Brock Wilbur
Writer/Comedian/Producer
6'7" writer and performer who wants to work with you. Northwestern grad with a thing for one-hit wonders and dark comedy. Bylines at VICE, Paste, Inverse, Pajiba, Polygon, ET, ZAM etc.
PROJECTS
pastemagazine.com
The Knife of Aristotle Isn't Just a Fake "Fake News" Site—It's a Cult ...
The Knife of Aristotle Isn't Just a Fake "Fake News...
VICE
Aggressive Bonding: A Journey Into the Tragic History of 007 in ...
Aggressive Bonding: A Journey Into the Tragic Histo...
pastemagazine.com
When the Void Stares Back: Prey, Post-Humanism and Mental Illness
This article contains spoilers for the videogame Prey and for the person Brock Wilbur.
Prey is a videogame about a person trapped in a reality that keeps changing on them, struggling to overcome a series of constantly shifting truths, while learning that absolutely anything in their world could be out to destroy them. A coffee cup may turn into a tentacled burst of violence in the form of unfathomable shade. Allies and family members will turn into villains and your greatest fears will be all...
digg.com
Who The Hell Keeps Calling Me?
On October 25th, while dancing at a wedding, my phone lit up with texts and calls from friends, letting me know I'd been doxxed by Gamergate. Since that initial posting, I've received death threats in the mail and over the phone, had my credit card and several online accounts compromised...
inverse.com
Why Los Angeles Just Buried 1,379 Unclaimed Bodies at Once
Hundreds turned out to pay respects. A death specialist breaks it down for us....
www.polygon.com
I’d never seen The Simpsons — until I bingewatched the entire show in two weeks - Polygon
I’d never seen The Simpsons — until I bingewatched ...
www.polygon.com
Rick and Morty creators talk delays, production issues heading into season 3 - Polygon
Rick and Morty creators talk delays, production iss...
pastemagazine.com
David Cross: "I Don't Do Anything For Shock Value"
When David Cross last went on a stand-up tour, Donald Trump hadn’t been elected president yet. The reality TV host’s political ambitions had already left a huge impact on Cross’s act, though. The co-creator of Mr. Show and co-star of Arrested Development called that 2016 jaunt the “Making America Great Again!” tour, and as our review of the Netflix special attests, it was a stridently political hour that dug in hard against the anti-intellectualism and demagoguery of the Republican party.
Nex...
Kotaku
FALLOUT 3 (Honest Game Trailers)
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pastemagazine.com
Not Kidding Around: Dave Holstein Talks About His New Jim Carrey-Starring Show
“The best show you aren’t watching” is a tag that gets thrown around for a hundred shows per year. The one that it most applies to right now in 2018 is Kidding on Showtime. Jeff Pickles, a Mr. Rogers-ian childrens entertainer, sees his life collapse around him as he enters the fourth decade of his career, with a brutal divorce and the death of a child. What sets this tale of a man surrounded by failure apart is that the man himself doesn’t succumb to that collapse. In current prestige TV, you...
Amazon
FILMPOCALYPE! - 52 Cinematic Visions of the End
A book compiling 52 different apocalyptic film reflections.
pastemagazine.com
Erin Ryan Whips Up a Smart New Podcast for Dark Times
The Crooked Media network is home to shows like Pod Save America and other high-profile political commentary programming, mostly lead by male hosts. Tomorrow the audio empire adds a new show, based on one of their highest profile recurring female guests, Erin (Gloria) Ryan. This isn’t going to be an offshoot or a spinoff—this is going to be a revolution.
Born in Wisconsin and, as she puts it, “raised by wolves,” Ryan took a Notre Dame education and moved to Chicago to do community work. She s...
lastpodcastnetwork.com
Last Podcast On The Left: NXIVM
You asked for it: On this episode of Last Podcast Side Stories, Ben 'n' Henry cover the Albany sex cult that has been making headlines.
Also, journalist Brock Wilbur joins the show to discuss his own investigative work on NXIVM and his efforts to pull out the members that remain clinging to the cult.
We'll be back Friday with another main episode of LAST PODCAST ON THE LEFT. Hail yourself!
Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Joseph DeLappe uses GTA to call attention to gun violence statistics
Joseph DeLappe is no stranger to using games to make big political points, and his newest art project is just as upsetting as its description sounds: using real gun violence data, a self-playing version of GTA V will run for one year (between 4th of Julys) and will visually display the accurate number of homicides involving guns each day. This is all streamed on Twitch for your enjoyment (?) education (?) anger. Hopefully, it can serve as a call to arms, or whatever exactly the opposite of th...