Second
Thoughts
A home for personal meditations, critiques of art and literature, politics, sketches, and deconstructions that dive beneath the surface of thought. Experiment with form here, relate with current events, read and talk about a book you’ve never read or perhaps want to read, and criticize something, anything, everything.
Comicorpse Book One (Episode 6)
Episode 6 of Book One — Romey Petite’s comic series, Comicorpse
‘Adolescence’ and the Second Screen Dilemma
Netflix paved the way, inviting viewers to view films on demand and in innumerable amounts, from the comfort of their own homes. It was no longer necessary to buy tickets, organize plans, and make the drive to your local cinema. Just sit on the couch, sift through options, pick one, and turn it off if you don’t enjoy. That last bit was the killer.
Comicorpse Book One (Episode 5)
Episode 5 of Book One — Romey Petite’s comic series, Comicorpse
Comicorpse Book One (Episode 4)
Episode 4 of Book One — Romey Petite’s comic series, Comicorpse
Comicorpse Book One (Episode 3)
Episode 3 of Book One — Romey Petite’s comic series, Comicorpse
Comicorpse Book One (Episode 2)
Episode 2 of Book One — Romey Petite’s comic series, Comicorpse
Comicorpse Book One (Episode 1)
Episode 1 of Book One — Romey Petite’s comic series, Comicorpse
An ‘Autobiographic’ Sketch (Episode 2)
An ‘Autobiographic’ Sketch (Episode 2)
The Art of American Consumerism: American Bulk by Emily Mester, A Review
Published in November 2024, American Bulk: Essays on Excess includes essays on American consumerism. Hinging on different connotations of excess and consumerism, and digging into her personal and familial dynamics, habits, and experiences, Emily Mester covers an impressive amount of ground in American Bulk.
Jared Leto, Liberalism, and Coming of Age in the 2010s
The year is 2014. I’m 16 and my dream is to be a foreign correspondent for Vice Media. I romanticize the aesthetics of Occupy Wall Street and the Vietnam War protest movement, and my bedroom walls are plastered with photos snipped from a Time Magazine special on the Arab Spring. I procrastinate my math homework, instead pouring over features detailing strife in faraway places recounted by journalists who work at liberal legacy publications.
Jesse Welles and the Resurrection of Artistic Confidence
He’s scruffy-haired, 5’7”, dresses in the clothes my grandfather used to wear, and seems to forever breathe through a harmonica. His name is Jesse Welles, a 32-year-old folk-singer, songwriter, and poet whose backwater presentation is rooted in his working-class, Ozark, Arkansas upbringing. He has been hailed by many as the Bob Dylan of the new generation. I believe he’s the reincarnation.
An ‘Autobiographic’ Sketch
An ‘Autobiographic’ Sketch (Episode 1)