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...

Happy Holidays

My dearest Ghosts of Christmas Present: Happy Holidays! Hanukkah has started and Christmas is still two weeks away THANK GOD because I am not prepared. I have a big family and lots of travel and LOTS OF BULLSHIT to attend to INCLUDING a sixteen page spreadsheet to...

Ghosts of the Mission

Intro October is here and you know where there are probably a shitload of ghosts? The Mission District! First of all, that is a very old part of town. It was occupied by Native Americans before the Spanish got here, and then when they did . . . it wasn’t great, was...