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The Anecdote Recently, I was huddled in the shower with half my clothes on at two in the morning, like … Read More “Things to Ask Yourself When Your Writing Idea is a Big Nothingburger”
So you have this senseless human yearning to create, and all you know how to make is words. But you … Read More “How to Come Up with Writing Ideas When You Don’t Have Any”
After I moved into a new home last fall, I noticed something. And that something was “like two hundred corpses … Read More “How to Use a Caulking Gun. Sort Of.”
In life, and in society, there’s a lot of all-or-nothing thinking. Either you do something right, or you do it … Read More “Good Enough: The Parable of the English Ivy and the Easily-Bored Person with Back Problems”
I have struggled with “laziness” for a long time. Cleaning is hard to do, and I live in mess — … Read More “It’s Not Laziness, it’s Conservation of Energy.
And It’s Essential For Survival”
Let’s say you are on a boat, and you do not enjoy the sights and sounds of vomiting. You are … Read More “How to Identify a Seasick Person,
and What to Do With Them”
If you’ve ever done a DIY project that involved fastening stuff together, then you might know the psychological pain of … Read More “Adventures in Screwing:
Five Debatable Lessons in the Quest to Make DIY Projects Less Terrible”
This blog is, largely, about interests I have taken up that either did not or probably will not survive. There … Read More “Five Reasons to Try the Bird Dork Lifestyle
(and One Reason Why You Shouldn’t)”
The other night, I came home from work exhausted. I walked the dog, fed her, put food in my mouth, … Read More “These Are Your Drugs on Grapefruit Juice:
How Fruit Can Fuck With Your Medication”
In 1775-ish-or-so, a German physician named Melchior Adam Weikard published a medical text called Der Philosophische Arzt (The Philosophical Doctor). … Read More “Introduction: In Which I am Roasted By Melchior”