Rax King

Jan 22, 2025 | welcometohellworld.com | Rax King |Luke O'Neil

by Rax KingAnd now Garth Hudson has passed away at 87 in a nursing home and The Band has finally, officially, left the building. I’m more heartsick than I thought I could be at the death of an 87-year-old man.

Oct 19, 2024 | welcometohellworld.com | Rax King |Luke O'Neil

Today Rax King returns to write about the film Anora. Previously she wrote for Hell World about wanting and sobriety, expensive wedding traditions, the film Priscilla, Lana Del Rey's Born to Die, the band Creed, and her favorite Weezer songsHelp pay for our great contributors with a subscription if you can afford to please and thank you. Supporting independent media is good. I also have a few more free subscriptions to give out thanks to a couple generous readers so let me know if you want one.

Jul 12, 2024 | welcometohellworld.com | Rax King |Luke O'Neil

No one should have to think about who the president is and/or who the president is going to be every single day of their lives like this. The American people should be worrying about other things. Like dragging the hose out to the front of the house and spraying down the second story windows like you're a firefighter except the fire you're trying to put out is made of spiders. Blasting all of the devils back to Hell.

Jun 19, 2024 | post45.org | Rax King

Our story begins in 2006, on the eve of Lindsay Lohan's first DUI, with fourteen-year-old me weeping over the fact that I was neither rich nor famous. "She has no clue how easy she has it," I wrote in my diary, as if this movie star's renown was a betrayal she had deliberately inflicted on unpopular me. In retrospect, I'm pretty sure Lohan knew exactly how easy she had it: not very. But this, I refused to believe, from my vantage point as a member of her adoring, scrutinizing public.

Feb 26, 2024 | bonappetit.com | Rax King

In Underrated we review the ordinary rituals we build around food. Next up: drinking a Shirley Temple. You probably last drank a Shirley Temple at your third-grade classmate’s laser tag birthday party with a slice of bad pizza on a plastic Toy Story-branded tablecloth. Or maybe you had it “dirty” with a shot of vodka back in 2022, when everyone from the New York Times to Business Insider named it the drink of the summer.