The New Strangeness
I feel like I don’t know my own country anymore
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There is no coming back from this
The America I thought I knew no longer exists
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Thoughts on Election Day 2024
As I wake up on Election Day 2024, I’m realistic, but I’m feeling hope.
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Millions want this
Donald Trump did not create this ugliness. He merely harnessed it. It’s always been there. It always will be.
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J.D. Vance’s Fascist Ideology
J.D. Vance is a fraud but it’s far worse that he has a long and consistent history of advocating fascist ideology.
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The Trump shooting
Democracy is hanging by a thread. Injecting even more violence into the system than it is already experiencing weakens it even more.
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Looking for the Exits
The potential return of Trump, armed with immunity from all legal consequences and hellbent on advancing a fascist agenda, has me thinking about bugging out.
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Why not?
50 is the new “I got drunk on spring break and got a tattoo”
Read moreIn Search of Godzilla — by Rick Wallach
In Search of Godzilla Myth, Science, and Politics in Ishiro Honda’a Masterpiece By Rick “Old Gator” Wallach Prologue: Monsters and Mythopoesis We need to be of several minds when considering Godzilla, whether the 1954 Japanese original, Gojira, or Transworld’s redacted 1956 American release, Godzilla, King of the Monsters. During the past few decades appreciation […]
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Coast to Coast Diary: The End
My mind was still willing but my body gave out.
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