Archive • A. B. and C. • Buttondown

Extra, extra! Bleed all about it

In late April, 2016, I painstakingly crafted a pitch about the 20th anniversary of one of my favourite albums and offered it up to a beloved pop culture...

loud and destructive and lethal to mice

I was on the radio last weekend. I have very little that I want to say about the appearance or the trial. I expected to feel a lot of things surrounding the...

Dance Mix '93 What Hell Hath You Wrought

February 26, 2021

I don’t have to write the thing I mentioned last week anymore and I can share it with you! I wrote about Music and what I thought was missing from the...

Tetsuya Endo Is The Best

February 19, 2021

Me neither!Greetings from the purgatory between the heaven of getting a pitch accepted and the hell of having to write the story. I’m looking forward to...

I am not the CanCon James Frey

February 12, 2021

she looked a lot more like Cox in person and other photos, ok?I didn’t have time to write a newsletter this week because I was working on a very important...

Toilets and Porn

February 5, 2021

Hi! I’m alive! I’m still doing this thing, I guess!I had to take a couple of weeks off because my already low productivity has become exponentially more...

I'm not writing anything right now

January 8, 2021

I don’t feel like writing anything this week and I can’t possibly imagine any one of you feel like reading my bullshit at this particular moment in time so...

So that happened.

January 1, 2021

A year ago, I was sitting in a half-packed apartment building, getting ready to vacate my home of almost eight years so that it could be, like everything in...

I could have been someone

December 25, 2020

Arcadia loves her present.It’s Christmas if you’re into that kind of thing.If not, happy second anniversary of the time I drunk purchased multiple stuffed...

To George, With Love (From Anne)

December 18, 2020

I have an Ikea bookshelf box just for him because I am a nerd. There’s runoff.Yeah, I butchered the inscription on Karla’s stolen lighter to make a To Sir,...

I didn't plan it, but the theme this week is men with shoulder-length hair

December 11, 2020

I accomplished two things in the past week that I probably shouldn’t be giving equal weight, but best of lists, much like time, have even less meaning in the...

Give us a ring-a-ding-ding. It's a beautiful day

December 4, 2020

Is there anything more humbling and defeating to a struggling writer than getting your first royalty reporting from an underperforming book? Probably. But...

Better late than never

November 29, 2020

I’m still alive. In body, at least.I ran out of time to write a newsletter a week ago Friday because I was writing a piece about one big, awful autism story...