Water Babies

My dearest glowing eyes in the dark forest: I sometimes use this newsletter as a travelogue. I am clinically unable to sit still for more than five minutes and I make a lot of questionable decisions based on an unceasing need for activity. Decisions like driving out...

Tourism Ireland

My dearest Jack Skellington stans: Halloween is coming!!! And you know what is going to really make you feel super spooky-ooky and excited BUT ALSO LIKE A SOPHISTICATED GOTH HISTORIAN? Tourism Ireland’s new Halloween campaign. Trick or Treat? (Video Still: Tourism...

Psychogeography

My dearest Sirens: How is everyone’s summer going??? Here in the heart of FOGUST I am feeling pensive and ready for Fall. I spent enough time traveling to places that have actual summer, so I melted my bones a little and I’m gearing up for my real high season: the...

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...

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...