The Calgary Public Library is offering $8,000 for an AI Artist Residency while Canadian artists face funding cuts and 16% grant acceptance rates. There are programs like this around the world. Why?
Digital CultureMedia Criticism
Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️
Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️Mar 5, 2026
The Big Arch Distraction (while the World is Burning)
A CEO took a comically small bite of a burger. The internet erupted. Meanwhile, the US is bombing Iran, Trump is drafting executive orders to seize control of the midterms, and civil unrest is reaching a boiling point. We need to talk about what we're choosing to look at.
cultural criticismpolitics
brennan.day
brennan.dayMar 5, 2026
The Big Arch Distraction (while the World is Burning)
A CEO took a comically small bite of a burger. The internet erupted. Meanwhile, the US is bombing Iran, Trump is drafting executive orders to seize control of the midterms, and civil unrest is reaching a boiling point. We need to talk about what we're choosing to look at.
cultural criticismpolitics
Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️
Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️Feb 23, 2026
An Open Letter to Cory Doctorow: Ollama is part of the enshittification!
A response to Cory Doctorow's defense of generative AI, examining the contradictions in supporting Ollama while championing open source principles, and an examination about what purity culture and hypocrisy really means.
AIOpen Source
brennan.day
brennan.dayFeb 23, 2026
An Open Letter to Cory Doctorow: Ollama is part of the enshittification!
A response to Cory Doctorow's defense of generative AI, examining the contradictions in supporting Ollama while championing open source principles, and an examination about what purity culture and hypocrisy really means.
AIOpen Source
Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️
Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️Feb 6, 2026
AI Artists Have No Role Models
Prompt Engineers Lack Any Canon, Don't You? AI artists have an existential problem: they consume only their own work, severing the dialogue of culture that connects us across generations.
AIart
brennan.day
brennan.dayFeb 6, 2026
AI Artists Have No Role Models
Prompt Engineers Lack Any Canon, Don't You? AI artists have an existential problem: they consume only their own work, severing the dialogue of culture that connects us across generations.
AIart
brennan.day
brennan.dayJan 29, 2026
The Artist's Treadmill: Escaping the Scope Creep of Our Creative Lives
How creative ambition transforms into a trap of endless expansion, examining YouTube essayists, neoliberal work culture, and the pressure to constantly optimize artistic output
creativityart
brennan.day
brennan.dayDec 11, 2025
Are NSFW AI Companions Actually Just Exploited Workers in Developing Countries?
Part 3 of a series on the AI Crisis
Digital CultureMedia Criticism
brennan.day
brennan.dayDec 11, 2025
Are NSFW AI Companions Actually Just Exploited Workers in Developing Countries?
Part 3 of a series on the AI Crisis
Digital CultureMedia Criticism
brennan.day
brennan.dayDec 10, 2025
The Only Real Sport
Romance and Mythology in Mixed-Martial Arts and the Ultimate Fighting Championship
personal essayCultural Criticism