So, I started estrogen a few weeks back and the court date for my legal name change is tomorrow. My egg has been a nesting doll. There are a handful of reasons for that: * Religious repression baked into my being * The "Pure O" OCD making it a complex
I recently moved all of my prescriptions from Capsule (because they wouldn't fill my Ritalin) to the Walgreen's inside of Howard Brown Health's Rogers Park location. In their waiting area, they have two big framed boards full of vintage gay rights pins. These are
Best Descendents song? Best Descendents song.
A few days before No Closer to Heaven came out in 2015, I downloaded a .ZIP of it and was convinced I'd gotten a bad rip. I hadn't. Apparently, quite a few fans (and even the band themselves) hated it more than I did. I got
The title of this post is a favorite saying of one of my career mentors, Amanda Bernard. I could think of no better way to describe what I'm sharing here: a near-comprehensive playlist of songs that have meant a lot to me over the years. I've
Songs
"When I was small, I made a lot of mistakes/ Then I grew up and learned it wasn't quite that way/ If I had known back then, it wasn't my fault/ It might have affected the way that I acted/ With confidence instead of hiding
Videos
Originally released on the incredible 1993 LP Come On Feel The Lemonheads. This is one of my favorite Lemonheads songs. I've played it on and off for two decades, and it was a fun one via which to learn all of this video editing. Very few writers do
News
An old bandmate once told me I should write an autobiography. At the time, I didn’t necessarily think there was anything special about my story. Of course, we all think our story is interesting, but I’d never done much outside of that band that I thought anyone would
Dead Mall Punk
