Archive • tired animals in inappropriate clothing • Buttondown

"Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance."

For some reason, I end up writing about cricket once every 5 years. The last time I did this, I had several slides that relied heavily on the inherent...

"It's like tying your hair to a nail in the wall and trying to pretend that you are free and you can go and sit somewhere else"

In the middle of Black folks talking about racism, about systemic discrimination, about their policy proposals for how exactly white supremacist structures...

"Sometimes soccer is a pleasure that hurts"

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, of course, but there are ethical lines that we all eventually end up drawing because we need to be able to...

"That is very considerate of you. I like to be warned."

Words have been harder than ever recently, so I hope this comic will suffice. Drawing has been easier than writing, something that’s never been true for me...

“I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop.”

Here’s what I spent the majority of my waking ours this week on: building a very simple call-and-response Discord bot that’s entirely filled with in-jokes....

"I found it easier to trail off in the middle of any sentence that seemed likely to reach a point."

About two weekends ago, my wife declared herself human soup and spent the entire day lounging around and refusing to do anything. We’ve had quite a few soup...

“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”

It’s not that I’ve been thinking about my mother more in the middle of a pandemic, it’s just that there are far more small absurdities that I wish I could...

"I don't need comforting, and I'm not particularly sad or sorry to be here, but if you'd like to come in and have some tea, you're welcome.”

If I recall correctly, it was during a birthday party when a well-meaning uncle asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I, as a very put-upon eight-...

"Either of you chaps coming over to school?"

I’m trying to take breaks from Twitter—a site that I love and hate in equal measure—because everyone is stuck inside and tempers are running particularly...

and another thing--

Whether Mr Seymour’s conscience ached or not, cannot, of course, be discovered. But he had certainly thought he heard a noise, and he had come to...