New post on Jan 5th. Happy Holidays!

Nobody Wants to Hear You Sing About Tragedy

I think we all might be pretentious assholes. My roommates and I don’t necessarily hate Fall Out Boy, but we wouldn’t call ourselves fans either. It’s not that we dislike the music, it’s just that we dislike the people that make up Fall Out Boy. We had a listening party for the new album Folie [...]

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A Battered Old Suitcase to a Hotel Someplace

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There were a lot of things I expected to miss when I moved to California.
A lot of people, a lot of places, a lot of food. None of it was surprising at this point, considering that I had lived in eight cities in the 22 years I’ve lived. But [...]

Currently flying back to California. Essay on Tom Waits’ “San Diego Serenade” will be up in the afternoon (EST) on Tuesday.