New Year, Old You.  2025 was bullshit. I think we can all agree. It’s 2026 now, and it’s time to throw the old body over a railing and beat it like musty rug, maybe run it through the washing machine on the heavy-duty cycle in hot water with a half cup of bleach. You don’t […]

Be the Best Impostor You Can Be. In a world where everyone’s fakin’ it to make it, ain’t nobody the real deal, which means the only natural response is to become the best impostor you possibly can. Fool everyone. Fool yourself. Ride your bike. Shut up. Music pick of the week: Robot – The New […]

Separating the Art from the Artist. Occasionally you encounter a piece of art, a book, a song, a painting, maybe even a performance, that moves you to the point that it alters the way you see the world, but then you find out the artist responsible is a terrible human, and it leaves you wondering […]

Transcendental Romanticism. We may come off as a little gruff and prone to fits of melancholy and wild perturbation, but really, we’re just sensitive, romantic even. Our nostalgia is a romance for the past, a desperate clinging to things we never fell out of love with, like zines, skateboards, obscure music, artists, etc. Today we […]

In the Shadow of the Valley. Middle-age is a real problem, mainly because it comes with most of the challenges of old age, deteriorating body, addled mind, divorce, asteroids, and existential crisis, but you’ve still got to have a job and pretend you care about stuff. Sadly, also, you lose friends and mentors, and today […]

It Only Hurts When I Exist. Oh, we’ve all had our share of boo-boos, but a few stand out, and today we’re gonna tell our best injury and mishap stories and try to figure out which pain was the most painful pain of them all, besides of course the soul pain inherent in everyday human […]

The Sunk Time Fallacy. People have a funny way of plowing their energy into bad ideas, and once they’ve made that initial investment, they keep going just to prove to themselves that the original idea wasn’t a bad one. We do this with jobs, relationships, and religions. The fear of change is one factor. Ego […]

The Day in Front of Us. Whether you’re rich or poor, sick or well, lazy or really, really lazy, you have to figure out what to do with your day. That seems like the fundamental conundrum facing humanity, and sure, the less money or health you have maybe the more of those choices get made […]

Good Dope, Bad Dope. Whether you’re a street junky or not, you spend a lot of your day looking for the next little bump of dopamine. Whole oligarchies have grown up around the business of selling you small doses of your own brain chemicals. You hate that, but keep scrolling, because ultimately we’re all addicted […]

Putting Baby in the Corner. You’re a grown ass person with decades of life experience and refined tastes, and yet, somewhere in your mental closet you’ve got an array of awkward nostalgic loves for people, places and things that no longer fit your view of yourself as a person, like when you smoked weed and […]