Matchy-Matchy (Eight Years)

December 9th, 2025 I know exactly how that raccoon feels. The shame and guilt and all that existential crisis garbage. But it’s been a minute. I’m eight years sober today. I know I’ve been missing lately from your social media diet. (The FDA no longer recommends me.) Like I mentioned in a previous post, theContinue reading “Matchy-Matchy (Eight Years)”

The Blame Game

September 25th, 2025 There has been so much nonsense this week that I personally don’t believe deserves addressing. But as the dad of an autistic child, I do have one thing to say. I know it’s our fault. It’s our fault that we created and brought this one-of-a-kind person into the world. It’s our faultContinue reading “The Blame Game”

Picking Cherries

September 16th, 2025 I don’t have to say anything about Charlie Kirk; then again, I don’t have to say anything about anything at all, and yet I keep writing here anyway. Right away, I want to make two things I believe clear: 1. I don’t think anybody should be murdered, and this particular incident wasContinue reading “Picking Cherries”

The Ends of the Earth

September 1st, 2025 There’s a trend, but it’s not new; it’s as old as internet time (was there anything before?). It’s the idea of sharing something that absolutely does not need to be shared, in order to signal to others what tribe or political feed you subscribe to. There’s a version of this making theContinue reading “The Ends of the Earth”

A Little Less Alone

August 28th, 2025 I live in Minnesota, so the morning after a horrific tragedy I wasn’t surprised to open social media and see so much ugly. (A lot of this ugly coming from so-called Christians, who have spent the last decade showing all of us, including their Jesus, who they really are and what theyContinue reading “A Little Less Alone”

Shadows on the Wall

July 22nd, 2025 I’m almost done with my summer Ethics class and I am intolerable. Allow me to annoy you with my pointed criticism of cultural biases (it’s like all I do these days). I’ve written several essays over the years about philosophy. I once talked about how all of it was pointless up toContinue reading “Shadows on the Wall”

Confidence & Perspective

May 7th, 2025 Howdy, y’all. I have an art gallery this weekend at Mind’s Eye Comics in the Burnsville Center that you should totally check out; you should also check out this video where I talk about confidence (and the lack of it), perspective as we grow, and how my gallery is a fight againstContinue reading “Confidence & Perspective”

This Is 40

May 1st, 2025 It’s my birthday today. I love my birthday. I’m awful like that. I also believe that you should cherish celebrating each one, because there will come a point in time when you cannot. That’s dark, but it’s my birthday. So let’s face facts: I’m supposed to be dead. I did all theContinue reading “This Is 40”

Sleeping Dogs

March 24th, 2025 It’s no surprise I’m stressed out (because I live on this planet and this planet does not have its shit together whatsoever); I’m ambitious yet anxious, careful yet crazy, busy yet broke. I was walking past the bed and saw Marvel sleeping under the sun on our sheets, and I will neverContinue reading “Sleeping Dogs”

Bored Room

August 19th, 2024 I don’t give advice, but there are things I say often that I think are worth saying. I wouldn’t call it wisdom; in fact, they’re just words from an arrogant, not-as-smart-as-he-thinks-he-is asshole (these are all choice words said about me in my own comment section over the years). I can’t help butContinue reading “Bored Room”