Thoughts On Adapting My Slasher Novella Into A Screenplay
So, a while back in October last year, I mentioned how I had written my first slasher novella since high school. It was a fun little project titled Cutthroat. Here’s the updated synopsis: A group of job applicants arrive at a highrise for an interview, only to find themselves trapped and fighting for their lives…
Is Speed Dating Worth It In 2026?
(NOTE: The above does not typically happen during a speed dating event.) Yesterday, I attended my first speed dating event in nearly 15 years. To put that in perspective, in 2011 we were only on the iPhone 4S. Bitcoin was as low as thirty cents. I hadn’t even moved out to the frozen hellscape of…
How Boomers Actually Got Screwed By Cheap Housing
The true cost of buying a house for a “pint of blueberries.” Every once in a while I like to indulge in a bit of “nostalgia-gazing.” This is when you look backward and become wistfully lost in reminiscence. Maybe you look up old neighborhoods or homes you lived in, schools you attended, or places you…
Traveling Is Overrated, Part II (My Vacation Experience in Central Europe)
Seeing eight countries in two weeks was equal parts thrilling, grueling, exhausting, memorable, frustrating, educational, culturally enriching, and accompaned by a gutting sensory overload. Overall, I enjoyed the trip, but will never do one like this again. Last year I visited Thailand with a quick pitstop over in the Philippines for what was mostly a…
Thoughts On Writing A Slasher
Recently, I completed the first draft of a slasher novella I’ve titled CUTTHROAT that I began in early September. The premise is stupifyingly simple, though, like many of my works, it’s riddled with satiric malice and dark humor: A group of job applicants arrive at a sleek highrise for a coveted position, but find themselves…
There’s Something About The Endearing 90’s-ness of ‘There’s Something About Mary’
For some reason, this movie popped into my head recently, and I just had to rewatch it. I don’t know why. I seem to recall seeing it in theaters while on a beach vacation in Ocean City, Maryland back in the summer of 1998. Though the film actually stayed in theaters for over a year.…
Links To My Recent Articles, A Quick Comment About Medium, and Other Updates
Here are links to a bunch of articles I’ve written on Medium but just haven’t cross-posted here on my personal site. In order of recency: Women Are Willing To Sell Their Bodies To Pay Off Student Loans “You Must Be This Tall To Ride This Ride” Some Very Disturbing (And Gross) Stats About STDs, Especially…
Seriously, WTF?
A billboard in Bismarck, ND blew my mind. I had to go out of town recently for a dentist appointment as medical service providers are few and far between in the great stupid state of North Dakota. Since there was nobody in network in my town, and my previous dentist office hardly ever has an…
Our Decades Don’t Have Cool Nicknames Anymore
The Trumpy Twenties? The Terrible Twenties? The Turbulent Twenties? The Spendy Twenties? Just spit ballin’ here. I truly believe that in the year 2000 our timeline somehow got diverted into the Shithole Dimension in which we currently reside. How? I blame Y2K. We were supposed to let that supposed “glitch” play out, not “fix” it.…
Why Western Birth Rates Have Collapsed
What population and fertility trends in Nigeria say about the West. Despite not having any kids, I’ve become intrigued lately by all the doomsdayers out there raising alarms about birthrates and replacement rates. Elon Musk, who has 14 children with five different women himself, talks about it almost every day on X. Recently, he retweeted a…
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