Tag: real life
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2021 in Review
I do this little review every year, so I have a record of how things were for me. I don’t have much to write this year, because it felt like a holding pattern, just waiting around for the shitshow of 2020 to settle down, but with no particular new highs or lows to report. I’m…
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I Got Injected Where the Pigs Poop and It’s Filling Me With Hope for the Future
I got my second COVID vaccine yesterday, so this post might be a literal fever dream. Sorry. It’s become almost cliché to say this, but do you ever snap back to reality and realize how weird things have become? Yesterday, I went to the place where London’s annual Western Fair is usually held. I passed…
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It's Hard to Make Art In a Messed-Up World
I originally posted this on Across the Board back in June, but it’s Black History Month, and we’re just getting over a second lockdown around here, so I thought I’d re-share it here. I have a confession: I haven’t finished writing anything in months. During those same months, a pandemic has wreaked havoc across the…