No kings means no billionaires.
If someone grabs you by the pussy, you can punch them, bite them, run away. If you are trapped in the same room as them, you must prevent them from being...
it can get better
A few weeks ago my father was discharged from the hospital again and I brought him to his room in our home again because there was no other place that would...
get ahead of the future or relive the worst of the past
edit: When I wrote the below last night, my phrase “invading Venezuela” was a guess. Today it’s a fact. Speed is real. Speed kills. We need to catch up if...
12 good things
This recipe for king oyster mushrooms has two steps. It’s essentially a key for unlocking a wonderful flavor. Like learning how to peel a mandarin orange.“So...
All’s well that ends well.
But endings are hard. alright wrap it up, we're done, idk how we're gonna top this one pic.twitter.com/8w0Ndly7nb— mr pussy (@mrpxssy) December 13, 2025 The...
Technologies of representation
If bad people take over politics, does that mean politics is bad? Should we abandon the public sphere, retreat into our caves, and let the rapists and...
Thinking of you
I had promised that I would digitize, translate and publish my mother’s first book by the time of her birthday, November 23. But I have failed to do so....
Only hard work creates value.
Last night I made mediocre Korean food. We could all taste it. Bland, tough, sour. A gallery of disappointments. The fault, of course, was entirely mine. I...
Cooked
If you do nothing else, watch this: As noted here many years ago, it’s much cheaper to produce bullshit than the truth. And we, in America, are ruled by the...
The path of most resistance
A drunk person came into our house last week and threatened to steal all of our belongings. Unless we paid him off. (You can read about it here. Please vote...
Pee Pee Oh!
If you’re reading this, you’re quite good at abstraction. You can turn ideas into words and words into actions. That power – that privilege – can also be a...
suffering fools
The word “fool” has been cheapened. It used to mean a crazy person. That’s the correct meaning. A person who has lost their wits. We in the USA currently...
The Center Must Not Hold
A few years back it became fashionable for clever people who read clever books to quote a poem from 1919 called “The Second Coming”. They bemoaned that “the...
good news that can still happen
Let me tell you the good that can still happen. My 13 year-old son is very meticulous. Almost, to a flaw. He’s been penalized at school – and at home – for...
eggy
When you think about it, it’s kind of funny. The world’s most powerful, most advanced civilization let an absolute baby destroy their machinery from the...
The States
Kids understand the world differently: as places of opportunity for play. So it was that at age 8, walking down the sidewalk with my father, I saw a brown...
Gelasia
I came into this world by my mother and she left this world by me. I invite you to read some of what she wrote a decade ago when she had the occasion to...
Going forward.
Like almost everyone else alive, and who has ever lived, I want to please people. So I preface this letter with a hopeful statement that is also true: The...
Simple
1877-present Because I live at the epicenter of the zone that is being flooded, my nervous system is an alternating current of exhaustion and outrage. There...
Shameless
If we don’t want to be trapped in war, abroad and at home, we must recover our shame. I come from a different time. I believe that there are certain things...