I watched The Closer, so you don’t have to.There’s something bothering me about the discourse surrounding Dave Chappelle’s The Closer. It’s the implication that his friendship with…Oct 18, 2021Oct 18, 2021
High FlyerMany commercial pilots come from a military background. I was told that you can tell where they came from — Air Force, civilian training…Sep 9, 2021Sep 9, 2021
The Ballad of iPad JoeI used to do most of my shopping at night. This wasn’t by design. Night just happened to be when I was awake. As you can imagine, options…Jun 22, 2021Jun 22, 2021
The absurd is normal. Everything else is weird.My grandmother died recently. I say “recently”, but this is “recently” according to an ADHD timescale, or a COVID timescale. “Recently”, is…May 6, 2021May 6, 2021
Work GrandpaI worked in the ER from the age of 20, to 23. Somewhere in there — late in the second year, I think — an Army Reserve RN from another…Mar 7, 2021Mar 7, 2021
Alright, so here’s the deal. I worked in an emergency room a long time ago.It doesn’t feel like that long; honestly, a lot of what’s happened since then registers as little more than a blur.Jul 13, 2020Jul 13, 2020
A visit to, and thoughts on, the CHAZ(Look, I know it’s called CHOP now but that sounds awful. let me be)Jun 16, 2020Jun 16, 2020
Ideology is a Fuck: Disco ElysiumDisco Elysium is a writer’s game. You can tell from the first because there’s a lot of big words, but they aren’t made-up science fiction…Nov 12, 20191Nov 12, 20191
On not being the “target audience”When I first enlisted in the Army, the going was rough, as one expects. The idea is to get the enlistee accustomed to functioning under…Dec 21, 2018Dec 21, 2018
ThomasWhen I was 17, I dropped out of high school. I got lucky and picked up a paying internship at a graphic design firm a few months later.Dec 6, 2018Dec 6, 2018
