Eric Kildow - Friendly Neighborhood Dramaturg... and Beyond

Context Matters: Why the Story Sucks Once You've Lost the Plot

Were you thinking of something else? I can't imagine why.

A photo of a dump truck pouring trash into a river while carrion birds circle it.

Dumptruck to Circumpunct: Or, How I'm Trying to Quit Feeding the Beast

A greyscale digital etching style image of a man discharging his snowblower onto another man.

Rules, Laws, & Drawing the Magic Circle

A photo of border patrol officers in military getup, each with a clown face transparently transposed over their own.

A Brief Interlude in Which I Say Mean Things about ICE: A Sermon for the Men Who Can't Show Their Faces

And industrial robot arm with a squeegee in a white and glass room surrounded by a pool of red, blood-like liquid. Photograph

A Burnout's Guide to Capitalism with a Concordance to Scripture

A ground-up photograph of a man climbing a branchless tree trunk. His left foot is shown prominently as he clings to the rear side of the tree.

Musings

Climbing Your Family Tree: Nothing Comes From Nothing

An altered photo of the author holding a mug of coffee with bigfoot on it. The photo is done in a sketch style in greys and pinks.

Trudging Hopefully into 2026

Please Excuse Us a Moment

When I relaunched Friendly Neighborhood Dramaturg, I had the intentions of publishing at least two hard-hitting articles per month, coupled with additional features and bonus content. But boy did I misestimate the level of energy and bandwidth I had! So we're going to be starting fresh in January

Thinking Out Loud in the Public Square

Musings

Ok... What really happened with Cracker Barrel? Or, there is no spoon... It is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

Musings

It Doesn't Have to Be Like This

A number of unflattering memes featuring vice president JD Vance

Musings

A Short Interlude in Which I Say Mean Things About JD Vance

I can only pray that their birthplace is bulldozed in order to make way for a Panera bread.