Earnest Pettie’s Rough Draft – Page 2 – Half-formed thoughts from Earnest Pettie

My favorite projects of 2023

I saw someone post on Bluesky asking people to bring to Bluesky the tradition of posting threads containing...

Earnest PettieDec 20, 20231 Comment

Experiencing: “Flowers” Premiere

Last night, we had the premiere for Flowers, the documentary series I’ve been working on for a year...

Earnest PettieDec 2, 20231 Comment

Any minute now

We should be hitting the annual peak of people searching for tryptophan any minute now.

Earnest PettieNov 23, 2023

Experiencing: Pink’s Summer Carnival

On Thursday, Claire and I went to see Pink’s Summer Carnival concert at Sofi. I’m not the biggest...

Earnest PettieOct 7, 2023

Work: Flowers, a documentary series celebrating Black creativity

I’ve spent the past year working on this project, but it would be more accurate to say I’ve...

Earnest PettieOct 1, 2023

Reading: Taylor Lorenz’s “Extremely Online”

As I was finishing up Ben Smith’s Traffic, I messaged Taylor Lorenz that finishing Ben’s book had made...

Earnest PettieOct 1, 2023

Experiencing: Art Laboe Connection

It’s the end of a very long week in what has been a very long month during a...

Earnest PettieSep 23, 2023

Fresh Start

I lost my last website, which was less one site and really 20 years of blog posts from...

Earnest PettieSep 10, 20231 Comment

Meta-Irony and Gen Z

An explanation of meta-irony and why it's a standard mode of discourse for the digitally native Gen Z.

Earnest PettieSep 7, 2023

Liminal Spaces may be the most 2020 of all trends

A modern media phenomenon is a reminder of the purgatory of the pandemic.

Earnest PettieSep 6, 20231 Comment