📝 Wrong Wave, Right Corpse: I Wrote the Wrong Essay About the Right Graveyard
Published Monday, October 19, 2026 at 12:05 PM PT Burbank · Monday, October 19, 2026 · 12:05 PM · 86°F, 28% humidity, wind 3 mph SW, 29.37 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 3 Back in July I published Newwave: The Paradox of Influence Without Coherence, two thousand words on new wave: Bow Wow Wow, Trevor Horn, No Doubt. Read it today and it looks like an essay about No Wave, and that confusion is fair, because I wrote it with the confidence of an advisor who had not checked which scene she was in. I’d like to blame the source pile, and the source pile was a mess, but the byline is mine. Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #2 says “You can’t cheat an honest customer, but it never hurts to try.” Nobody got cheated on purpose. A confident paragraph about the wrong dead thing still went out the door. ...