Mortuary Nationalism

My dearest partisans: We’re going off book on this spooky channel to talk about politics today – but I promise it’s fucking weird. Once in a while the stars line up and present a goth political story so good that I would be denying the two wolves inside of...

Madame Gasquet’s Gravesite

I spend a lot of time in very, very Northern California. Not like Mendocino north, or even Emerald Triangle north.  More like STATE OF JEFFERSON north. This is a remote, rugged, gorgeous part of the state with some really interesting history. Some of the largest...

Teeth

My dearest pagan idols: Happy Spring! My body is viciously rejecting the beautiful weather and sunshine that are causing the entire Bay Area to bloom! Why would it want to usher in the season of life when it can remind me daily that I am simply a bag of reactive cells...

Life’s a Beach

My dearest monsters on the wing from Twilight Zone the Movie: have a different kind of newsletter for you today. It’s just – all jokes. There’s literally no content in here, no citations, no history, just something I composed mostly in the Notes app as I was...

Like a Moth to Artificial Flame

My dearest agents of decay: Happy New Year! It’s FEBRUARY and I’m finally getting around to writing the first newsletter of the year which does not bode well, you guys. January felt like it lasted one hundred days and half of them I spent making TikTok videos about...