Sometimes You Just Have to Blow It Up. Nine days out of ten, we’re sleep walking, so it should come as no surprise when things get tragically off-course. Maybe it’s a relationship, maybe it’s a job, maybe it’s your whole life. You pack it with kindling and douse it with kerosene. You strike a match. […]

You and Your Younger Self Walk Into a Bar. How much of the story that we tell ourselves is really true?  Were we really that cool, that rad or that fast?  Or have we spent the years telling ourselves what we want to hear, slowly filling in the gaps between who we actually were and […]

Meet Me at the Goat Parade. All over the world people sensed a disturbance in the force, two powerful forces colliding, as though gravity shuddered and let out a fart. What happened was Robot and I met up at the MADE fancy-ass bicycle show, and now we’re gonna tell you all about our adventures there. […]

The Monster Truck Jam of the Planet of the Apes. The human condition is a cage we’ve spent nearly 300,000 years trying to escape from. Can we kill a wooly mammoth? Actually, we can kill ‘em all. Can we jump a rocket car across the Snake River Canyon? No. Apparently not. Through the millennia we’ve […]

You can pick your nose, and you can pick your music, but can you pick your friend’s nose music? We’ve already named around 500 great albums for you to listen to, but do you even lift, bro? I mean, are we talking to ourselves here? Well, just in case anyone is listening, we’re each going […]

A Typewriter, a Telephone, a Silver-Plated Whistle. If the phrase ‘sentimental value’ means anything to you, then you are one of the very many humans who have invested an everyday object with value beyond its usefulness. Why are we so eager to invest things with meaning or value or even supernatural powers? Music Picks: Robot […]

3 records, 2 movies and a book. Most humans think they’re complicated, but in reality, pop culture captures most of our personalities and feeds them back to us in shiny packages with long credits lists. Today, we sift through the media that express our personalities most succinctly. Music Picks: Robot – Quicksand – Bring on […]

Don’t Kill Yourself. We’re losing too many good people for bad reasons. We get it. We’ve been there. We’ve done the math too. Life can feel like way too much. But we’re gonna be really pissed off if you kill yourself, because it takes a whole village of idiots to make the kind of place […]

Getting to the Point. Guys, guys, guys, listen. We know we have a hard time getting to the point and sticking to the point and staying on schedule and remembering to breathe, but we have some strategies for doing a better job, and actually we’re not even sure doing a better job is worth that […]

Eating Crumpets with Emily Post. You know, you wouldn’t think a couple of guys like us thinks much about etiquette, but au contraire, we’re dedicated to getting along with most of the folks who are also dedicated to getting along with us, so we try to be considerate, polite even, and today we’re gonna try […]