A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆

@JuliusGoat
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A.R. Moxon (he/him) is author of the novel THE REVISIONARIES and the essay book VERY FINE PEOPLE.
His newsletter is The Reframe: www.the-reframe.com
He can climb trees, but chooses not to, recognizing that trees do not attempt to climb him.
This is where he toots.
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Cookie Monster, as cookie crumbs fall from his lips: Me worry Americans not understand how me operate, think me just want cookies.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/chief-justice-john-roberts-says-justices-are-not-political-actors-rcna343958

Chief Justice John Roberts says justices aren’t ‘political actors’

In remarks at a judicial conference, Roberts bemoaned what he characterized as the American public’s misconceptions about the Supreme Court.

NBC News
Today I wrote about our grotesque cultural flat-eartherism, an apparently regretful Dave Chappelle, an apparently apologetic Tucker Carlson, and the pressing need to use discernment if we would change a culture of abuse into a culture of healing. https://www.the-reframe.com/incredible-claims/
Incredible Claims

Regretful MAGA, regretful comic legends, and the need for discernment in pursuit of systemic healing.

The Reframe

If you've ever wanted much more LOST than you ever needed, 20 years after you wanted it, there's often been a better time to start. But for you lovely weirdos out there, here's the starting spot.

https://www.the-reframe.com/lost-001-observation-vs-belief/

LOST 001: Observation vs. Belief

We’ve got to go back, Kate! We’ve got to go back! Unpacking the TV show LOST —Part 1

The Reframe

Finally cracking into my favorite season of LOST, where the answers arrive as mysteries, and every claim requires scrutiny.

https://www.the-reframe.com/lost-043-out-of-time/

LOST 043: Out of Time

Everyone knows you can't change time. But what my novel presupposes is, what if you can? Unpacking the TV show LOST — Season 4: Episodes 10-11

The Reframe
Today I wrote about our grotesque cultural flat-eartherism, an apparently regretful Dave Chappelle, an apparently apologetic Tucker Carlson, and the pressing need to use discernment if we would change a culture of abuse into a culture of healing. https://www.the-reframe.com/incredible-claims/
Incredible Claims

Regretful MAGA, regretful comic legends, and the need for discernment in pursuit of systemic healing.

The Reframe
ROAD HOUSE is, in my opinion, not half-good. https://letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/film/road-house-2024/
A ★★ review of Road House (2024)

This movie doesn't seem very knowledgeable about roadhouses, or roads, or houses. Script reads like Michael Scott's follow-up to "Threat Level Midnight," with all the good and bad that implies. Features one of the 5 most inexplicable walks in film history. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Rodesius "Road" House, a professional smiler and nationally ranked amateur Hawaiian shirt collector, who knows how to break bones and can tell you which bones he just broke, which he does in a friendly and casual way. He can be hit by infinite cars and trains without injury. You can put as many knives into him

Earlier today, A.R. Moxon @JuliusGoat released a new essay. He discusses the kindness of being blunt. Because healing comes after a diagnosis, but the diagnosis isn't helpful if it isn't truthful.

https://www.the-reframe.com/a-confrontation-with-truth/

#uspol #humanity

A Confrontation with Truth

What it means to live in a deeply sick country that worships killing. Diagnosis as the first step of any journey toward health.

The Reframe

I wrote a story of two doctors to illustrate what it really means to meet MAGA defectors where they are.

We live in a sick nation, so we should pursue a culture of healing. And every movement toward health begins with a confrontation. https://www.the-reframe.com/a-confrontation-with-truth/

A Confrontation with Truth

What it means to live in a deeply sick country that worships killing. Diagnosis as the first step of any journey toward health.

The Reframe
The war currently raging is between a fanatical religious dictatorial autocracy whose militaristic posture, nuclear ambitions and zeal for apocalyptic messaging threaten to destabilize the entire global order, and Iran.

THE HELP is, in my opinion, pretty bad.

https://letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/film/the-help/

A ★½ review of The Help (2011)

Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer do fine work with material that treats them very badly. The white protagonist is quite a choice. The quasi redemption arc for her mother is quite a choice. A novel about the Black experience written by a white writer who took the stories of Black voices for herself to craft her bestseller; a novel which is adapted into a movie about a self-insert white writer who takes these stories of Black voices, not for a fictional narrative, but as a historical document, and does it so selflessly that it defeats the One Really Racist Person