200 words about culture

2,704 words about the Claybot

I recently fed 200,000 words of my writing into a large language model. Here's why, and what I learned.

Apr 22 • Clayton Purdom

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March 2026

60,000+ words about Clayton Purdom

This is my last one, I promise

Mar 20 • Clayton Purdom

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3,124 words about Clayton Purdom

Here is something I know about Clayton Purdom: he likes to begin an essay by telling you something he knows, and the thing he knows usually isn’t the…

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September 2025

198 words about The Materialists

Credit A24’s marketing for making me expect a sparkling comedy of manners in the vein of Whit Stillman or (sorry) Woody Allen when instead what The…

Sep 25, 2025 • Clayton Purdom

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200 words about Donkey Kong Bananza

There is an idea of “game feel” — the specific way that mechanics, animation, sound, and the tactile experience of holding a controller intersect.

Sep 23, 2025 • Clayton Purdom

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August 2025

199 words about The Last Samurai

Released before and bearing no relation to the Tom Cruise movie that stole its name, The Last Samurai dramatizes the relationship between two of the…

Aug 28, 2025 • Clayton Purdom

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196 words about Eddington

Ari Aster has now released a great movie, a good movie, a bad movie, and an okay movie, in that order; the trendline isn’t good, but I remain a…

Aug 26, 2025 • Clayton Purdom

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200 words about Hail To The Thief

I saw Ted Leo this March touring the 20th anniversary of Shake The Sheets. He rejected its reputation as his “political” album — he’d intended it, he…

Aug 21, 2025 • Clayton Purdom

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199 words about Burial

Burial's first two albums were, among other things, masterpieces of world-building, dystopian but sensual.

Aug 12, 2025 • Clayton Purdom

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198 words about Seven Samurai

This is a movie about multiples.

Aug 6, 2025 • Clayton Purdom

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200 words about The Adam Friedland Show

All Adam Friedland used to get was shit on.

Aug 4, 2025 • Clayton Purdom

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July 2025

189 words about Rashomon

I believe this movie takes place at the end of the world.

Jul 26, 2025 • Clayton Purdom

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