Will We Succumb To The Fungi?

I feel like I’ve been fighting a cold since 2019. Allergy season has become allergy years. It seems like every other day I’ve got drainage going down the back of my throat, with the follow up feeling of wanting to just cough up whatever was draining in the first place. I’d think that maybe there […]

Snorting Pumpkin Spice(and other not-so good ideas for Fall)

It’s finally here. That time of year when hoodies and jeans are a staple of the Midwest fashion diet. Sure, there’s some that try to hurry that fashion trend into regular rotation at the beginning of September, but they’re the ones sweating walking from their car to the grocery because they saw dew on the […]

Just A Few Words Before The World Ends

At first I thought I was coming down with a bug. My whole head felt hot, like I was running a fever. The air leaving my nostrils was hot as well. My face would feel prickly and my neck was tight and sore. Surely I’m coming down with some sort of strange bug. This would […]

Ode To A Friday

From the 4th grade up to 9th grade my favorite day of the week was Friday. That’s not all together odd, really. I mean, I’m sure there were LOTS of people whose favorite day of the week was Friday. For me it started around 3pm when we’d get all of our graded tests and homework […]

It Doesn’t Matter If We All Die…

I couldn’t stand The Cure in high school, man. Something about that dark, doomed gnome that caked his face white with red lipstick and teased his hair high to the sky that really bugged me. Robert Smith. Come on, man. What did he have to be so depressed about? He was making a living playing […]

Women And Van Halen First

There was a time in the early 90s where if you admitted to being a fan of Van Halen you were ostracized by everyone around you; family, friends, neighbors, that nice senior couple that lived down the street and even the clergy. There were camps set up across the US where admitted Van Halen fans […]

Song And Dance, Man

So last night we took a little break from the normal evening shuffle and headed into my son’s elementary school for the school musical. Now if you’re someone of my age bracket(older than 41, but younger than 43), you might remember the elementary school musicals like I do, which is to say they were sort of […]

A Saucerful Of Strawberries

Last year I bought Eternal Tapestry’s album Wild Strawberries completely on a whim. Well, honestly I think Thrill Jockey Records forced me to. You see, they send me emails and entice me with “preorders” and “limited edition” things. These limited editions I speak of are only available if you buy the record a couple months […]

One More F*****g Synthesizer Album

As if I didn’t have enough of these dated sounding synthesizer-heavy records, I had to go out buy one more. You know, I think if you threw these on the record player and played them for me blindfolded I wouldn’t be able to tell any of them apart. Why? Because once you’ve heard one antiquated […]

In The Land Of Hoops And Homophobes

Yes, I’m from Indiana. I was born here and raised here. I graduated high school in Indiana and attempted a higher education in the Hoosier state. However, I found my higher education inside books by Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, John Irving, and Henry Miller; as well as Bertrand Russell, Noam Chomsky, and Howard Zinn. […]