Greetings, Earthlings! My name is Scott Thill, and I launched alt-culture pusher Morphizm.com on July 4 2001.
I’m currently a freelance journalist for Wired, AlterNet, Filter, Huffington Post, LA Weekly and more. Much of my work for them is repurposed on this site in short form, alongside longer and more in-depth original articles from myself and other writers. In the past, I have written for Salon, The Nation, AOL, LA Weekly, The Guardian UK, Punk Planet, Popmatters and others I will have to remember. I’m currently at work on a couple books, a couple films and other things journos like to do in their spare time. When they have spare time.
Contributing writers for Morphizm over the last seven years have varied wildly. Here are some:
Ross M. Levine is an author, Swiftophile, activist judge and manatee-hugger who feels safer on the edge (in New York or California). He’s currently at work on his novel The Romantichondriac.
Author of the recent AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War, Tom McNichol’s work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, Washington Post and others, including the late, great Spy mag. Respect!
Greg Palast is author of Armed Madhouse, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, and an investigative journo for the UK’s Observer and Guardian newspapers, and BBC Television’s Newsnight. His official site is here.
Andy Singer is a freelance cartoonist living in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His work appears mostly in alternative weeklies and monthlies in the US and abroad, including The Athens News, Salt Lake City Weekly, Eugene Weekly, La Décroissance, The East Bay Monthly, Z Magazine and more. Every once in a while, he gets published in a mainstream publication like The New Yorker. But this is rare.
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and author of the scary-as-hell Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, as well as the amazing No Logo. Her articles have appeared in The Nation, The NY Times, The Village Voice, The Guardian and more. Visit her here.
Amy Bass is associate prof of history at the College of New Rochelle, and the author of many titles, including In The Game: New Essays on Race, Identity, and Sports. Don’t step to her unless you got game.
James Kunstler is the author of The Geography of Nowhere and the recently released The Long Emergency, as well as the only guy in a bowtie Morphizm doesn’t want to crush into a pulp.
Mo Herms is a dopeshit DJ and music journo who’s served time at the East Bay Express, Berkeley’s KALX, Little Radio and more. We go so far back together that we need a time machine to make it back to the future. Dig into her blog here.
Laura Picard is a L.A.-based writer and editor who refuses to write any more screenplays. She has written for AOL, Turner Classic Movies, AlterNet and the august pub you are now reading.
Stacy Borah is a Long Beach-based writer who crawls on rooftops installing solar panels for money. He’s working on the Second Greatest American Novel and thinks the Internet is a tool of Satan.
Alexander Laorenza is a writer, musician, and graduate student living in Rhode Island. He has contributed to Beyond Hollywood and more. His band MakeupBreakup is signed to S.A.F. Records.
Heina Dadabhoy is a frustrated Orange County poet who, like the greatest frustrated poet of them all, turned to philosophy when the poetry gave out. She currently studies English and Philosophy at UC Irvine by day and teaches examination preparation by night.
Arianna Huffington is nationally syndicated columnist as well as an author of more books than you. To keep up on her, click here.
Cynthia Fuchs is film-tv-viddy editor at PopMatters and Associate Professor of English/Media/Afr-Am studies at George Mason University, as well the author of Spike Lee: Interviews.
Nathan Means performs with cacophonous aplomb for Washington D.C.’s post-rock badasses, Trans Am, whose newest release, Liberation, is insulting a red-state citizen somewhere near you.
Gary Morris is the hilarious publisher of the balls-to-the-wall (sometimes literally) Bright Lights Film Journal. You should be reading it from cover to digital cover. No test afterwards.
Ryan Gray is a an infrequent bassist and freelance journalist who’s eked out an existence on the outskirts of LA. He has written for Copely Press and Knight Ridder/Tribune newspapers.
Andy Hermann’s work has appeared in pubs like BPM, Popmatters and more. He is also an editor and blogger for ArtistDirect.com, as well as a hard-working DJ in the city of Los Angeles.
