Author Archives: M.L. Schepps

It’s been a genuine blessing to have found a home for some of my more niche and esoteric essays/reflections on popular culture. We Are The Mutants is a fantastic site that has been very good to me and I’m quite grateful to them for publishing this essay I thoroughly enjoyed reading James Herbert’s “Rats Trilogy”Continue reading ““Eaten Alive: James Herbert’s ‘Rats Trilogy’” for We Are the Mutants”

“BoJack Horseman,” was a real triumph of a television show. It spoke to me, and a lot of other people, about issues of addiction, mental illness, and the weight of family legacies; about despair and hope and internalized narratives. We started meeting for this zine back in January and boy, did a lot change betweenContinue reading “Is It Just Me Or Are We Nailing This? Essays on BoJack Horseman”

This is another piece I’m very proud of. I am a massive fan of “We Are The Mutants,” and am very glad to have been featured on their website. It’s an essay I’ve thought about for a very long time, one that looks at the vast gulf between the ideals espoused in the environmental mediaContinue reading ““The Rot At The Root” for We Are The Mutants”

I have been intrigued by the life of pioneering Chinese-American immigrant Seid Back ever since I first was “introduced” to him in The Oregonian archives. Here was a fascinating man who straddled multiple realms of identity in Oregon’s early history, who protected his community in the face of virulent persecution, who made a fortune inContinue reading “Seid Back for Oregon Encyclopedia”