So here’s the thing about the freedom of speech; it’s an easy win. It’s the first amendment, the one that even those assholes who can’t find Canada on a map can tell you they know. What’s left to say about it that we don’t already know? And even if we can find some nugget of […]
Read more "The Freedom to Lie"So I’m thinking about the development of life on Earth and how consciousness is basically a collection of time in a certain place. It’s the kind of thing that sounds right and sounds wrong at the same time. Because you hear it and go: “Well sure. I am the time it takes to be me. […]
Read more "Time Flies When There’s a Hamster Having Fun in You"Do me a favor. Think about all the situations where you’d realistically find yourself saying the following words: “You know. I thought we were better than this. I really did. Are you gonna make me sit down and hold your hand through every single step of what’s going on here? Jesus Christ you are a […]
Read more "Get Woke or Get Wedgied, Princess Fantastic’s Guide to British Universities"Trauma is a big word. By itself it works like a land mine, exploding out of conversation to devastate the mood of whatever we’re talking about. It tells us something big is here, some unerasable crime. As soon as we hear the word “trauma” we know that whatever we’re talking about was not some accident. […]
Read more "SKIG (Skin In The Game)"ACT 5: MY MOM SAYS I’M THE RANSOMEST BOY IN SCHOOL COMPLIMENT SANDWICH So compliment: Congratulations. We can trust you with Justin. I went to the mat for you on this one, believe me. If I was you I might have just driven his dumb ass off the nearest cliff. But he’s back safely at […]
Read more "Freedom’s Gayest Hostages, The Play That’s Not Acting Ch.7"Any conversation about how natural it is to be naked is almost guaranteed to make you feel like you’re talking to someone who spends too much time in a tanning salon. Chances are that if someone wants to open with the words: “We all come into this world naked you know…” then they want to […]
Read more "5 Things You Didn’t Know About Being Naked"Everyone knows about the old man who came from a different time. Maybe it’s an ignorant grandparent who makes cringe worthy comments and doesn’t understand what the problem is, or an elderly uncle who treats computers like a caveman being shown his first torch Once we take into account the huge changes that things like […]
Read more "Real Change Is Possible and That’s a Fucking Fact"Everywhere TV news crews go, they have the same problem. There’s really no such thing as passively filming a crowd of people who can see there’s a camera, because the second a camera shows up, people make goofy faces and start waiving into it. There’s some instant temptation to it that’s just too strong. From […]
Read more "The “Hi Mom!” Effect: a Beginner’s Guide to Recognizing Game."I met a Russian woman who told me she was half Albanian. It took me a second but then I realized that she was telling me this in confidence, as some secret identity fact that needed guarding. When I realized that’s what was going on, I was happy to tell her the good news. This […]
Read more "The Hot Pockets Bandit"For Damian, the weirdest thing about living in his old West Memphis trailer was the fact that it wasn’t that weird at all. There was no place else to go. Besides, plenty of people are ghosts of their former selves. Plenty of people are cursed. They called his curse injustice, but what does that mean? […]
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