Sleep Paralysis

My dearest Night Hags: It’s back to school season, which means prime time for the most tedious of all anxiety dreams: the school related ones. Give me Freddy Kreuger any day over a variation on (1) didn’t study for my test (2) can’t remember my locker combination (3)...

Alienheimer

My dearest little green men: Happy August! I hope you have been surviving our Season of Apocalypse, aka the hottest summer on record. Climate Change is here, and she’s pissed! Of course, by “here,” I don’t mean HERE, lol. No heat dome, just the crabbiest clouds and...

The Pest House

Language is a hot topic these days. You can’t shake a stick without hitting a concerned centrist who thinks the use of the term “pregnant people” heralds the downfall of civilization. As a country, we are deep in the trenches of the stupidest culture wars to date,...

A Nightmare with 1001 Demons

My dearest spectral locomotives: Summer is almost here! It finally fucking stopped raining in San Francisco! Praise Karl! My son said to me, “Weird, I don’t get your newsletter anymore,” and I was like “uhhhh it’s because I haven’t written one” so I decided to make up...

California Gothic

My dearest leprechauns: First of all – Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Which was last week but I hope you (a) got drunk and (b) did not get pinched by an attention-seeking reprobate. I am firmly on the record in opposition to that stupid tradition employed by only the...