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
Hubris.When I left my parents’ apartment at 17, I swear to god, I never thought I’d be mad about my childhood. I don’t mean, “I’ll love my family…Dec 6, 2018Dec 6, 2018
Truth as Public PropertyI was raped, once. I don’t remember much of it. I made no attempt to either remember, or forget, the event. My brain was too loud for that…Dec 6, 2018Dec 6, 2018
rimsOne of the first trauma patients that I was the assigned medic for was young. So, so young. 19 years old. He’d been shot in a Wal-Mart…Dec 6, 2018Dec 6, 2018
You Did That for a ReasonI called my mom earlier this year. I don’t remember what it was about; it might’ve been my birthday, or hers. I think it might’ve been…Dec 6, 2018Dec 6, 2018
Theory of the Internet Nazi PersonalityAnonymous asked: dude I am all the way down for hearing your Theory of the Internet Nazi Personality if you ever feel like writing it up…Dec 6, 2018Dec 6, 2018
Let’s us talk about Suitsaight suits have come up a lot today. let me try to cobble this together real quickDec 6, 2018Dec 6, 2018
A Soft-Hearted Idealist Forged in The Fires of “Who Gives A Shit?”I used to be friends with this kid named Min. Friends? Frenemies. We were both in Gifted and Talented classes, and shared a mutual friend…Dec 6, 2018Dec 6, 2018
A critical response to “on the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit”I was recently linked an article about the human ability to detect what it describes as “pseudo-profound bullshit”; IE, “seemingly…Dec 6, 2018Dec 6, 2018
