Katie Herzog

1 month ago | splicetoday.com | Katie Herzog |Ben Smith

Fifteen years ago, I was—as usual—in between jobs. I’d recently dropped out of graduate school and had been fired from one entry level job or another (either barista or receptionist, possibly both). I spent most of my time not looking for work, exactly, but thinking of looking for work. I also drank a lot.

2 months ago | blockedandreported.org | Katie Herzog

When Jesse was on book leave last year, I remember thinking, Wouldn’t it be funny if I wrote a book while he’s gone? Well, I did not write a book while he was on leave but I did write one a few months later and it is now available for pre-order. This is not, I am sorry to report, a book about furries, ABDLs, daisy chains, knitting groups, or anarchist cafes, but I hope it will be of some interest to our listeners anyway.

Nov 28, 2024 | blockedandreported.org | Katie Herzog

I hadn’t planned on sending a note out to subscribers today—I hadn’t planned on doing much at all today aside from consuming a large mountain of mashed potatoes—but as Janna puts her brown butter rolls in the oven and Moose snoozes nearby, I find myself in a rare reflective mood. It’s been a bitch of a year in many ways: war, famine, flood, we’ve had it all. Not to mention that interminable election. The only positive thing I have to say about that whole thing is that it’s over.

Nov 23, 2024 | blockedandreported.org | Katie Herzog

Matt Gaetz is a Vile Sex Pest and Any Senator Who Votes For Him Owns ThatI realize that we are occasionally given to hyperbole about the untoward nature of politicians, but let me be clear: Matt Gaetz is a sex trafficking drug addicted piece of shit. He is abhorrent. His eyes are permanently rimmed with the red rings of chemical boosters. In person, he smells like overexposed Axe Body Spray and stale Astroglide.

Oct 5, 2024 | blockedandreported.org | Katie Herzog

Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Blocked and Reported to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. Journalists Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal scour the internet for its craziest, silliest, most sociopathic content, part of an obsessive and ill-conceived attempt to extract kernels of meaning and humanity from a landscape of endless raging dumpster fires.