before the year dies
Hey fellow Last Piners, I’ve been getting really into hardcore again lately. Particularly early 2000s hardcore of the chaotic variety, also known by a...
Every Leaf a Flower
Greetings Last Piners, Someday I’ll get better at updating this thing more than once every few months. Maybe. Or probably not. Thanks for sticking with me,...
Bump in the Dark Nominated for Best Indie TTRPG!
Hello fellow Last Piners, I just wanted to take a moment to announce that Bump in the Dark: Revised Edition is a finalist for the 2025 CRIT Awards in the...
City of Ghosts
Hello Last Piners, I hope the Spring is treating you well. It’s been a bit of a strange one here, but the weather finally seems to have equalized and I’m...
Breaking Out
Hey Last Piners, Hope everything is going as well as can be in your part of the world. Kinda feels like everything is on fire and/or totally fucked all the...
Heartbroken in Community Together
I woke up this morning before my alarm went off and stared at the ceiling. I tried to put off checking my phone as long as I could. I spent last night with...
Last Days of Summer
Dear Last Piners, With summer winding down into autumn, I find myself feeling reflective. I’m thinking a lot about this newsletter and what it’s for, and...
And we're live
Dear Reader, Provided everything goes correctly with this scheduled email, by the time you read this, Bump in the Dark: Revised Edition will have gone live...
Next Stop: Last Stop
Hey friends, Well. I watched I Saw the TV Glow last weekend and I’m kinda still processing it. I’m working on a longer piece to help me do so, and I imagine...
From the Firmament
Working to actually send out an update once a month; so far we’re on track for doing so three whole months in a row so I’m feeling mighty proud of myself....
Breaking Out from Breakout
Howdy from Milwaukee, where snow is currently blanketing everything and it feels more like December than March. As some of you know, I recently returned from...
But I Dreamt We Were All Beautiful & Strong
Hey everybody! Exciting news -- after Substack's very public unwillingness to deplatform literal white supremacists, we've landed at Buttondown. We'll see...
Time to find a new home
in other words fuck substack lol
Playing Catch-Up
The longer I go without updating this, the more anxiety I have about doing so, and the longer I put it off. Huh. How weird.
The antidote to avoidance is acceptance
If it’s alright with y’all, I’m going to take some time to talk about some clinical stuff I’ve been excited about recently. This is geeky psych stuff, so if...
Words & Actions
Chris Gethard at the X-Ray Arcade Got Me Reflecting on the Nature of Parenting -- of being a parent, and of having been parented.
Welcome to Last Pine
It’s been a minute again, but here I am, checking in. There’s been a big life update since the last time we talked. Last month, I left the hospital where...
Another day in Iron Country
I’ve been uhhh not great about updating this thing regularly. Has it really been since March? And since November since I actually wrote an update? Wow. Well,...
time is all wounds
Hey! Sorry for the long silence. Time kind of got away from me. I still plan on finishing my piece about PBT and I have some big news that I will be able to...
Action Without Vision
More mental health/psychology-related stuff here, so feel free to skip if that’s not your thing. I promise that’s not the only thing I’m going to talk about...
