Archive - Border Studies - Notes from Samantha Culp

An Essay By My Late Mom, Candace Wilson Culp

Along with a note from me, plus 1970s tourist postcards of Morocco

Jun 9, 2024

December 2023

Substackers Against Nazis

A collective letter to Substack leadership

Dec 14, 2023

September 2022

Highway Hypnosis

From the Flying-J to the Backrooms and back again

Sep 25, 2022

January 2022

Nautical Twilight

End of year notes & recommended books, films, etc

Jan 1, 2022

December 2021

"A Sense of Being Outside" - RIP J. Didion

Joan Didion tolerating some dumb college kids (incl me) in 2003 + my favorite reggae Xmas song

Dec 25, 2021

November 2021

The Beige Room: a podcast

A three-part podcast out now on "The 11th", an anthology by Pineapple Street Media

Nov 12, 2021

July 2021

Hollywood is a Verb

A very good book to recommend, a song about UFOs, humid Ruscha

Jul 23, 2021

April 2021

Mirror Spit Luxurious Flowerbuds

The voluptuaries of Walasse Ting, sudden tragedy vs slow takes, a new golden age of experimental docs & "bee bread"

Apr 1, 2021

March 2021

Fricatives and Plosives

40 Ways to Say Fuck, A Micro-Canon of Chinese Cinema, & The Great Shanghai Daft Punk Scam

Mar 5, 2021

February 2021

Year of the Metal Ox

50 Years of Future Shock, A Deconstructed Western & Dinosaurs in the Sahara

Feb 19, 2021

Like a Ladder Like an Arrow

Lunar Maize Mooncakes, AR Puffins, Hong Kong Elvis & Gene Hackman's Birthday

Feb 1, 2021

March 2020

A Journal of the Plague Year

(distantly here with you all)

Mar 16, 2020

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