SPOILER ALERT: Readings is a name I am trying out for any articles exploring the themes of a piece/pieces of art from a specific perspective. There will be spoilers therein. Pluribus is the newest show created by Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul). Season one concluded recently, and
The Lonely Island's second feature-length film, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, is one of the best comedies of the 21st century. It's gained cult status as such in the years since its commercial failure, but it's still a bummer that it's not
Here it is again: the most autistic thing I do! I missed doing my list last year because, well, life has been a lot lately for reasons both universal and very personal. I'll mention right here that my number one album of last year (and the 2020s) was
I've been a daily internet user since around 1995/6. I know now that my fascination with the information I could find online is connected to Autism. The communities of like-minded souls I found in chat rooms and discussion boards provided a type of connection I struggled to
"Rich Man (phone demo)" / "Limping Toward Gomorrah (phone demo)" by Damned Praise I wrote these two songs within the past month or so. I intend to record fully-produced versions of them in the future, but wanted to share the demos now. "Rich Man" This
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
"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
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
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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